A personal formulation device for mixing and dispensing customized formulations from ingredient reservoirs carried by the device. The device may include a plurality of miniaturized progressive pumps with a flexible coupling between the motor and the pump. The coupling may include a spring (40). The device may include a spacer sleeve (62) having an internal diameter tapered to closely follow the motion envelope of the spring (40). Each pump may include a retainer (60) that is threaded into the interior of the pump body (52) to retain the spacer sleeve (62) and the drive end (120) of the rotor (34). Each pump may include a stator with an integrated flange seal (36). The flange seal (36) may extend around the circumference of the stator and be sandwiched between portions of the pump body (52). The stator may have a noncircular shape that keys the stator within the pump body. The pump may include an optical metering system.

Provided is an emulsion matrix ground station with intrinsic safety, which relates to the technical field of emulsion matrix preparation process and apparatus of mobile ground auxiliary equipment in civil explosive industry. The emulsion matrix ground station may include a water phase tank, an oil phase tank, a water phase pump, an oil phase pump and a static emulsification device. The water phase pump may have an inlet connected to an outlet of the water phase tank by a pipeline, and an outlet connected to a water phase inlet of the static emulsification device by a pipeline. The oil phase pump may have an inlet connected to an outlet of the oil phase tank by a pipeline, and an outlet connected to an oil phase inlet of the static emulsification device by a pipeline.

Disclosed herein is a device and method for changing the conditions of a solution flowing in a serial path. In particular, disclosed herein is a device that includes a chemical reactor, a first system, and a second system that are each serial to one another. Each of the first system and the second system include a mixing chamber, a solvent reservoir, a solvent pump, and one or more detectors. Also disclosed herein is a method for changing the condition of a solution that includes flowing a liquid sample in a path, serially mixing the sample with at least two discrete solvents while it flows through the path, and detecting the condition of the sample after it is mixed with each solvent.

Providing a method for generating and releasing 1-MCP gas from a complex carrier through the use of a 1-MCP generator that enables the application of at least one physical, releasing force to a carrier complex and/or mixture comprising water and the carrier complex, or the interaction of steam with a carrier complex and/or mixture comprising water and the carrier complex, over a determined period of time.

Provided is an ultrafine bubble generation device. A device 10 includes a rotary blower 31a, a rotary mixer 11, and a bubble shear filter 21. The rotary mixer 11 includes a hollow part 13 including a vertex X inside, an inflow hole 12 for introducing a fluid and a discharge hole 16. In an inner wall surface of the hollow part 13, a groove 14 having a spiral shape for the fluid introduced from the inflow hole 12 is provided, and the discharge hole 16 is provided away from the vertex X of the spiral shape on an axis of the spiral shape. The bubble shear filter 21 is provided with a hollow part inside, and includes an inflow hole 24 for introducing the fluid into the hollow part, and a discharge hole 26 for discharging the fluid. The hollow part is tubular, a plurality of plate-like thin plates 22 and 23 are arranged perpendicularly to a central axis of the hollow part such that the central axis passes through a center point of each circular plate, adjacent thin plates are provided with a plurality of openings and a plurality of pointed end portions, and a pointed end portion 25a and an opening 25b of the adjacent thin plates are arranged to face each other.

The invention is an apparatus for preparing a chemical solution. A device of the present invention includes a housing including a lower chamber and an upper chamber and a dissolving bowl arranged at an interface of the lower chamber and upper chamber. The dissolving bowl includes a grid disposed within. Solid, undissolved chemical material rests on a top surface of the grid, such that the grid is able to maintain physical separation of the solid, undissolved chemical material from at least a bottom portion of the dissolving bowl. The device further includes a nozzle disposed within the dissolving bowl and positioned so as to direct flow of aqueous fluid into the dissolving bowl and towards the grid. The dissolving bowl further includes an outlet in fluid communication with the lower chamber to thereby allow for a prepared chemical solution to flow from the dissolving bowl into the lower chamber.

A vending machine for dispensing selected quantities of distinct perfumes comprises a plurality of containers (70) stored within an air-cooled compartment (3), each container filled with a distinct perfume, a plurality of independent perfume supply circuits assigned to circulation of each distinct perfume comprising one container (70) containing this distinct perfume, a pump (80) assigned to pumping this perfume, the pump connected by means of a flexible pipe (81) to the container (70) and by means of a flexible pipe (82) to one of an equivalent plurality of tubular needles (83) assigned to supplying this distinct perfume. Rotatable perfume bottling assembly units (50) comprising a circumferential arrangement of tubular needles (83) are provided with associated perfume bottle filling drive units (90) adapted to handle delivery of a desired distinct perfume from a specific container (70) into a bottle (41) in a perfume purchase operation.

An arrangement (2; 32) for adding a first fluid component into a flow system (1; 31), said arrangement comprising: a first pump (3; 33) provided in a first component adding fluid line (5; 35) which is connecting a first system fluid line (9; 39) of the flow system (1; 31) with a first fluid component source (7; 37) comprising the first fluid component to be added into the flow system; and a second pump (13; 43) provided in a second component adding fluid line (15; 45) connected in parallel with the first component adding fluid line (5; 35), said second component adding fluid line (15; 45) connecting the first system fluid line (9; 39) of the flow system with a first fluid component source (7; 47) comprising the first fluid component to be added into the flow system.

A method is provided for producing fine-bubble water by resonance foaming and vacuum cavitation, and a device for manufacturing each of ultra-fine-bubble water of hydrogen gas having a reducing radical function, ultra-fine-bubble water of air and oxygen gas having an oxidizing radical function, ozone ultra-fine-bubble water having a sterilization function enabled by ozone, and fine-bubble water of nitrogen/carbon dioxide gas for increasing the ability to preserve the freshness of raw agricultural products, livestock products, and marine products.

A functional water producing apparatus in an embodiment includes: a water pressure regulator configured to regulate the water pressure of the ultrapure water, the water pressure regulator having a pressure regulating valve configured to regulate a water pressure of the ultrapure water to an almost constant pressure and a feed water pump configured to pressurize the ultrapure water; a dissolving device configured to dissolve functional gas imparting a specific function in the ultrapure water regulated the water pressure by the water pressure regulator; and a control device configured to control the feed water pump to regulate the water pressure of the functional water to a predetermined constant pressure based on a water pressure or a flow rate of the functional water flowing out of the dissolving device.