Apparatus for the separation of dispersed materials of identical phase in a moving medium

• Main Authors: DR MIKLOS ORTUTAY, DR JOZSEF GREGA
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 09.03.1983
• Subjects: CHEMICAL OR PHYSICAL PROCESSES, e.g. CATALYSIS OR COLLOIDCHEMISTRY; OTHER SEPARATING BY DRY METHODS APPLICABLE TO BULK MATERIAL,e.g. LOOSE ARTICLES FIT TO BE HANDLED LIKE BULK MATERIAL; PERFORMING OPERATIONS; PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL; SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SEPARATION; SEPERATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS BY SIEVING, SCREENING, ORSIFTING OR BY USING GAS CURRENTS; SORTING; THEIR RELEVANT APPARATUS; TRANSPORTING

A gravitational-counterflow separating apparatus in which a particulate mass is separated into fractions in a counter-flowing fluid seperating medium is formed of a number of interconnected hollow units 1 arranged one above the other. Each unit has an inlet opening a at one end and an outlet opening b at the other end for the separating medium and has at least one maximum cross sectional area c between the inlet opening a and the outlet opening b to provide an expanding space adjacent the inlet opening a and a contracting space adjacent the outlet opening b. The units are either directly connected to one another with the outlet opening b of one unit adjoining the inlet opening a of the next unit above, or they are interconnected through distance pieces.