Patent ID: 8182591
Filing Date: 2012-05-22
Classification: B01D,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A dryer unit for compressed air and other gaseous media, comprising: a housing, which has an inlet for air to be dried and an outlet for dried air, an exchanger unit, which has a multiplicity of hollow membrane fibres, the ends of which are fixed, open, in two holding plates which, together with the housing, delimit an inlet-side head space and an outlet-side head space, a purging air space, connected to the outer surfaces of the membrane fibres via a throttle bore, having a purging air inlet and a purging air outlet and being charged with part of the dried air, wherein the outlet-side head space is connected to the outlet via an outlet valve and a cyclone is connected upstream of the inlet-side head space and wherein the housing is vertically oriented and the cyclone is arranged on the lower end of the vertically oriented housing.