摘要 |
<p>Cylone separator for separating a fluid into a gas phase and a liquid phase, which comprises a vertically oriented vessel with cylindrical symmetry and which has a gas phase outlet at the upper end of the vessel and a liquid phase outlet at the lower end of the vessel, at least one tangentially oriented fluid inlet 11 at the upper end below the gas phase outlet of the vessel, able to form a helical liquid flow 12 down along the internal wall of the vessel, a liquid extractor extracting liquid through the liquid phase outlet at a rate which forms a bulk liquid phase at the lower end of the vessel with a relatively constant height level of the bulk liquid-gas interphase 13, a gas extractor extracting gas through the gas phase outlet, wherein the cyclone separator comprises at least one flow velocity deflector 18 located at a level in proximity of the bulk liquid-gas interphase 13 which changes the vertical velocity component of a liquid film 12 travelling down the internal wall of the vessel to a horizontally oriented velocity component. A method of fluid separation is also disclosed. Preferably the deflector 18 is below the interphase 13 and two or more deflectors 18 may be positioned at different heights.</p> |