APPARATUS FOR CLEANING GAS Russian patent published in 1997 - IPC

FIELD: gas purification. SUBSTANCE: vertical cylindrical casing of apparatus for cleaning oil gas from liquid impurities provided with tangential inlet pipe, gas outlet pipe, liquid withdrawal fitting, and horizontal barrier is supplemented by rotor made of coaxially installed, in spaced relation to each other, perforated barrel, continuous shell, and perforated shell. Shells abut, respectively, on outer and inner diameters of annular tray installed under the shells. Annular tray has drain pipe and is inclined toward the side of it. Impurities passed through barrel perforations into rotor space are forced by centrifugal force through perforations in shell, flow down into annular tray and are discharged into casing space through drain pipe. EFFECT: enhanced cleaning process. 2 cl, 1 dwg