Patent ID: 8826649

Claim:
An assembly comprising: a hollow conduit having an inner wall and configured for containing a flow of gas and liquid droplets; multiple spaced blades; an impingement element; wherein each of the blades is operatively connected to and extends from the impingement element and is connected to the inner wall of the conduit; wherein the impingement element is upstream of the blades in the flow of gas; wherein the impingement element and the blades are configured to create a preferred distribution of the liquid droplets within the gas flow downstream of the blades within the conduit; wherein each of the blades is directly connected to an adjacent one of the blades at an inner peripheral portion; wherein each of the blades has an outer peripheral portion directly connected to an outer peripheral portion of another adjacent one of the blades; wherein the impingement element has a generally cone-shaped surface facing the flow of gas and tapering radially outward downstream and wherein the impingement element has a generally central opening creating an axial flow region in the flow of gas that is unobstructed by the blades.