| 摘要 |
<p>A separator for removing water from a lower density liquid fuel has a generally circular cross-section container with co-axual downwardly open outlet conduit that includes a potion widening towards the bottom entry opening. An inlet (24) above the widening portion of the conduit (30) directs a liquid flow obliquely downwards and radially offset from the conduit to generate a rotational flow promoting separation of the denser water fraction from the fuel. Smaller water droplets that drift down the outer surface of the outlet conduit because they are less influenced by centrifugal forces, are collected in an upturned lip (40) at the bottom edge of the conduit. There they coalesce into larger drops that can fall through the outlet flow to the bottom of the container. A shield (60) in the container lower region limits the entrainment of remaining smaller droplets from that lower region into the outlet flow.</p> |
