Improved Means for Separating Oil and Water from Steam.
Year: 1894

page_text: Date of Application, 21st June, 1891-Accepted, 15th Aug., 1894
COMPLETE SPECIFICATION.
Improved Means for Separating Oil and Water from Steam.
1, EUGENE AUSTIN, of 651 Fourth Avenue, Detroit, Michigan, United States
of America, Mechanical Engineer, do hereby declare the nature of this invention
and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described
and ascertained in and by the following statement:-
My invention relates to improvements in devices for separating oil and water
from steam, and is shown in the accompanying drawings, in which :-
Figure 1, is a longitudinal sectional view on line Figure 2, and
Figure 2, is a view partly in elevation and partly in transverse section.
In the drawings, A is the outer wall of the separator, B is a deep depression from
the top, which forms deflecting surfaces B1 and B2 on the interior. The inner
deflecting surfaces are provided with diagonal corrugations b, b. C is a diaphragm
forming a false bottom. This bottom C is concaved, and provided with a line of
openings ce running lengthwise. These openings are elongated and adapted to catch
the water and oil and allow the same to pass.
The inner surfaces are provided with corrugations a a. These corrugations may
be arranged in any form wherein they would lead down to the openings c c. In the
form shown herein I make them diagonal so that they lie across the path of the
moving steam.
D is the steam inlet, and D' the steam outlet, the course of the steam being
shown by the arrows. E is the discharge opening for oil and water. F is a
chamber formed between the false bottom and the case.
The operation of my device is as follows. It is inserted in the line of pipe
conveying the steam to be dried. The saturated steam entering at D, is projected
against the surface B' and deflected downward, a portion of the oil and water
with which it is saturated being carried by reason of its weight, against and
collected on the surface. The oil and water collected here are conducted to the
sides by the diagonal corrugations bb. The steam is next forced against the false
bottom C and caused to sweep along its surface lengthwise of the separator and in
a curved line. The centrifugal force causes the oil and water remaining to seek
the bottom where it is held by the transverse corrugations a a, and conducted by
them to the openings c c. The false bottom thus serves as a skimmer, collecting
the oil and water and allowing the same to pass to the chamber F, from which they
are drawn off through the outlet E.
The advantages of the false bottom, with the line of perforations, over a single
bottom with a single opening, is that it overcomes the liability of the steam sweep-
ing the oil and water past the discharge opening. The chamber F is also provided
in which the oil and water can accumulate without danger of being swept or lifted
out of the device.
Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said
invention and in what manner the same is to be performed I declare that what
I claim is
:-
1. In a separator, a deflecting steam passage, a false bottom at the turn of the
passage, the said false bottom being provided with openings, corrugations on the
walls of the passage leading to the openings, and a chamber below the false bottom,
substantially as described

page_text: 2. In a separator, a deflecting steam passage, a false bottom at the turn of the
passage, the said false bottom being provided with clongated cross openings,
corrugations on the walls of the passage leading to the openings, and a chamber
below the false bottom, substantially as described.
Dated the 21st dat of June 1901
D. YOUNG & Co.,
11 and 12, Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.,
Agents for the Applicant.