In at least one embodiment, the invention provides a retrofit for existing water treatment systems where the retrofit includes a particulate separator with a connection member and a discharge module. In a further embodiment, the invention includes a water treatment system combined with at least one of the following: a particulate separator, a supplementary inlet, and a waveform disk-pack turbine.

In at least one embodiment, the invention provides a retrofit for existing water treatment systems where the retrofit includes a particulate separator with a connection member and a discharge module. In a further embodiment, the invention includes a water treatment system combined with at least one of the following: a particulate separator, a supplementary inlet, and a waveform disk-pack turbine.

A particle separator assembly includes an airbox providing an outer tapered portion tapering from a first section having a first cross sectional area to a first opening having a second cross sectional area less than the first cross sectional area. The example assembly includes a flow diverter providing an inner tapered portion that tapers to a second opening. The example assembly includes an air filter housed by the airbox, the air filter is spaced from the second opening in a first direction, and the first opening is spaced from the second opening in a second direction opposite the first direction.

A particle separator assembly includes an airbox providing an outer tapered portion tapering from a first section having a first cross sectional area to a first opening having a second cross sectional area less than the first cross sectional area. The example assembly includes a flow diverter providing an inner tapered portion that tapers to a second opening. The example assembly includes an air filter housed by the airbox, the air filter is spaced from the second opening in a first direction, and the first opening is spaced from the second opening in a second direction opposite the first direction.

A sand trap for oil and gas extraction includes a cyclonic flow section having a longitudinal axis, an inlet for receiving a high-pressure fluid stream with particulates, an upper portion, a choke area, and a funnel portion narrowing from the upper portion to the choke area. The inlet has an axis generally perpendicular but askew to the longitudinal axis. A vortex finder extends downwardly from a cap and defines a passageway coaxial with the longitudinal axis for fluid to exit. A spherical accumulator extends downwardly from the cyclonic flow section and has a center axis coaxial with the longitudinal axis. Upper and lower ends of the spherical accumulator each have an opening centered along the longitudinal axis, and the spherical accumulator is unobstructed from the upper opening to the lower opening for the particulates to pass unimpeded and accumulate in the accumulator.

A sand trap for oil and gas extraction includes a cyclonic flow section having a longitudinal axis, an inlet for receiving a high-pressure fluid stream with particulates, an upper portion, a choke area, and a funnel portion narrowing from the upper portion to the choke area. The inlet has an axis generally perpendicular but askew to the longitudinal axis. A vortex finder extends downwardly from a cap and defines a passageway coaxial with the longitudinal axis for fluid to exit. A spherical accumulator extends downwardly from the cyclonic flow section and has a center axis coaxial with the longitudinal axis. Upper and lower ends of the spherical accumulator each have an opening centered along the longitudinal axis, and the spherical accumulator is unobstructed from the upper opening to the lower opening for the particulates to pass unimpeded and accumulate in the accumulator.

A system and method for extracting essential oils from organic material is provided. One embodiment places organic material into an extraction chamber that is a cylindrical wall of rigid material, wherein a diameter and a height of the extraction chamber is sized to define an interior that accommodates a desired amount of an organic material having essential oils; fills the extraction chamber with a solvent after the organic matter has been placed into the extraction chamber; and moves a vortex plunger disposed over the surface of the organic material in a repeated upward and downward motion during an agitation process so that the vortex vanes generate a fluid vortex in the solvent, wherein the fluid vortex causes the solvent to be drawn upward into the organic material and then to be pushed downward through the organic material so that the solvent extracts essential oils from the organic material.

A system and method for extracting essential oils from organic material is provided. One embodiment places organic material into an extraction chamber that is a cylindrical wall of rigid material, wherein a diameter and a height of the extraction chamber is sized to define an interior that accommodates a desired amount of an organic material having essential oils; fills the extraction chamber with a solvent after the organic matter has been placed into the extraction chamber; and moves a vortex plunger disposed over the surface of the organic material in a repeated upward and downward motion during an agitation process so that the vortex vanes generate a fluid vortex in the solvent, wherein the fluid vortex causes the solvent to be drawn upward into the organic material and then to be pushed downward through the organic material so that the solvent extracts essential oils from the organic material.

A separator for separating solid particles from a processing gas stream that has been fed repeatedly through a work machine, wherein the separator includes a processing gas inlet through which particle-laden processing gas emitted from the work machine is fed into the separator, and a filterless separator element to reduce the particle content of the processing gas and a processing gas outlet to discharge the processing gas with its reduced particle content to the work machine, the separator including a secondary stream filter, which filters a smaller portion of the processing gas, and a secondary outlet, connected thereto, which ejects the filtered secondary stream of processing gas.

Described embodiments generally relate to a hydrocyclone for isolating particles within a fluid. The hydrocyclone comprises an upper conical section defining at least one inlet to receive the fluid, a vortex finder extending into the upper conical section, and an overflow port fluidly connected to the vortex finder and configured to expel a portion of the fluid out of the upper conical section; and a lower conical section defining an underflow port to expel the remaining fluid out of the lower conical section, the lower conical section being fluidly connected to the upper conical section to define a single hollow volume. The shape of the hydrocyclone causes particles smaller than a predetermined size to be isolated by expelling the particles from the overflow port.