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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 1981
Filed:
Feb. 02, 1981
Applicant:
Inventors:
Floyd L Prestridge, Mounds, OK (US);
Ronald L Longwell, Boise, ID (US);
Assignee:
Combustion Engineering, Inc., Windsor, CT (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B01D / ; C10G / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
204302 ; 204188 ;
Abstract
A plurality of electrostatic fields is arranged to progressively separate the liquids from their emulsions having a low dielectric strength. The emulsions are first passed through one of the electrostatic fields between insulated electrodes. With the breaking of the emulsion begun by the first electrostatic field, the emulsion is next flowed in an electrostatic field between uninsulated electrodes. The final stage is the passing of the almost completely broken emulsion through an electrostatic field between electrodes which are arranged to systematically degrade their field.