GAS CENTRIFUGE Russian patent published in 2001 - IPC

FIELD: equipment for continuous separation of mixture of gases in field of centrifugal forces, particularly, high-speed gas centrifuge. SUBSTANCE: gas centrifuge includes body with cover, rotor provided with lower support and upper magnetic support containing ferromagnetic bushing fastened to rotor cover and cylindrical axially magnetized magnet with pole piece installed on body cover above bushing. Rotor accommodates gas header consisting of fixed tubes supplying gas mixture and withdrawing gas fraction and tubes selecting heavy and light fractions. Magnet has fixing mark indicating direction of displacement of magnetic field of magnet pole piece system relative to geometric axis of the latter. Made on upper end of gas header is groove located on the same straight line with header axis and square to straight line running through header axis and inlet hole of gas fraction selecting tube. EFFECT: higher accuracy of centering of header with selecting tubes relative to rotor wall resulting in increased separating capacity of centrifuge. 4 dwg