A method for producing a coating liquid includes a stirring step of stirring a raw material containing porous particles, a binder resin, and a liquid medium using a planetary mixer. A coating liquid contains porous particles, a binder resin, and a liquid medium, wherein a content of the porous particles is 20% by mass or more. A coating film contains porous particles and a binder resin, wherein a content of the porous particles is 80% by mass or more, and the coating film has a density of 0.4 g/cm.sup.3 or less.

An open-topped drinking cup 10 and a lid 12 comprising a lid cover 14 and a mixing device 16 for holding a mixing a condiment into a beverage 44 held in the dinking cup. The lid cover defines a circular mounting aperture 22 within which the mixing device is displaceably located. The mixing device 16 includes four tubular mixing elements 32.1, 32.2, 32.3, and 32.4 which are connected to another so as to be telescopically displaceable relative to one another between a retracted condition and an extended condition wherein the mixing device extends into the beverage 44. The mixing device 16 includes a condiment holder comprising a condiment chamber 36 which is defined within the mixing element 32.1, for holding a condiment 38 such as sugar. The mixing element 32.4 has a number of circumferentially-spaced slots 42 through which the condiment 38 is discharged into the beverage 44.

The present invention relates to a process for preparing a formulation comprising an alkali metal salt selected from the group consisting of alkali metal bicarbonate salts, alkali metal carbonate salts, alkali metal sesquicarbonate salts and combinations thereof, wherein said process comprises: (a) dissolving a functionalizing agent in a solvent; (b) mixing the alkali metal salt with the solution comprising the functionalizing agent that a paste-like composition is formed; (c) extruding the paste-like composition to obtain filaments or granules; (d) at least partially removing the solvent from the filaments or granules. The invention furthermore relates to a powder, filaments and granules obtainable from said process and to the use of the powder, filaments or granules in various applications such as in plastic foaming or in food and feed leavening compositions.

Disclosed herein is a process for manufacturing a material, in accordance with some embodiments. Accordingly, the material facilitates a reduction of pollutants from air. Further, the process may include heating natural zeolite to at least one hundred degree celsius for a predetermined duration of time. Further, the heating removes at least one impurity from the natural zeolite. Further, the process may include producing purified natural zeolite based on the heating. Further, the process may include grinding the purified natural zeolite into particles based on the producing. Further, the process may include incorporating the particles of the purified natural zeolite into a grind paste based on the grinding. Further, the incorporating produces the material.

A system for mixing a liquid with a powder into a solution batch includes a hopper (20) into which said powder is deposited, the hopper (20) having a powder outlet (22) therein. A mix tank (60) is also provided having a liquid supply inlet (62), a recirculation inlet (64), and a solution outlet (66). A mix pump (40) that is in fluid communication with the solution outlet (66), the powder outlet (22), and the recirculation inlet (64) operates to mix and transfer the solution.

Provided are a system for manufacturing dispersion liquid of carbon nanotubes and a method of manufacturing a dispersion liquid of carbon nanotubes using the same. The system includes; a mixing device supplied with solvent and carbon nanotubes, and storing a admixture of the solvent and the carbon nanotubes; a first dispersion device connected to the mixing device, performing a primary dispersion of the carbon nanotubes by an operation of a rotor and a stator, and then performing a secondary dispersion to form bent portions in the carbon nanotubes while discharging the carbon nanotubes through penetration holes of the stator; and a second dispersion device performing a tertiary dispersion of the carbon nanotubes to selectively cut the bent portions of the carbon nanotubes by irradiating a laser when the secondarily dispersed admixture recirculates to the mixing device.

A particle-carrying feedstock is mixed by a rotor-stator mixing mechanism placed within a mixing chamber where mixing is conducted under a negative pressure for separating and removing entrained air from the mixed feedstock, preferably before passing the de-aerated mixed feedstock to a media mill for processing into a particle dispersion. The rotor of the rotor-stator mixing mechanism preferably includes a disk carrying vanes on opposite faces of the disk for a conducting simultaneous dual mixing operations. Openings in the stator are provided with an H-shaped cross-sectional configuration and are intermingled for facilitating the mixing operation while maintaining the integrity of the rotor-stator mixing mechanism.

Provided is a method for manufacturing an active material mixture, the method including: supplying and dispersing a solid electrolyte in a dispersion medium while circulating the dispersion medium (a first dispersion step); and thereafter supplying and dispersing an active material and a conductive material in the dispersion medium (a second dispersion step), wherein an average rotation speed of the rotor in the second dispersion step is lower than an average rotation speed of the rotor in the first dispersion step. Aggregation of the solid electrolyte can be suppressed by separately performing the first dispersion step and the second dispersion step, and the increase in temperature of the active material mixture can be reduced by lowering the rotation speed of the rotor in the second dispersion step.

A method for modifying a fine particle dispersion liquid has excellent dispersibility and dispersion stability. In this method for modifying a fine particle dispersion liquid having improved fine particle dispersibility, impurities included in an agglomeration of fine particles contained in the fine particle dispersion liquid are released into the dispersion liquid by applying physical energy to the agglomeration and performing dispersion processing for dispersion into particles that are smaller than the agglomeration of fine particles. The impurities are removed from the dispersion liquid by means of a removal unit provided with a filtration membrane before reagglomeration is caused by the impurities.

A device and a method for dispersing at least one substance in a fluid is disclosed. The device includes a process housing with a rotor, a fluid supply, a feed line for the at least one substance to be dispersed having at least one outlet opening, as well as a product outlet. The rotor brings about an axial delivery of a supplied fluid at least in some sections. Furthermore, the rotor brings about a radial delivery of the supplied fluid at least in some sections.