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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 05, 1978
Filed:
Jan. 03, 1977
Jean-Pierre Bimond, Pau, FR;
Flavien Lazarre, Pau, FR;
Societe Nationale Elf Aquitaine (Production), Paris, FR;
Abstract
Device for destroying foam, and especially the foam of drilling fluids, comprises a container provided with an inlet for gas under pressure, an inlet for foam, an outlet for separated liquids and an outlet for separated gas, and within which the gas under pressure is confined within a divergent conical first space having its smaller end at the inlet for pressurized gas, said conical space and the part of the internal surface of the container outside this member bounding a geometrically closed second space and in which the inlet for foam enters said container through that portion of the container wall which bounds said geometrically closed space.