US Patent Issued to ALFA LAVAL CORPORATE on Jan. 20 for "Centrifugal separator having ring with outlet flow restrictions" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,528,091, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to ALFA LAVAL CORPORATE AB (Lund, Sweden).

"Centrifugal separator having ring with outlet flow restrictions" was invented by Leonard Borgstrom (Tyreso, Sweden) and Olle Tornblom (Farosund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A centrifugal separator for clarification of a liquid mixture into a heavy phase and a light phase, having a centrifugal separator bowl rotatable around an axis and encasing a separation space, and a sludge space radially outward of said separation space. The centrifugal separator bowl includes a hermetic inlet for feeding a liquid mixture to said separation space; a first h...