Crinkled Wire Mesh Type Mist Elminator
When vapor and entrained liquid pass the mist eliminator pad, the liquid droplets from the gas stream contact the wire surfaces and stick there and grow unit that cannot be held there because of its size, and fall off.
In the meantime the vapor goes through the mist eliminator pad is pure, containing no liquid, no dirt and no dust.
Chevron Type Mist Eliminator
Gases with entrained liquid droplets flow between the zig-zag baffles.
The gas can easily make the turns while the liquid droplets impinge upon the walls of the baffles and coalesce to a size that they drop downward, being too heavy to be carried in the gas.