Patent ID: 8685205

Claim:
A flash tank comprising: at least one wall defining a rounded interior chamber bounded by a top elliptical head opposite to a bottom elliptical head; an inlet nozzle operatively engaged to the rounded interior chamber; a vortex breaker operatively engaged to the bottom elliptical head; a liquid discharge port operatively engaged to the bottom elliptical head below a center of the vortex breaker; a steam chamber comprising: a gas inlet nozzle, an upper steam chamber and a lower steam chamber contiguous with the upper steam chamber, wherein the upper steam chamber is operatively engaged to the bottom of the top elliptical head and the upper steam chamber engages a steam input port that communicates with the rounded interior chamber, the lower steam chamber comprising: an area defining an open space between the upper steam chamber and the lower steam chamber, a plurality of partially overlapping baffles operatively engaged to at least one wall defining the lower steam chamber; an angled floor operatively engaged to the at least one wall defining the bottom of the lower steam chamber; a conduit with a first end engaged to the angled floor and a second end engaged to the vortex breaker; a gas discharge port operatively engaged to the lower steam chamber; and a hatch operatively engaged to the angled floor defining the bottom of the lower steam chamber.