A resistivity regulating apparatus includes: a gas dissolving device that causes a regulating gas to dissolve in a liquid targeted for resistivity regulation to generate a treated liquid in which the regulating gas is dissolved in the liquid, the regulating gas being used to regulate a resistivity of the liquid; and a buffer tank to which the treated liquid discharged from the gas dissolving device is fed.

Described herein is a method and a system for dispersing particles in a fluid. The method includes stirring a fluid including particles in a stirring container using stirring means. During stirring the fluid is recirculated by continuously retrieving an amount of fluid from a retrieving position. Further, the particles are milled, where during each pass through the milling means a size of particles in the retrieved fluid is reduced. The retrieved fluid having passed through the milling means is continuously reintroduced into the stirring container at a reintroduction position. The reintroduced fluid is mixed with the fluid in the stirring container in a mixing region defined by the stirring means, and the retrieving position is determined such that the retrieved fluid includes particles with an average particle size differing from the average particle size of particles in the mixing region.

Described herein is a method and a system for dispersing particles in a fluid. The method includes stirring a fluid including particles in a stirring container using stirring means. During stirring the fluid is recirculated by continuously retrieving an amount of fluid from a retrieving position. Further, the particles are milled, where during each pass through the milling means a size of particles in the retrieved fluid is reduced. The retrieved fluid having passed through the milling means is continuously reintroduced into the stirring container at a reintroduction position. The reintroduced fluid is mixed with the fluid in the stirring container in a mixing region defined by the stirring means, and the retrieving position is determined such that the retrieved fluid includes particles with an average particle size differing from the average particle size of particles in the mixing region.

A direct drive batch mixing system including a vessel having an interior region for receiving a batch, a direct drive electric motor attached to at least one rigid point, a multi-axis load cell located between the motor and the rigid point to provide signals representing forces and moments in multiple axes, and an impeller located within the interior region of the vessel and engaged with the motor such that the motor rotates the impeller. Forces and loads on the impeller are directly supported by the motor and measured by the multi-axis load cell. In some embodiments, a programmable controller generates control signals that control the motor's speed (RPM), torque and direction of rotation, and receives feedback signals for adjusting the motor's speed and/or torque and/or direction of rotation.

A resistivity regulating apparatus includes: a gas dissolving device that causes a regulating gas to dissolve in a liquid targeted for resistivity regulation to generate a treated liquid in which the regulating gas is dissolved in the liquid, the regulating gas being used to regulate a resistivity of the liquid; and a buffer tank to which the treated liquid discharged from the gas dissolving device is fed.

A resistivity regulating apparatus includes: a gas dissolving device that causes a regulating gas to dissolve in a liquid targeted for resistivity regulation to generate a treated liquid in which the regulating gas is dissolved in the liquid, the regulating gas being used to regulate a resistivity of the liquid; and a buffer tank to which the treated liquid discharged from the gas dissolving device is fed.

A mixing arrangement, and pump for supplying small particles suspended in a liquid to form slurry for delivery includes a container, a mixing and delivery pump having a first shaft, a rotor connected to the first shaft and arranged at an inner bottom of an inner space of the container, a first power device connected to the first shaft, and a stator having stator blades. The stator surrounds the first shaft. The arrangement includes a pump having an inlet, which is located in a stator space between two stator blades, and an outlet, and an outlet pipe having a second inlet opening connected to the outlet and a second outlet opening located outside the inner space.

An apparatus for mixing and pumping, the apparatus comprising a housing with an inlet and an outlet for receiving and expelling liquid and a material. The apparatus has a shear rotor and a stator for mixing the liquid and material and an impeller for pumping the liquid and material from the inlet, via an annular clearance between the shear rotor and the stator and to the outlet. The apparatus has a return conduit configured to return to the inlet a part of the liquid and material pumped via the annular clearance and openings in the stator.

In order to provide a dispersion method and a dispersion apparatus capable of mixing a material to be processed and a dispersion medium having no affinity with each other using a single apparatus without using a dispersant, there are provided a quantitative supply mechanism quantitatively supplying a material to be processed, a suction stirring mechanism primarily including a suction stirring pump in which the material to be processed and a dispersion medium are subjected to negative pressure suction by a negative pressure suction force generated by rotation of a rotating blade and the suctioned material to be processed and the dispersion medium are stirred and mixed by the rotating blade and are allowed to pass through a throttle passage to cause cavitation, and a plasma generating mechanism generating a plasma in bubbles formed due to cavitation in a mixed liquid of the material to be processed and the dispersion medium.

A system for mixing drilling fluids that includes a fluid supply tank for supplying an unmixed drilling fluid, a mixing reactor fluidly connected to the fluid supply tank, the mixing reactor including an intake and an outlet; a mixing chamber disposed between the intake and the outlet, an inlet for injecting a compressible driving fluid into the mixing chamber and an inlet for injecting an aerating gas into the mixing chamber is disclosed.