Devices and methods for immunomagnetic separation having a flexible inflatable processing chamber and magnetic array.

A filter is used for removing metallic contaminants in a solvent used in microcircuit fabrication. The filter includes a filter housing including a filter membrane for filtering solvent including metallic contaminants, and a magnet arranged about the filter housing and configured to generate a magnetic field to attract the metallic contaminants prior to the metallic contaminants entering the filter membrane. The magnet is arranged such that the magnetic field of the magnet is greater in a periphery of the filter housing compared to a central portion of the filter housing.

The present invention relates to a magnet plate for use in isolating a macromolecule from a mixture in a vessel, wherein the magnet plate has a reversible compression lock. The reversible compression lock engages the top plate and the base plate, wherein when in a locked position, the top plate is fixed and cannot move up and down, along the axis of the support or corner post and when in an unlocked position, the top plate is movable up and down along the axis of the support.

A magnetic device for processing biological objects including a soft magnetic center pole having a bottom end and a tapered tip end; first and second soft magnetic side poles disposed on opposite sides of the soft magnetic center pole and respectively having first and second bottom ends, the first and second soft magnetic side poles respectively having first and second top ends that bend inward toward the soft magnetic center pole with a first outward side of the first top end and a second outward side of the second top end being substantially coplanar; a magnetic flux source generating magnetic flux in the soft magnetic center pole and the first and second soft magnetic side poles; and a channel plate having a channel embedded therein and a first planar surface that is operable to be in contact with or in close proximity to the first and second outward sides.

A self-cleaning magnetic filter for removing ferrous contaminates from a natural gas process stream including a housing through which the process stream follows for removing ferrous contaminates in the process stream by magnetic attraction with a plurality of magnetic bars that are removably disposed in a plurality of non-magnetic sleeves disposed within the housing. A recirculating washing solution is used to flush contaminates that adhere to the exterior surfaces of the non-magnetic sleeves and from the housing. A bag filter is used to remove contaminates from the washing solution to allow recycling the washing solution.

A magnetic matrix for magnetic separation of particles in a material feed includes a plurality of grooved plates having first and second sides that both have an alternating series of teeth and grooves therealong, each grooved plate having an offset alignment in which teeth and grooves on a first side of a plate are laterally offset from teeth and grooves on a second side of the same plate. Also provided are methods of using magnetic matrices to separate magnetic ores, with the methods characterized by a negative correlation in which magnetic matrices constructed with grooved plates having larger pitches are used for the separation of ultrafine particles.

A system and method in at least one embodiment for separating fluids including liquids and gases into subcomponents by passing the fluid through a vortex chamber into an expansion chamber and then through at least a portion of a waveform pattern present between at least two rotors and/or disks. In further embodiments, a system and method is offered for harnessing fields created by a system having rotating rotors and/or disks having waveform patterns on at least one side to produce current within a plurality of coils. In at least one embodiment, the waveform patterns include a plurality of hyperbolic waveforms axially aligned around a horizontal center of the system.

A pneumatically-operated magnetic separator captures magnetic contaminants from process fluids. Process fluids are used in many industrial operations for various purposes. The pneumatically-operated magnetic separator can include a housing wall, a first flange plate assembly, a second flange plate assembly, a main fluid passage, tubes, and shuttles. The first and second flange plate assemblies can each include a pair of flange plates. The tubes extend between the first and second flange plate assemblies, and the shuttles are situated in the tubes. Each of the shuttles includes one or more magnets. During use, the shuttles move longitudinally in the tubes in response to pneumatic actuation and de-actuation, per an example. Weldments attach the tubes and the first and second flange plate assemblies together.

Disclosed herein is a waste oil purification apparatus that purifies waste lubricating oil and waste oil at high speed by a precipitation induction method in a vacuum state and further completely removes metallic foreign materials, thereby improving the efficiency of the purification of waste oil. The waste oil purification apparatus may include a purifier configured to purify waste oil such as waste lubricating oil or general waste oil by a filtering method, and a separator configured to separate and remove foreign materials contained in the waste oil purified by the purifier.

A magnetic tool may be provided with a ditch magnet that may include end plates (or handles) having a mostly open architecture, and these end plates may be permanently affixed to the ends of the magnetic bar. Ferrous metal may pass through by urging captured ferrous metal from one end of the ditch magnet to the opposite end. The captured ferrous metal may be urged from one end of the ditch magnet bar to an opposite end using a composite, multi-component wiper. The wiper may remove captured ferrous metal safely and effectively from the ditch magnet bar.