A cavitation reactor having a pulse valve for receiving an input fluid flow and generating a pulsed output flow that is provided to the input of a resonance chamber, such as a tube. The pulse valve uses a shaft with a number of regularly spaced lands to form fluid conduits between an input port and the output port connected to the resonance tube to cause fluid communication between the input and output ports to be regularly opened and closed, thereby producing a pulsed output that drives the formation of resonance waves in the resonance chamber. The shaft is rotated at a suitable frequency to produce cavitation bubbles that collapse in the resonance chamber without damaging the valve shaft.

Acoustophoretic devices are disclosed. The devices include a flow chamber, an ultrasonic transducer, a reflector, an inlet, a filtrate outlet, a concentrate outlet, and optionally a lipid collection trap. The ultrasonic transducer and reflector create a multi-dimensional acoustic standing wave in the flow chamber that traps and separates red blood cells and/or lipids from blood. Concentrated red blood cells can be recovered via the concentrate outlet, the lipids can be recovered via the lipid collection trap, and the remaining blood can be recovered via the filtrate outlet. Methods for separating blood components (e.g., red blood cells, lipids, platelets, white blood cells) from blood are also disclosed. The red blood cells can undergo washing with a solvent to remove undesired admixtures. Cryoprotectants can be added or removed from the blood.

A high-rate sedimentation tank includes a hopper configured to be supplied with raw water including floc, at least one circular orifice pipe disposed at a lower portion of the hopper and configured to have the floc deposited therein as a sludge while passing the floc included in the raw water therethrough, and a sludge outlet configured to discharge the sludge deposited by passing through the circular orifice pipe to an outside of the hopper.

The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for the separation of blood components including separation by rapid sedimentation, including in an automated fashion.

The present disclosure provides a method for removing silicon powder in a coolant for monocrystalline silicon slicing with a diamond wire, including following steps: preparing an inorganic coagulation-inducing saline solution; mixing the inorganic coagulation-inducing saline solution with a waste coolant of the coolant after monocrystalline silicon slicing to obtain a mixture, and leaving the mixture to stand to carry out agglomeration and precipitation of the silicon powder. The inorganic coagulation-inducing saline solution has advantages of being inexpensive, non-toxic, easy to obtain, and achieving good agglomeration and precipitation. It is inexpensive to remove the silicon powder in the waste coolant for the monocrystalline silicon slicing with the diamond wire, and does not cause environmental pollution. The recovered silicon powder can be recycled and sold again, and the coolant can be reused for cutting after simple treatment.