Pair of reports describe scheme for separating liquid from gas so liquid could be pumped. Designed to operate in absence of gravitation. Jet of liquid, gas, or liquid/gas mixture fed circumferentially into cylindrical tank filled with liquid/gas mixture. Jet starts liquid swirling. Swirling motion centrifugally separates liquid from gas. Liquid then pumped from tank at point approximately diametrically opposite point of injection of jet. Vortex phase separator replaces such devices as bladders and screens. Requires no components inside tank. Pumps for gas and liquid outside tank and easily accessible for maintenance and repairs.
Separation Of Liquid And Gas In Zero Gravity
NASA Tech Briefs ; 15 , 10
1991-10-01
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Rotating finite liquid system under zero-gravity
Tema Archive | 1982
|A Hydrophobic-Hydrophilic Zero Gravity Liquid Gas Phase Separator
SAE Technical Papers | 1969
|Marangoni-convection in a liquid column in zero-gravity
TIBKAT | 1982
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