An axial cyclone air filtration apparatus integrated with a bipolar-charged agglomeration includes a pre-charge region and an axial cyclone coagulation dust separation apparatus, and the pre-charge region is arranged on an air inlet side of the axial cyclone coagulation dust separation apparatus. Suspended particles in air are charged with charges of different polarities in the pre-charge region before entering the axial cyclone coagulation dust separation apparatus. The organic combination of electric coagulation technology and axial cyclone dust separation technology improves the filtering efficiency for ultra-fine particles in air.

An air conditioning device includes an inlet plenum to receive input air, a sprayer to charge at least one of a plurality of liquid droplets generating at least one charged liquid droplet and to release the charged liquid droplet into air rotating vortex, moving the input air within a spray chamber, to cause the charged liquid droplet to attract and attach a vapor molecule of the input air separating the molecule from the input air, a separation chamber to cause the liquid droplet with the attached vapor molecule to separate from the vortex to condense and collect as liquid, and an air outlet to direct, away from the air conditioning device, output air including air remaining following the separation, from the vortex, of the liquid droplet with the attached vapor molecule, where a first humidity of the output air is less than a second humidity of the input air.

According to the present invention there is provided a separation device for separating a fluid, said fluid comprising multiple components, into at least two components comprising: a support structure; at least one conduit mounted on or within said support structure for rotation about an axis; at least one inlet for introducing a flow of said fluid into said at least one conduit; and at least one outlet for outputting at least one of said components therefrom; wherein the said at least one conduit is configured such that, in use, when said flow of said fluid is applied thereto, said conduit is thereby caused to rotate on or within said support structure about said axis, thereby separating said fluid into at least two components.

Electro-kinetic separation processes for removing solid particles from hydrocracker process streams are provided herein.

The system extracts water from lunar regolith and includes a regolith intake having a digging bucket that collects lunar regolith soil and a gravel separator that separates and discharges gravel and passes a mixture of ice-regolith powder having ice grains that are about 10-100 microns along the conveyor. A pneumatic separator receives the ice-regolith powder and pneumatically splits the ice-regolith powder into streams of different sized lithic fragments and ice particles per the ratio of inertial force and aerodynamic drag force of the lithic fragments and ice particles. Each split stream may include a magnetic separator that separates further the magnetic and paramagnetic lithic fragments from ice particles to discharge up to 80 percent of lithic fragments to slag.

The system extracts water from lunar regolith and includes a regolith intake having a digging bucket that collects lunar regolith soil and a gravel separator that separates and discharges gravel and passes a mixture of ice-regolith powder having ice grains that are about 10-100 microns along the conveyor. A pneumatic separator receives the ice-regolith powder and pneumatically splits the ice-regolith powder into streams of different sized lithic fragments and ice particles per the ratio of inertial force and aerodynamic drag force of the lithic fragments and ice particles. Each split stream may include a magnetic separator that separates further the magnetic and paramagnetic lithic fragments from ice particles to discharge up to 80 percent of lithic fragments to slag.

A centrifugal liquid separating system broadly comprises an insert cartridge including a housing, an inlet, one or more flow guides, a stator, a compression nozzle, an expansion nozzle, and an outlet. The flow guides guide liquid flowing into the inlet past the stator into the compression nozzle. The stator induces a rotational vortex into the liquid flow. Liquid with heavier particles in the liquid flow is urged to the outside of the rotational vortex. Liquid with lighter particles and cleaner liquid is urged to the inside of the rotational vortex. The compression nozzle and the expansion nozzle are aligned to cooperatively form an annular liquid channel. The liquid with the heavier particles flows through the annular liquid channel and the liquid with the lighter particles and the cleaner liquid flows to the expansion nozzle to the outlet.

An electrocyclonic particle collector (EPC) for removing particulate matter from a gas includes an EPC gas inlet, an EPC gas outlet, and an EPC gas flow path between the EPC gas inlet and the EPC gas outlet. A first section is downstream of the EPC gas inlet and includes a first cyclonic particle collector in the gas flow path for cyclonically removing particles from the gas. A second section is in series with the first section and includes a rotational flow chamber in the gas flow path, and at least a first electrode in the gas flow path for facilitating electrostatic removal of particles from the gas stream in the rotational flow chamber.

A system for the controlled distribution of capping material and the capture of dust and particulates includes an enclosure having a top wall and a continuous perimetrical side wall with an open bottom end. A cyclone inside the enclosure separates the air, dust, and particulates from solid materials. The air, dust, and particulates are exhausted from the enclosure to a filtering system. The solid capping material passes from the cyclone to a hopper and then to a spreader for the controlled distribution of the capping material through the open bottom end of the enclosure.

The system extracts water from lunar regolith and includes a regolith intake having a digging bucket that collects lunar regolith soil and a gravel separator that separates and discharges gravel and passes a mixture of ice-regolith powder having ice grains that are about 10-100 microns along the conveyor. A pneumatic separator receives the ice-regolith powder and pneumatically splits the ice-regolith powder into streams of different sized lithic fragments and ice particles per the ratio of inertial force and aerodynamic drag force of the lithic fragments and ice particles. Each split stream may include a magnetic separator that separates further the magnetic and paramagnetic lithic fragments from ice particles to discharge up to 80 percent of lithic fragments to slag.