Commercial Rotary Defoamers

FIGURE 7.11 Commercial centrifugal rotary plate foam breaker with conic plates and peripheral foam feed. (From FUNDAFOM, Chemap AG, 1977. With kind permission from Springer Science-tBusiness Media Theor. Found. Chem. Eng., 37, 2001, 372, Vetoshkin, A.G.) 

FIGURE 7.12 Simplified schematic diagram of cyclone foam breaker. (With kind permission from Springer Science+Business Media Gas Cyclones and Swirl Tubes Principles, Design and Operation, Foam-breaking cyclones, 2008, p 327, Hoffmann, A.C., Stein, L.E., Chapter 14.) 

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