Patent ID: 6083302
Filing Date: 2000-07-04
Classification: B01D

Abstract:
A mist eliminator for reducing the concentration of droplets entrained in a gas stream flowing through a passage, between an inlet and an outlet, comprising:a plurality of mist eliminator vanes held in parallel alignment,wherein each vane has an inlet side and an outlet side, each vane includes two passes and a trailing edge at the outlet side, the length of the trailing edge is of sufficient length in the direction of gas flow to intersect the trajectories of drops reentrained off of upstream vane surfaces, said trailing edge having a length in the direction of gas flow of from 100 to 250% of the width of the vane transverse to the direction of the gas flow, and adjacent vanes are spaced so that a peak formed by the intersection of the two passes of one fits within a trough formed by the intersection of the two passes of the other.