CENTRIFUGAL SEPARATOR WITH ADDITIVE MEANS

摘要

A centrifugal separator and method for separating contaminants from contaminated oil and for supplying an oil additive to the oil. The centrifugal separator has a shroud which defines a first chamber and has a hollow rotor rotatably mounted in the first chamber and defining a second chamber. Oil under pressure is admitted to the second chamber and flows into the first through tangential reaction nozzles in the rotor to cause contaminants to migrate toward the sidewall of the second chamber under the influence of centrifugal force. An oil additive block is positioned in the first chamber in the path of oil issuing from the nozzles. The block comprises an oil additive dispersed in a binder matrix and the oil additive is ablated by and mixed with the oil issuing from the nozzles.