US2291117A - Centrifugal separator - Google Patents

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US2291117A
US2291117A US311529A US31152939A US2291117A US 2291117 A US2291117 A US 2291117A US 311529 A US311529 A US 311529A US 31152939 A US31152939 A US 31152939A US 2291117 A US2291117 A US 2291117A
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George J Strezynski
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    • B04—CENTRIFUGAL APPARATUS OR MACHINES FOR CARRYING-OUT PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES
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    • B04B1/00—Centrifuges with rotary bowls provided with solid jackets for separating predominantly liquid mixtures with or without solid particles
    • B04B1/10—Centrifuges with rotary bowls provided with solid jackets for separating predominantly liquid mixtures with or without solid particles with discharging outlets in the plane of the maximum diameter of the bowl
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  • a centrifugal separator bowl comprising a number of separating chambers radiating from a common center, the separating chambers being in pairs, the two members of which are arranged diametrically opposite each other.
  • the inner end of each chamber is of rectangular cross section, which merges into an outer conical section.
  • Opposite chambers of each pair are rigidly connected together.
  • centrifuges constructed in accordance with this invention can safely operate at a speed of rotation much higher than within the maximum safe limit of rotation of a cylindrical bowl, that the bursting stress is much reduced and that the clarifying effect, the storage volume and the throughput greatly exceed that of a cylindrical bowl.
  • the invention is adapted to the separation of any constituents of different specific gravities, one of its most useful applications is the separation of fine solids from a liquid or liquids of lower specific gravity than the solids, the outer end of the outer conical part of each separating chamber being fitted with a removable tip containing a small orifice, which is alternately opened and closed by a needle valve operable by suitable mechanism.
  • the improved construction hereinafter described permits ready access to the bowl, enables the bowl to be made as heavy as desired and with a wall of varying cross-section without increasing the cost, maintains the bowl perfectly balanced while in operation, permits the separating chamber to extend inward nearer the axis of rotation, and simplifies the construction; all without sacrifice of, and indeed with measurable enhancement of, the advantages characterizing the earlier bowl, namely: high speed operation, resistance to bursting stress, superior clarifying effect and great storage volume and throughput.
  • the solids In utilizing a separator bowl for the separation of solids from liquids, the solids, in many cases, are in the form of a wet sludge, which it has been found necessary to dry in several steps.
  • the preliminary drying is done in settling tanks, presses, or centrifugal machines. After such preliminary drying the sludge contains anywhere between to 90% moisture. This remaining moisture is usually evaporated in rotary dryers. However, it is found that in rotary dryers, if the moisture content of the sludge is more than about such sludge will lump in the" dryers and clog the moving parts of the dryer. Therefore, it is highly desirable that the sludge going through the dryer shall contain less than 75% moisture.
  • Another object of my invention is to increase the dryness of the sludge discharged from the chamber that receives the fine solids discharged from the bowl. This I have done by making changes in the external construction of the centrifugal bowl and in providing for its agitation and aeration in said chamber, from which it is discharged with a moisture content sufliciently low to avoid the necessity of an intermediate drying step; that is, the sludge is in condition to go from the receiving chamber around the centrifugal bowl direct to the final (rotary) dryers.
  • the bowl has a central shaft a, whiclrmay be supported and rotated by any suitable means including those known in the art.
  • My improved bowl is preferably of the type in which the shaft a is suspended and driven from above and has an axial feed passage b through which the mixture to be separated is fed to the bowl.
  • the separating spaces of the bowl are formed of a number of chambers c radiating from a common center.
  • the chambers are arranged in pairs,
  • the two chambers of a pair being located diaever, thick-walled separating chambers of a suitmetrically opposite the bowls axis. Any even number of chambers is practicable, but a bowl comprising three pairs of chambers, comprising in all six chambers whose radial axes are located 60 apart, is preferred.
  • each separating chamber 0 extends in a plane at right angles to the axis of the bowl, their inner extremities being located inside, that is. nearer to the bowls axis than, the light separated constituent outlet.
  • the inner ends of the side walls of each chamber are also preferably fiat, their up and down direction of extension being vertical, that is, parallel with thebowl's axis.
  • the inner ends of the side walls are preferably not parallel but diverge somewhat toward the bowls axis. Nor do the side walls extend inward as far as the upper and lower walls, their innerextremities being outside the inner zone of the separating space of the bowl,
  • each separating chamber c merge into outer sections which are circular in cross-section, the width of the chamber sharplydiminishing toward its outer end, the outer portion of the chamber being therefore conical.
  • the outer extremity of eachv separating chamber has a cylindrical neck with an internal screw thread and aninner shoulder and held therein by a nut dis a removable tip c having a small orifice through which the separated solids are discharged.
  • the central bowl supporting and driving shaft a carries six radial tubes i which connect, through radial holes in the wall of the feed shaft, with the feed passage b. These tubes open. into the separating zone of the bowl at a substantial distance beyond the light liquid outlet tubes q.
  • the feed tubes f correspond in number to the number of separating chambers c and are preferably located along the imaginary dividing line between the chambers. Thus each the separating chambers to be comparatively heavy.
  • A. heavy bowl is essential to secure proper balancing during operation. In a light bowl slightly unequal contents ofdirt in the several chambers efiect a pronounced unbalance.
  • each plate I Secured to the outer edge of each plate I: is a shield i which extends down to the peripheral outlets of the separating bowl. These shields reduce air resistance to rotation and prevent entry of fine solids into the irregular spaces between the separating chambers and the outer ends of the plates h.
  • the separating chambers may be further reinforced by means of plates k extending between the plates h. h and engaging the outer wall of the bowl at the Junction between'adjacent side walls of adjacent separating chambers.
  • the plates is may be held against vertical displacement away from the separating chambers c by portions of the reinforcing plates is extending through holes in the plates and fitted with nuts h".
  • the stationary framework shown provides an inner annular chamber 0 for the reception of the fine solids discharged from the peripheral feed tube f'supplies two chambers.
  • the light annular chamber m which receives the separated light liquid discharged from the tubes 0, the liquid escaping from the chamber or through openings 11 to a locus of collection (not shown).
  • the fine solids in chamber 0 escape through openings 9 to another locus of collection (not shown).
  • levers s Pivoted to brackets on the bowl shaft are levers s. Each lever is pivoted between its ends, one free end enga ing a slotr' in the inner end of the corresponding rod 1' and the other end abutting against a pin t extending through the annular wall of the bowl shaft.
  • the inner end of pin t is tubular in form and carries a ball 1:. engageable with the outer frusto-conical shaped wall of a block 12 having an overhanging head '10 and rotatable with the shaft (1.
  • the lower end of the block is hollow to enclose a ball bearing between it and the reduced circular upper end of a short member y being a. universal joint connectionwith a connecting rod z.
  • This chamber is provided with a dry air inlet l2 and air outlets l3.
  • Wings or vanes I4 on the lower plate h of the centrifugal bowl suck air from the room, or heated air, or any other drying medium, and blow it through the sludge chamber 0 at the same time that the sludge is being discharged in a finely atomized spray from the centrifugal bowl.
  • This sludge drops to the bottom of the chamber it is picked up by the fan-like rotors I5 (driven from pulleys IS) in the lower part of the chamber and scattered through the chamber for additional aeration and drying.
  • the drying means described is effective in increasing the dryness of the sludge by about so that its moisture content is safely below that required for introduction to the final dryers.
  • a centrifugal separator bowl comprising a central driving shaft, a set of separate comparatively thin-walled separating chambers having different radially extending axes spaced arcuately equal distances apart around the axis of the bowl, said chambers being located adjacent one to another at equal distances from the bowls axis, each of the said chambers being adapted to be filled with and enclose a body of liquid while its outer surface is, except as hereinafter specified, exposed to the atmosphere, and, concentric with the bowls axis, comparatively thick-walled heavy annular plates respectively overlying and underlying the set of separating chambers and between which the separating chambers are secured.
  • a centrifugal separator bowl as defined in claim 1 in which only the inner end portions of the separating chambers are secured as defined while the outer ends of the separating chambers are unsupported and of conical cross-section and v are provided at their reduced peripheral ends with escape orifices.
  • a centrifugal separator bowl as defined in claim 1 in which only the inner end portions of the separating chambers are secured as defined while the'outer ends of the separating chambers are unsupported and of conical cross-section and are provided at their reduced peripheral ends with escape orifices, and comprising also annular shields extending from the outer ends of the plates radially outward and axially toward the plane of peripheral discharge of the separating chambers and closing ,the spaces between said wardly extending shoulders and the thick-walled plates and the said separating chamber walls.
  • a centrifugalseparator bowl as defined in claim 1 in which the inner end portions of the separating chambers are rectangular in crosssection and their outer portions circular in crosssection and which the said plates engage only the upper and lower walls of the rectangular inner portions of the separating chambers.
  • a centrifugal separator bowl as defined in claim 1 in which the upper and lower walls of the separating chambers extend inwardly toward the bowls axis substantially further than the side walls of the separating chambers, andcomprising also light liquid discharge outlets located at a radial-distance from the bowls axis greater than the radial distance from the bowls axis of the inner ends of the upper and lower walls of the separating chambers but smaller than the radial distance from the bowls axis of the inner ends of the side walls of said chamber.
  • a centrifugal separator bowl as defined in claim 1 in which the upper and lower walls of the separating chambers extend inwardly toward the bowls axis substantially further than the side walls of the separating chambers, and comprising also inlets for the mixture to be separated located at a "radial distance from the bowls axis substantially greater than the radial distance from the bowls axis of the inner ends of the upper and lower walls of the separating chambers but smaller than the radial distance from the bowls axis of the inner ends of the side walls of said chamber.
  • a centrifugal separator bowl as defined in claim 1 in which the upper and lower walls of the separating chambers extend inwardly toward the bowls axis substantially further than the side walls of the separating chambers, and comprising also inlets for the mixture to be separated located at a radial distance from the bowls axis substantially greater than the radial distance from the bowls axisof the inner ends of the upper and lower walls of the separating chambers but smaller than the radial distance from the bowls axis of the inner ends of the side walls of said chamber, said inlets comprising tubes each extending along a radius dividing adjacent separating chambers and directlyieeding both chambers.
  • central driving shalt a number or comparatively thin-walled adjacent separating chambers hav-l thick-walled plates and ensasins the outer wall oi the bowl at the Junctions between adjacent separating chambers.
  • a centriiugal separating bowl comprising a central driving shalt, a number of separating chambers supported from, and extending radially of. the shaft and spaced uniformly around the shaft. said chambers having conical outer ends provided with peripheral discharge orifices.
  • valve rods one for each orifice, a block having a conical outer wall extending into the hollow interior of the bowl shai't, radially movable pins extending through the wall or the drive shaft, levers operable by said pins and thereby adapted to retract said valve rods and thereby open said orifices, said block being rotatable with the drive shait, and non-rotatable mechanism connected with said block and adapted to move said block axially within the drive shaft and thereby move said pins in a radially outward direction and thereby effect the retraction of the valve rods. 7 e 12.
  • a centrifugal separator bowl comprising-a central driving shaft, a set of separate comparatively thin-walled radially extending separating 10.
  • a centrifugal separator bowl comprising a .bowls axis and respectively overlying and underlying and contacting with the upper and lower walls of the set oi separating chambers and between which'the separating'chambers are secured
  • a centrifugal separator in accordance with claim 1 in which the said annular plates respectively overlying and underlying the separating chambers directly contact with only the inner portions 01' the upper and lower walls of the separating chambers.

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US2488746A (en) * 1946-03-16 1949-11-22 Laval Separator Co De Centrifuge with centrifugally flushed filter
US2616621A (en) * 1949-10-20 1952-11-04 Laval Separator Co De Valve system for centrifuges
US3409215A (en) * 1966-06-20 1968-11-05 Beloit Corp Continuous centrifuge
US5188583A (en) * 1990-08-03 1993-02-23 Jean Guigan Apparatus for separating two phases of a sample of heterogeneous liquid by centrifuging, the apparatus being particularly suitable for separating plasma from whole blood
US20080005478A1 (en) * 2006-06-30 2008-01-03 Seagate Technology Llc Dynamic adaptive flushing of cached data
US20110263405A1 (en) * 2010-04-22 2011-10-27 Specialist Process Technologies Limited Separator
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US2488746A (en) * 1946-03-16 1949-11-22 Laval Separator Co De Centrifuge with centrifugally flushed filter
US2616621A (en) * 1949-10-20 1952-11-04 Laval Separator Co De Valve system for centrifuges
US3409215A (en) * 1966-06-20 1968-11-05 Beloit Corp Continuous centrifuge
US5188583A (en) * 1990-08-03 1993-02-23 Jean Guigan Apparatus for separating two phases of a sample of heterogeneous liquid by centrifuging, the apparatus being particularly suitable for separating plasma from whole blood
US20080005478A1 (en) * 2006-06-30 2008-01-03 Seagate Technology Llc Dynamic adaptive flushing of cached data
US20110263405A1 (en) * 2010-04-22 2011-10-27 Specialist Process Technologies Limited Separator
WO2014158836A3 (fr) * 2013-03-14 2015-01-08 DePuy Synthes Products, LLC Concentrateur de moelle osseuse
CN105143881A (zh) * 2013-03-14 2015-12-09 德普伊新特斯产品公司 骨髓浓缩器

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