Water separator 2

[Txedes2012]

I am working in a pneumatic application where we want to avoid condensation to occur within the system.
The space I have is very very limited because the system goes assembled in an enclosure within other components.
The max pressure values are 30-40 psi and the flow is 3-5 l/min.

I have to design a simple system to separate the water, we don't want to use descant and any air dryer/water separator existing system I've checked is too big.
Since I need some exchange surface I was thinking about using corrugated tube but I don't know where to start from.
I would appreciate if somebody can give me some help.

Thank you!!!

 

[EdStainless]

Look up coalescing filters. They use a mesh material to trap entrained moisture from the air.

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[zdas04]

If you can get it to condense, coalescing filters can help but are not really necessary. Mechanical gas on gas separation/filtration is possible but it takes a bit of kit (think of the hundreds of acres of pipe that was required to separate uranium isotopes in gaseous form at Oak Ridge, TN during the Manhattan Project in WWII). You have to do it chemically or thermodynamicly. That means desiccant bed, some sort of cooled condenser, TEG, etc. There really is not a neat, tidy, simple way to do this.

David Simpson, PE
MuleShoe Engineering

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