Apparatus and process for solids-fluid separation

Abstract From the Canadian patent

Apparatus suitable for solids-fluid separation (e.g. cracking catalyst/flue gas) comprising a housing provided with outside first stage separation means comprising feed inlet means which cooperate substantially tangentially with a hollow body having solids outlet means in the lower section and fluid outlet means in the upper section communicating with a plurality of annular inlet means of second stage separation means inside the housing Which annular, inlet means are provided with swirl imparting means and are defined between the upper sections of a plurality of tubular elements and tubular fluid outlet means of which the lower sections are arranged substantially co-axially within said …