The present invention relates to a texturizing apparatus, configured to texturize a mass of viscoelastic foodstuff material, the apparatus comprising: an outer member, which defines an interior, extending along a longitudinal axis between a first end and a second end, an inner member, which is arranged inside the interior, extending parallel to the longitudinal axis between the first end and the second end. The outer member has an inner surface in the interior that faces an outer surface of the inner member to define a through annular texturizing chamber in between the inner member and the outer member, extending between the first end and the second end. The outer member and the inner member are configured to rotate with respect to each other about the longitudinal axis to subject the foodstuff material in the texturizing chamber to a simple shear flow. The invention is characterized in that the texturizing chamber comprises an upstream chamber segment and a downstream chamber segment, and in that the texturizing apparatus further comprises cooling device, provided at the downstream chamber segment of the texturizing chamber and configured to only cool the downstream chamber segment of the texturizing chamber.

The present invention relates to a texturizing apparatus, configured to texturize a mass of viscoelastic foodstuff material, the apparatus comprising: an outer member, which defines an interior, extending along a longitudinal axis between a first end and a second end, an inner member, which is arranged inside the interior, extending parallel to the longitudinal axis between the first end and the second end. The outer member has an inner surface in the interior that faces an outer surface of the inner member to define a through annular texturizing chamber in between the inner member and the outer member, extending between the first end and the second end. The outer member and the inner member are configured to rotate with respect to each other about the longitudinal axis to subject the foodstuff material in the texturizing chamber to a simple shear flow. The invention is characterized in that the texturizing chamber comprises an upstream chamber segment and a downstream chamber segment, and in that the texturizing apparatus further comprises cooling device, provided at the downstream chamber segment of the texturizing chamber and configured to only cool the downstream chamber segment of the texturizing chamber.

A spray system for applying an amount of a liquid to a material that is a function of the unit weight of the material as the material is moving via a conveyor system, the spray system includes a spray nozzle oriented to discharge liquid on the material being conveyed. A weight measurement system includes a first sensor and a second sensor. A programmable logic controller (PLC) configured to determine a total volume of material conveyed per a unit of time and determine a weight of the material being conveyed per the unit of time using a bulk density of the material being conveyed. A spray configured to vary a cycle of actuation of the spray nozzle between the closed and open positions to discharge a desired amount of the liquid based on the weight per unit time of the material being conveyed.

Disclosed is a chemical liquid discharge mechanism. The mechanism includes: a storage portion including a chemical liquid storage space; a diluent supply port opened to supply a diluent for reducing a viscosity of the chemical liquid to the storage space; a vertex flow forming portion that forms vortex flows in the diluent and the chemical liquid by supplying a fluid to the storage space to stir the diluent and the chemical liquid; and a liquid discharge port opened to an upper side of the diluent supply port in the storage space such that, by the supply of the diluent, the diluent and the chemical liquid flow into the liquid discharge port to be discharged from the storage space. Thus, the viscosity of the waste liquid discharged from the liquid discharge port may be reduced, and thus, it is not necessary to largely set the inclination of the liquid discharge path.

Stirrer (1) for stirring molten glass (16), whereby the stirrer (1) comprisesa shaft (2) having a tip (4) and having a central longitudinal axis (L), andone or more inner stirrer blades (5,6) which are attached to the shaft (2), andone or more outer stirrer blades (7,8) which are attached to the shaft (2), whereby the inner stirrer blades (5,6) are attached closer to the shaft (2) than the outer stirrer blades (7,8), whereby, when considering the stirrer in a cylindrical coordinate system (11), both the one or more inner stirrer blades (5,6) as well as the one or more outer stirrer blades (7,8) are disposed at an angle (?, ?) to the central longitudinal axis (L), whereby said angle (?, ?) is between 0? and 90? not including these values, and are disposed having a least a blade section with a normal vector (N, P, Q, R), on the side directed towards the tip (4), with an angular component (N.sub.A, P.sub.A, Q.sub.A, R.sub.A).

What is proposed is an emulsifying system with an emulsifying device and an injection nozzle as well as an emulsifying device for producing a water-fuel emulsion for an internal combustion engine, wherein the emulsifying device is embodied as a rotor-stator emulsifying device and/or fluid flow machine and/or is connected or connectable directly to an injection nozzle. The emulsifying device has a housing and a shaft, the shaft being drivable in a contactless manner, the housing having a guide apparatus having a plurality of guide channels for guiding the flow, and/or the housing being made at least partially from fiber composite material. Moreover, an emulsifying method for producing a water-fuel emulsion is proposed in which water and fuel are fed to a rotor-stator emulsifying device and/or fluid flow machine for producing the water-fuel emulsion, and/or in which water and fuel are premixed in a first emulsifying stage and fed via a guide apparatus having a plurality of guide channels to a second emulsifying stage.

A method for controlling fluid ratio accuracy during a dual flow injection with a powered injection system is described. The method includes predicting a first capacitance volume of a first syringe comprising a first medical fluid and a second capacitance volume of a second syringe comprising a second medical fluid with a first capacitance correction factor and a second capacitance correction factor, respectively, selecting a ratio of the first medical fluid and the second medical fluid to be administered to a patient in the dual flow injection, determining a relative acceleration ratio of a first piston of the first syringe and a second piston of a second syringe based on the predicted first capacitance volume and the predicted second capacitance volume, wherein the relative acceleration ratio is selected to maintain the selected ratio of the first medical fluid and the second medical fluid during the dual flow injection, and injecting a mixture of a first medical fluid and a second medical fluid having the selected ratio with the powered injection system.

The ballast water and fish farm treatment system for circulating effluent water of a fish farm or a ship by filtering and resupplying the effluent water, the system including a heat exchange system to heat or cool the effluent water, a physical filtration unit to filter out impurities from the effluent water are discharged from the heat exchange system, and a chemical filtration unit to mix the effluent water discharged from the physical filtration unit with chlorine dioxide, wherein the effluent water discharged from the chemical filtration unit is resupplied to the fish farm or the ship. The ballast water and fish farm treatment system allows circulation water of the ship and fish farm to be reused after completely removing parasites, hazardous organisms, germs, and viruses from the circulation water using a combination of physical, chemical and physiological treatment techniques.

A simple-cycle gas turbine system includes an injection system including a plurality of injection tubes that may inject a fluid into a duct of an exhaust processing system that may process exhaust gas generated by a gas turbine engine. The exhaust processing system includes a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) system that may reduce a level of nitrogen oxides (NO.sub.x) within the exhaust gas; and a mixing system positioned adjacent to the plurality of injection tubes and within the exhaust processing system. The mixing system includes a mixing module having a plurality of turbulators that may swirl the fluid, or the exhaust gas, or both, in a first swirl direction to encourage turbulent flow along an axis of the exhaust processing system and thereby facilitate mixing between the fluid and the exhaust gas.

The invention relates to continuous methods for compounding and applying adhesives, characterized in that (i) a base component of the adhesive is mixed continuously with at least one aggregate so as to produce a compounded adhesive; and (ii) the adhesive compounded in this manner is applied to a substrate. The invention also relates to such methods where a device as described here is used to carry out the method.