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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:
May. 27, 1986
Filed:
Aug. 30, 1984
Applicant:
Inventors:
Johan J Pek, Amsterdam, NL;
Hubertus J Schuurmans, Amsterdam, NL;
Assignee:
Shell Oil Company, Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B01D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
55344 ; 55347 ; 55452 ;
Abstract
Horizontal gas/liquid separator comprising a vessel having a gas inlet with a gas inlet channel and a gas outlet with a gas outlet channel. The channels are separated from one another by a horizontal gas/liquid separation zone provided with swirl tubes. To obtain a uniform gas/liquid distribution over the swirl tubes, these swirl tubes are provided with primary gas outlet tubes with different cross sectional areas depending on their location relative to the gas outlet.