Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Two-phase separator device for removing condensate or particulate from a gas stream
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Application No.: US16948052Application Date: 2020-08-28
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Publication No.: US11433337B2Publication Date: 2022-09-06
- Inventor: Thomas Cognata , Brittany Lynn Zimmerman
- Applicant: Paragon Space Development Corporation
- Applicant Address: US AZ Tucson
- Assignee: Paragon Space Development Corporation
- Current Assignee: Paragon Space Development Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US AZ Tucson
- Agency: Weaver Austin Villeneuve & Sampson LLP
- Main IPC: B01D59/26
- IPC: B01D59/26 ; B01D45/14 ; B01D45/04 ; B01D45/18 ; B01D47/06 ; B01D50/40

Abstract:
This disclosure provides a two-phase separator device for separating condensate or particulate from a gas stream. In some implementations, the separator device removes water from air and may operate under micro-gravity conditions. The gas stream flows through the two-phase separator device and passes through a rotatable vane assembly along a flow path without being redirected in another flow path. Condensate or particulate in the gas stream is impacted by a plurality of vanes of the rotatable vane assembly, and the condensate is captured by features formed within the plurality of vanes. The captured condensate is accelerated radially outwardly along the each of the plurality of vanes towards a sloped inner wall, and further moved along the sloped inner wall in a direction against the flow path of the gas stream during rotation.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210060467A1 TWO-PHASE SEPARATOR DEVICE FOR REMOVING CONDENSATE OR PARTICULATE FROM A GAS STREAM Public/Granted day:2021-03-04
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