Purifying lubricant during non-turbulent movement - between corrugated plate stacks with terminal diffusors providing multiple equal flows

摘要

Contaminated lubricant entering one end wall (9) of an elongated container moves slow controlled rate in the gaps between two stacks of corrugated plates (12). During such motion, water and solids from the lubricat deposit in the corrugation troughs to fall down the central interstack gap (14) towards the container floor (7), sloping down to a discharge channel. Air rises in the corrugations towards the container side walls and a space, with an outlet blower (3) above the lubricant surface. The spaces between the container end walls (9,16) and inward polarisation plates with fine mesh filter surfaces hold diffusions (20,24). Each diffusor has a set of parallel plates, with a central aperture in all but the last, and whose effect is to divide the incoming/outgoing lubricant movement into a number of partial streams all with the same vol. ADVANTAGE - Minimising internal tubulence improves sepn. of water, air and solids from the lubricant.