An improved modular hydrocyclone and method of operating for centrifugal cleaning fluid wherein the hydrocyclone has a plurality of inserts each of different sizes and configurations for selectively and interchangeably inserting into the modular body thereby adjusting capacity and cleaning efficiency of the hydrocyclone without changing out the body. One or more embodiments relate to systems and methods for utilizing a hydrocyclone system with interchangeble components.

A device for separating and extracting suspended solids and particles from a fluid is shown. The device can include a hydro-cyclonic process unit, a variable geometry vortex process unit, a reverse coalescence and flocculation process unit and a fixed geometry vortices separator process unit. The fluid to be treated can enter the device through a fluid inlet and travel and recirculate through the several process units. The process units can collectively induce vorticose separation of the fluid and separate suspended solids and particles within the fluid. The suspended solids and particles can then be extracted from the device via one or more extraction fluid outlets. After the desired amount of suspended solids and particles has been removed, the processed fluid can be discharged from the device.

A device for separating and extracting suspended solids and particles from a fluid is shown. The device can include a hydro-cyclonic process unit, a variable geometry vortex process unit, a reverse coalescence and flocculation process unit and a fixed geometry vortices separator process unit. The fluid to be treated can enter the device through a fluid inlet and travel and recirculate through the several process units. The process units can collectively induce vorticose separation of the fluid and separate suspended solids and particles within the fluid. The suspended solids and particles can then be extracted from the device via one or more extraction fluid outlets. After the desired amount of suspended solids and particles has been removed, the processed fluid can be discharged from the device.

An inertial vortex particle scrubber includes a housing having an inlet guide, twin vortex chambers and an outlet. A particle-laden air stream is accelerated as it passes through the inlet guide into the twin vortex chambers where particles are displaced by centrifugal forces toward a wall of the twin vortex chambers. A relatively particle-free air stream is then discharged from the outlet.

An inertial vortex particle scrubber includes a housing having an inlet guide, twin vortex chambers and an outlet. A particle-laden air stream is accelerated as it passes through the inlet guide into the twin vortex chambers where particles are displaced by centrifugal forces toward a wall of the twin vortex chambers. A relatively particle-free air stream is then discharged from the outlet.

Disclosed is a device for cooling particulate materials or particles, in particular granulates of polymeric materials, having an outer container with an, in particular frustoconical, outer shell surface and an inner container, which is arranged at least in sections in the interior of the outer container, with an, in particular frustoconical, inner shell surface, wherein an intermediate space is formed between the outer shell surface and the inner shell surface, wherein an inlet equipment for introducing a gas flow as well as the particles into the intermediate space is provided in an inlet-side initial region of the device, and wherein an outlet opening for the particles is provided in an outlet-side end region of the device opposite the inlet equipment, wherein the inlet equipment is so arranged and/or designed that the gas flow as well as the particles can be introduced substantially tangentially into the intermediate space.

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 compact disc stack cyclone separator includes: a fluid inlet; a vortex generator which generates a forced vortex; a conical or cylindrical vortex generating chamber; a separation chamber which is a cavity formed by downstream open ends of stacked truncated cones; narrow gaps between the stacked truncated cones, a collecting channel for heavy phrase fluid from the gaps between the stacked truncated cones which installed about the outlets of the gaps at upstream open end of the stacked truncated cones to channel heavy phrase fluid to a storage chamber of heavy phrase fluid; and an outlet for heavy phrase fluid to flow out from the storage chamber of heavy phrase fluid, while the outlet of light phrase fluid is annexed to the downstream open end of the last stacked truncated cone which is the downstream open end of separation chamber.

A compact disc stack cyclone separator includes: a fluid inlet; a vortex generator which generates a forced vortex; a conical or cylindrical vortex generating chamber; a separation chamber which is a cavity formed by downstream open ends of stacked truncated cones; narrow gaps between the stacked truncated cones, a collecting channel for heavy phrase fluid from the gaps between the stacked truncated cones which installed about the outlets of the gaps at upstream open end of the stacked truncated cones to channel heavy phrase fluid to a storage chamber of heavy phrase fluid; and an outlet for heavy phrase fluid to flow out from the storage chamber of heavy phrase fluid, while the outlet of light phrase fluid is annexed to the downstream open end of the last stacked truncated cone which is the downstream open end of separation chamber.