Patent ID: 8123838
Filing Date: 2012-02-28
Classification: B01D,B04B

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for separating particles from a fluid-particle stream, comprising: a housing with fluid-particle inlet and a fluid outlet; a hollow rotating collector within the housing; an axially-coincident vane assembly within the hollow collector, the vane assembly and an interior surface of the hollow collector defining a fluid-particle flow path from the fluid-particle inlet to the fluid outlet to direct flow of the stream radially outward to an interior surface of the hollow rotating collector and direct flow of the stream radially inward from the interior surface of the rotating hollow collector while impacting the rotating collector with particles, such that impacted particles move rotationally about a central axis of the rotating collector; and an inside radial dimension and rotational speed of the rotating collector apply a force to the impacted particles in excess of 4 times the force of the Earth's gravity.