Chapter 4.

bowl function

Bowl function
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What happens inside?

Operates with the Alcap principle

No gravity disc
No level ring
Centrishoot
Complete displacement
Complete ejection
Clean bowl!

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Activity
Snap ring (Centrilock) O-ring

Bowl hood
Bowl discs
Bowl body

Hood seal/o-ring
O-ring
Top disc O-ring
Distributor
Operating slide
O-rings
O-ring
Inlet / outlet pipe Cap nut
Nut Operating slide holder
Paring tube
Discharge slide
Operating water ring
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Seal ring
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Bowl inlet and outlets

Inlet
Oil outlet
Water outlet

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question

Which other separator for

marine and power use has
the oil paring disc inside
the top of the disc stack?

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question

No level ring!
Why has the level ring been
removed?

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question

Why has the water paring

disc been replaced by a
paring tube?

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Product flow
1. Alcap
Valve V 5 normally closed
Conditioning water
2. Oil flow
Inlet
Paring chamber
3.Water / Sludge

4. Paringtube position

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Inside the bowl

at discharge -1
Dirty oil in
Interface / separated
sludge
If back pressure increased?
Oil level inwards
Interface outwards
Water level inwards
Paring tube inwards
If back pressure decreased?

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Inside the bowl

at discharge -2
Feed off
Oil level
Water level

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Inside the bowl

at discharge -3
1 - Water outlet closed
2 - Oil outlet closed
opened at pressure
increase signal from
PT4 in oil outlet.
3 - Oil displaced
Displacement
volume based on
calibration of water
flow at first start-up.

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Inside the bowl

at discharge -4
Displacement continues
Paring tube moves in
Oil column replaced by
water - heavier

Complete
displacement
Tube flush

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Inside the bowl

at discharge -5
After discharge
Empty bowl

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Inside the bowl

at discharge -6
Conditioning water is
added , time is
depending on
calibration made at first
start-up

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Inside the bowl

at discharge -7
After conditioning water
Top disc well covered
Water does not reach
disc stack

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Inside
Inside the
the bowl
bowl
at
at discharge
discharge -8
-8
Feed on
Water pushed out
Oil does not pass top
disk
Bowl in running
condition

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Oil/water back pressure, tube

position, Appendix 4
Previous separator models
Increase oil back pressure increases water pressure
FOPX, water indicating pressure increases when recirc holes in
heavy phase paring disc become blocked
Separation unit
when oil pressure is increased the water pressure decreases

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Oil/water back pressure, tube position,

Appendix 4
Paring tube
free to move between
inner and outer limits

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Oil/water back pressure, tube

position, Appendix 4

Water paring chamber

Low oil back pressure
gives a large diameter
water ring

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Oil/water back pressure, tube position,

Appendix 4
Water paring chamber
High oil back pressure
gives a small diameter
water ring

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Oil/water back pressure, tube position,

Appendix 4
Paring tube position
large diameter gives high
pressure
tube out gives high
pressure

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Oil/water back pressure, tube position,

Appendix 4
Paring tube position
small diameter gives low
pressure
tube in gives low
pressure

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The operating mechanism

QUESTION, how do we push the operating slide against the bowl
body when there are no springs in the bowl?

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The operating mechanism

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The operating mechanism

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The operating mechanism

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The operating mechanism

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The operating mechanism

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The operating mechanism

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The operating mechanism

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The operating mechanism

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The operating mechanism

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The operating mechanism

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The operating mechanism

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The operating mechanism

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The operating mechanism

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The operating mechanism

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The operating mechanism

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The operating mechanism

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The operating mechanism

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