| 20080282656 | ROTATING FILAMENT SEPARATOR - In accordance with the present invention, a filter with rotating filaments, also referred to herein as a rotating filament separator, collects solid and liquid particulates in a gas stream. The filaments rotate at a high speed in a plane that is approximately perpendicular to the direction of flow of the gas stream. The rotating filaments collect particulates suspended in the gas stream through the impaction of the particulates onto the rotating filaments. In particular, the rotating filaments can collect particulates through impaction by changing the velocity of the flow of the particulates from a velocity with a direction that is approximately perpendicular to the plane of rotation of the rotating filaments to a velocity with a radial direction that is approximately parallel to the plane of rotation of the rotating filaments. In one preferred embodiment, the particulates attain a radial velocity flow, in a highly-concentrated, low-volume-flow aerosol stream, to an air-swept, circumferential chamber. | 11-20-2008 |
