US Patent Issued to Westinghouse Electric Germany on March 11 for "Steam boiler liquid separator and method for the production thereof" (Belgian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,732, issued on March 11, was assigned to Westinghouse Electric Germany GmbH (Mannheim, Germany).

"Steam boiler liquid separator and method for the production thereof" was invented by Francois Vandamme (Ecaussinnes, Belgium) and Albertus Kroes (Baulers, Belgium).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A steam boiler liquid separator having a plurality of liquid separator segments connected together to form a shaft disposed inside a pipe section, with swirl vanes disposed around the shaft. The liquid separator segments each include a shaft segment connected to a pipe segment by a swirl vane such that the shaft segment is disposed radially inwar...