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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 26, 1978
Filed:
Jul. 18, 1977
Applicant:
Inventor:
Floyd Leon Prestridge, Tulsa, OK (US);
Assignee:
Combustion Engineering, Inc., Windsor, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B03C / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
204188 ; 204302 ; 210 / ; 210 84 ; 210243 ; 2105 / ;
Abstract
Fluids are separated from each other by passing their mixture through an electric field and centrifuge in sequence. The drops of a first fluid dispersed in a second fluid are coalesced by the force of an electric field to a predetermined size. The mixture is then passed into a centrifuge which develops the force to move the coalesced drops away from the other fluids of the mixture without reaching the value at which fluid shear forces, between the coalesced fluid and the fluid in which the coalesced fluid is dispersed, will fragment the coalesced drops.