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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 1993
Filed:
May. 23, 1991
Applicant:
Inventor:
Paul L Wilcox, Haugesund, NO;
Assignees:
Total Compagnie Francaise des Petroles, Paris, FR;
Den Norske Stats Oljeselskap AS, Stavanger, NO;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
F15D / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
138 44 ; 138 40 ; 138 39 ; 428596 ;
Abstract
A rectifier for establishing a flat fluid flow velocity profile in a pipe 16 is composed of a bundle of cylindrical tubes 12 of the same diameter and length, assembled to form a cylindrical block 10 having a diameter equal to the interior diameter of the pipe and having a honeycomb section. The interstices 18 remaining between the tubes of a median ring r.sub.2 are filled with a suitable filling material, while those 20 between the tubes of an outer ring r.sub.1 and those in a central zone r.sub.3 of the rectifier are left open.