A turbine engine having a compressor section, a combustor section, a turbine section, and a rotatable drive shaft that couples a portion of the turbine section and a portion of the compressor section. A bypass conduit couples the compressor section to the turbine section while bypassing at least the combustion section. At least one particle separator is located in the turbine engine having a separator inlet that receives a bypass stream, a separator outlet that receives a reduced-particle stream flows, and a particle outlet that receives a concentrated-particle stream comprising separated particles. A conduit, fluidly coupled to the particle outlet, extends through an interior of at least one stationary vane.

A turbine engine having an inducer assembly. The inducer assembly includes a centrifugal separator fluidly coupled to an inducer with an inducer inlet and an inducer outlet. The centrifugal separator includes a body, an angular velocity increaser to form a concentrated-particle stream and a reduced-particle stream, a flow splitter, and an exit conduit fluidly coupled to the body to receive the reduced-particle stream and define a separator outlet.

A method of separating a fluid includes adding a fluid to a canister of a fluid separator. The canister includes first and second barriers disposed concentrically within the canister that define a first and second annulus within the canister, and a canister rotor having a first magnet associated therewith. The method includes rotating an induction base rotor disposed within an induction base. The induction base rotor includes a second magnet. The canister rotor and the induction base rotor are magnetically coupled and rotating the induction base rotor causes the canister rotor to rotate. The method further includes forming a vortex in the fluid via the rotation of the canister rotor, and the vortex causes the fluid to separate into a first component and a second component.

An air pre-cleaner spin tube includes a vaned inlet section including an inlet flange, and an outer tube inlet portion including an outer wall forming a nozzle that defines a radial direction, and a longitudinal axis. Also, a central stem is disposed in the nozzle, and a plurality of vanes extends from the central stem to the outer wall.

A centrifugal liquid separating system broadly comprises an insert cartridge including a housing, an inlet, one or more flow guides, a stator, a compression nozzle, an expansion nozzle, and an outlet. The flow guides guide liquid flowing into the inlet past the stator into the compression nozzle. The stator induces a rotational vortex into the liquid flow. Liquid with heavier particles in the liquid flow is urged to the outside of the rotational vortex. Liquid with lighter particles and cleaner liquid is urged to the inside of the rotational vortex. The compression nozzle and the expansion nozzle are aligned to cooperatively form an annular liquid channel. The liquid with the heavier particles flows through the annular liquid channel and the liquid with the lighter particles and the cleaner liquid flows to the expansion nozzle to the outlet.

A system and method for enhancing separation of a denser phase liquid from a lighter phase liquid within a multiphase stream. In one example, a cyclonic coalescer has a tubular housing and a plurality of coaxial flow chambers extending in the axial direction of the housing. A swirling element is associated with each of the plurality of coaxial flow chambers. The swirling elements are constructed and arranged to impart a tangential velocity of the stream flowing through the associated flow chamber.

The invention relates to an air filtration bank (100) and an air filtration system (50) for removing grit or impurities from an airstream using a plurality of cyclonic air classifiers (10) arranged in 2×2 arrays in each air filtration bank (100). The system (50) comprises a plurality of interconnected, modular air filtration banks (100) arranged side-by-side and a grit collecting chute (5). In order to improve airflow efficiency and particle separation, each cyclonic air classifier (10) includes a vortex-inducing inlet duct (13), an extraction pipe (16) and a conical diffuser (15). The conical diffusers (15) of upper and lower cyclonic air classifiers are of different lengths such that their respective waste outlets are not coplanar which serves to limit waste outlet flow interference and results in less pressure drop across the air filtration bank, which in turn leads to more efficient particle removal.

The present invention relates to a method of cleaning solids to be free of, or separating solids from, viscous materials and in some cases other solids such as, but not limited to resins and other coatings, foreign debris, clays, silts, contaminated water or chemicals and in other cases separating some liquids form some other liquids. Also disclosed are systems to accomplish such.

Provided is a cyclonic fluid separator, method of fluid separation, and a method of installing a cyclonic fluid separator. The cyclonic fluid separator includes a throat portion arranged between a converging fluid inlet section and a diverging fluid outlet section including an inner primary outlet for condensables depleted fluid components and an outer secondary outlet for condensables enriched fluid components. A central body extends along a central axis of the cyclonic fluid separator through at least part of the inlet section of the separator. The central body has, at a location upstream of the throat portion, a larger outer width than a smallest inner width of the throat portion; swirl imparting means arranged in the inlet section for creating a swirling motion of the fluid within at least part of the separator. The swirl imparting means are adjustable; and an adjusting mechanism configured for adjusting the swirl imparting means for varying the swirling motion of the fluid.

The present disclosure generally relates to separating solid particles from an airflow in a gas turbine engine. A system for separating debris includes a first separation device in fluid communication with an inlet flow path of a compressor and a second separation device in fluid communication with an outlet flow path of the compressor and an inlet flow path of a combustor. The first separation device is adapted to remove coarse particles from the airflow. The second separation device is adapted to remove fine particles from the airflow. The course particles have a larger mean particle diameter than the fine particles.