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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 17, 1996
Filed:
Jan. 30, 1996
Otto M Ilg, Asheville, NC (US);
Jeffrey S Dugan, Asheville, NC (US);
BASF Corporation, Mt. Olive, NJ (US);
Abstract
A method of separating two or more immiscible components from a multicomponent fluid stream thereof involves passing the stream through one or more separation chambers of a plate-type separator. The separator contains at least one separator flow plate, each of which has formed on a common facial surface thereof at least one separation chamber containing at least one inlet means, a channel assembly in fluid communication with the inlet means, and a plurality of outlet means. The channel assembly contains at least one branched-channel structure composed of a main flow channel split at a downstream branch-point end thereof into at least two branching flow channels. The main flow channel is adapted to separate the multicomponent stream passing therethrough into a plurality of substantially discrete density-differing or viscosity-differing fluid phases. Each of the branching flow channels is adapted to receive one of the discrete phases. The discrete phases exit the branching flow channels through the outlet means.