This application discloses a separator for separating and recovering materials from a waste stream. The separator has a cyclone having a top section and a bottom section, an impeller within the cyclone, a media inlet for accepting a flow of media or a pulsating flow of the media operatively connected to the impeller in which media or fluid flows through the impeller into the separator; a first discharge passage for a collecting a light fraction, and a second discharge passage for collecting a heavy fraction.

An airflow separator of the present invention includes: a first column into which gas is introduced from a lower portion and inside which a sample is made to flow; a heavy particle recovery device provided at the lower portion of the first column; and a control device configured to control a wind speed by an amount of gas to be introduced into the first column. The first column has a weak rotational airflow generation mechanism to smooth wind speed distribution in a cross-section of a tube of the first column by making it substantially W-shaped from a portion of a wall of the tube to the center of the tube to another portion of the wall of the tube. The heavy particle recovery device recovers from the sample, heavy particles falling down. The airflow separator recovers emission gas, intermediate and light particles from an upper portion of the first column.

A separator includes a rotor, a plurality of flow channels each of which has an inlet and an outlet for gas and are in a vicinity of a rotation axis of the rotor, an air current producer configured to cause gas to flow through the plurality of flow channels, a driving device configured to rotate the rotor to rotate the plurality of flow channels around the rotation axis, and a discharger for allowing discharge of solid materials suspended in airstream produced in each of the plurality of flow channels, in a direction away from the rotation axis.

An actuator for a separator for separating contaminants from a fluid stream which includes entrained contaminants. The actuator is arranged to move along an actuator axis to adjust an open cross-sectional area of at least one aperture of the separator, and comprises a flexible diaphragm, and a support assembly for the flexible diaphragm. The support assembly is movable along the actuator axis carrying the flexible diaphragm and has an upper support member mounted on a lower support member. A portion of the flexible diaphragm is located between the upper and lower support members. The lower support member comprises an axially extending support portion coupled to a radially extending support portion. The upper support member comprises a diaphragm anti-inversion feature coupled to a radially extending support portion. The diaphragm anti-inversion feature extends such that it axially overlaps at least part of the axially extending support portion of the lower support member.

A dust collector with convenient loading and unloading dust collecting barrel includes a base plate fixed on an outer periphery of a bottom of an air guide cylinder, an operation unit whose end is pivotally arranged on the base plate, linking members disposed on said operation unit and connected to a dust collecting barrel lid located under the air guide tube. Accordingly, when a user lifts up the operation unit, the linking members move the dust collecting barrel lid upwards. The upward movement separates the dust collecting barrel lid from the dust collecting barrel, so the dust collecting barrel is easily detached. The action of swinging the operation unit swings down allows the linking members to move the dust collecting barrel lid downwards, so the dust collecting barrel lid closes the dust collecting barrel. Therefore, the user loads and unloads the dust collecting barrel quickly and conveniently.

A cyclonic separation and materials processing method and system is presented in which materials entry at one end and which is arranged so that the materials that enter will be given a tangential velocity component as they enter. Specific embodiments include a three-dimensional sorting system with the use of an outward centrifugal motion and up/down (or vertical) motion flow of water or other media, which can be thought of as “a three-dimensional separation”.

A fluid separation apparatus for removing one fluid component from another fluid component in a fluid stream includes an impeller disposed between an annular inlet chamber and a first fluid chamber having a hollow, conical trapezoidal shape with a diameter that reduces along a portion of the length of the first fluid chamber. The impeller redirects a liquid flowing in a circular swirling flow path along the wall of the inlet chamber to an outlet an inlet of the first fluid chamber disposed adjacent the central axis of the first fluid chamber. A coaxially aligned extraction pipe extends into a lighter density fluid envelope formed in the first fluid chamber adjacent the inlet of the first fluid chamber. The extraction pipe may be dynamically adjustable based on the shape of the lighter density fluid envelope to maximize removal of lighter density fluid from the lighter density fluid envelope.

A compact disc stack cyclone separator includes: a fluid inlet; a vortex generator which generates a forced vortex; a conical or cylindrical vortex generating chamber; a separation chamber which is a cavity formed by downstream open ends of stacked truncated cones; narrow gaps between the stacked truncated cones, a collecting channel for heavy phrase fluid from the gaps between the stacked truncated cones which installed about the outlets of the gaps at upstream open end of the stacked truncated cones to channel heavy phrase fluid to a storage chamber of heavy phrase fluid; and an outlet for heavy phrase fluid to flow out from the storage chamber of heavy phrase fluid, while the outlet of light phrase fluid is annexed to the downstream open end of the last stacked truncated cone which is the downstream open end of separation chamber.

A swirl generating pipe element for providing a rotational movement to a fluid, comprising a reluctance motor and a pipe section (9), wherein the reluctance motor comprises a stator element (1) and a rotor element (2); the stator element comprises multiple stator poles (3); the rotor element comprises a vane assembly having multiple rotor poles (4) and arranged to rotate around a rotor shaft (7) situated along the centerline of the pipe section (9), and each rotor pole has a first end (5) rotatably connected to the rotor shaft (7) and a second end (6) arranged close enough to one of the multiple stator poles (3) for a magnetic polarization to be induced in the rotor pole; and the pipe section (9) comprises a wall, having an external and an internal circumferential surface, and an inlet and an outlet for a fluid; wherein the stator element (1) and the rotor element (2) is separated by the wall (8) of the pipe section (9), and the multiple stator poles (3) are arranged at the external circumferential surface of the pipe section, and the second end (6) of the multiple rotor poles (4) are arranged adjacent to the internal circumferential surface of the pipe section, such that the vane assembly may provide a rotational movement to a fluid entering the inlet (10) of the pipe section (9).

A cleaner includes a housing having a hollow inner space, a housing partition configured to divide the inner space into an first space and a second space, first and second communication holes formed through the housing partition to allow the first and second spaces to communicate with each other, an inlet through which air from an outside of the housing is introduced into the second space, an air discharge port through which air in the first space is exhausted to the outside of the housing, a fan arranged in the first space to draw air to the air discharge port, a first cyclone arranged in the second space to guide air to the first communication hole and separate dirt from the air, and a second cyclone arranged in the second space to guide a portion of air to the second communication hole and separate dirt from the air.