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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 13, 2001
Filed:
Jan. 07, 2000
Randall S. Bradley, Ellicott City, MD (US);
Evapco International, Inc., Wilmington, DE (US);
Abstract
A cellular drift eliminator for removing mist from a mist-laden gas stream includes a plurality of blades with a spacer element interspersed between every two blades. Both the blades and spacer elements have a longitudinally undulating shape with at least one undulation transverse to the direction of travel of the stream passing through the eliminator. Each spacer element has corrugations oriented transverse to the spacer element undulation. Each corrugation has two side walls connecting a flattened apex extending from the front face of the spacer elements and a flattened valley extending from the rear face of the spacer element. Each spacer element has flat planar portions formed at its lower edge in the regions of the flattened apices and valleys of the corrugations and cut portions extending from the lower edge in the regions of the side walls of the corrugations. At least some portions of the flattened apices and valleys of the corrugations of each spacer element are bonded to respective bonding portions of the rear face of a first adjacent blade and the front face of a second adjacent blade.