The system includes a hair color packet assembly having one hair color packet and one developer packet and a pump assembly for moving the hair coloring material and developer material to a mixing assembly which mixes the color and the developer and delivers it to a brushhead/distributor, which has openings through which the selected hair color formulation is delivered. The brushhead/distributor is mountable in a handle having a motor which drives the brushhead/distributor in a linear oscillating manner.

The system includes a hair color packet assembly having several individual hair color packets and one developer packet, each packet having a pump for delivering selected amounts of material to a mixing assembly. A control assembly operable in response to a user's input controls each of the pumps to deliver selected amounts of color material and developer material to a mixing assembly which mixes the colors and the developer and delivers it to a brushhead/distributor, which has openings through which the selected hair color formulation is delivered. The brushhead/distributor is mountable in a handle having a motor which drives the brushhead/distributor in a linear oscillating manner.

The problem to be addressed by the present invention is to provide a cleaning apparatus capable of obtaining a cleaning liquid having a high degree of cleanliness. A cleaning apparatus 10 includes a dissolution tank 20 for dissolving a gas in a liquid, a transfer pump 30 for sending the liquid together with the gas into the dissolution tank 20, and a feed nozzle 40 for feeding the liquid stored in the dissolution tank 20 to a workpiece W. The transfer pump 30 is a positive displacement pump. Portions of the dissolution tank 20, the transfer pump 30, and the feed nozzle 40 that come into contact with the liquid are made of a fluororesin.

The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for mixing and atomizing a hydrocarbon stream using a diluent/dispersion stream. The apparatus includes an inner conduit having an inlet for receiving the diluent/dispersion stream; an outer conduit having an inlet for receiving the hydrocarbon stream and an outlet for dispensing a mixture including the hydrocarbon and the dispersion/diluent streams; the outer conduit concentric to the inner conduit to define at least a first annular space and a second annular space; the first annular space being located downstream of the inlet of the outer conduit, the first annular space enabling formation of a thin film of the hydrocarbon stream between an outer surface of the inner conduit and an inner surface of the outer conduit; the second annular space being located downstream of the first annular space, the second annular space having a width greater than a width of the first annular space; and the inner conduit located at about the second annular space includes a first set orifices disposed on a periphery thereof for dispensing a first portion of the dispersion/diluent stream into the thin film of hydrocarbon stream to cross-shear the thin film and form the mixture including the hydrocarbon and the dispersion/diluent streams.

A method in which a stream of dry cementitious powder passes through a first conduit and aqueous medium stream passes through a second conduit to feed a slurry mixer to make cementitious slurry. The cementitious slurry passes through a third conduit and a reinforcement fiber stream passes through a fourth conduit to feed a fiber-slurry mixer which mixes the slurry and discrete fibers to make a stream of fiber-slurry mixture. An apparatus for performing the method is also disclosed.

The present invention provides a producing method of concrete capable of appropriately controlling setting and hardening, and having excellent flexibility of production and handling of concrete. The producing method of concrete includes a cement paste mixing step and a concrete mixing step. In the cement paste mixing step, cement, mixing water and retarder are mixed together to obtain cement paste. According to this, setting and hardening of the cement paste are suppressed, and it is possible to store the cement paste for predetermined time. In the concrete mixing step, aggregate is input into the cement paste, and they are mixed together to obtain concrete. By the mixing operation, a setting-delaying effect is canceled.

A modular premix batching and dispensing system for crop micronutrient application includes a skid-based batching and mixing system with a first dry bin to store a dry mineral sulfate; a second dry bin to store an amino acid; a water source; a reactor having a mixing mechanism and connected with the water source and the dry bins; and a first controller configured to automatically control transfer of water, dry mineral sulfate, and amino acid to the reactor and to control operation of the reactor; and a skid-based day tank system with at least one day tank configured to store mineral amino acid complex received from the reactor; and a dispensing network configured to selectively transfer the mineral amino acid complex to an application receptable. An associated method of preparing and delivering micronutrients using a modular premix batching and dispensing system is also described.

A paint production system produced from pigment pastes and vehicles without prior adjustment. The system includes a volumetric dosing module endowed with automatic volumetric calibrators, at least one continuous processing module that includes a rotary mechanism that moves at least one tank between a mixing station, a continuous adjustment station integrated into a filling station, a cleaning station jointly with a manifold cleaning solvent mist generator and a control center that sends commands to be executed in the volumetric dosing module and continuous processing module units from a set of instructions in a computer program.

In one embodiment, a fine-dispersion compounding apparatus includes a closed container into which solid material is fed; a boiler configured to introduce high-pressure steam into inside of the closed container; a rotating body configured to knead the solid material with liquid medium generated from condensed high-pressure steam by rotating inside the closed container; an open port configured to set internal pressure of the closed container to atmospheric pressure level by releasing a closed state of the closed container; a conveying port configured to convey kneaded mixture of the solid material and liquid medium from inside to outside of the closed container; a mixed dispersion unit configured to disperse the conveyed kneaded mixture and compounding material; a liquid-medium ejection unit configured to eject the liquid medium contained in the kneaded mixture; and an extraction unit configured to extract a composite compound of the compounding material and the solid material.

Methods and systems for mixing dissimilar hydrocarbon feedstock materials to form hydrocarbon feedstock blends for subsequent processing. The dissimilar hydrocarbon feedstock materials can differ by chemical composition, polarity, solubility, and/or physical state and include one or more of biomass-derived materials, non-petroleum-derived oils or fats, polymers, fabrics or textiles, paper or cardboard, rubber, waste products, pyrolysis products of the foregoing, or petroleum-derived materials. Efficient and thorough mixing of the dissimilar hydrocarbon feedstock materials is performed by static inline mixing to form an intermediate blend, which is further mixed by high shear mixing to form the hydrocarbon feedstock blend. The methods and systems may involve other processing equipment e.g., strainers, filters, pumps, furnaces, heat exchangers, reactors, separators, tanks, and/or distillation columns. The hydrocarbon feedstock blend may be further processed by hydrocracking or hydroconversion e.g., by ebullated bed, fixed bed, or slurry bed reactor), solvent deasphalting, coking, fluid catalytic cracking, hydroprocessing, or hydrotreating.