An apparatus for preparing a liquid material containing microbubbles includes a dispensing nozzle and a first positive displacement gas pump. The dispensing nozzles includes a material mixing channel, a rotary gas diffuser positioned in the material mixing channel, and a rotary mixer positioned in the material mixing channel downstream of the rotary gas diffuser. The rotary gas diffuser and the rotary mixer rotate about a common axis of rotation. The first positive displacement pump has a first gas outlet opening to the material mixing channel, which is directed at an outer circumference of the rotary gas diffuser.

A material wetting system for wetting a powder material includes a liquid supply system, a material mixing unit, a material supply system, and a shroud assembly. The liquid supply system includes a supply line. The material mixing unit is in fluid communication with the supply line and includes a central cavity having an open upper end configured to receive a supply of powder material. The material mixing unit is configured to receive liquid from the supply line and is operatively connected to a reduced pressure source to draw air into the central cavity. The material supply system includes an orifice and is configured to feed powder material through the orifice, with the orifice disposed above the central cavity of the material mixing unit. The shroud assembly is disposed about the open upper end of the central cavity of the material mixing unit and the orifice of the material supply system.

The problem addressed by the present invention is providing a fluid processing method including extraction that can extract material to be extracted continuously with high efficiency. In a thin film fluid formed between at least two processing surfaces (1, 2) disposed facing each other so as to be able to approach to and separate from each other such that at least one rotates relative to the other, a fluid processing that extracts at least one kind of material to be extracted in at least one kind of the extraction solvent that can extract that material to be extracted is carried out. In addition, the fluid containing at least one kind of material to be extracted and a fluid for extraction that contains the at least one kind of extraction solvent are mixed in the thin film fluid formed between the at least two processing surfaces (1, 2) disposed facing each other so as to be able to approach to and separate from each other such that at least one rotates relative to the other, and a fluid processing process that extracts the at least one kind of material to be extracted into the at least one kind of extraction solvent is carried out.

A sterile liquid pump, having replaceable single use components, with a first and second chamber, and a gas valve assembly to selectively communicate gas pressure and vacuum with the chambers, and a resilient tubing liquid manifold loop with a sequence of four ports located within a manifold receiver that supports four pinch actuators aligned to engage and selectively pinch-off flow through the manifold between adjacent pairs ports, and, a controller that operates the valve assembly to alternatingly couple pressure and vacuum to the pump chambers, and that also operates to alternatingly actuate pairs of the pinch actuators to sequentially pump fluid from pump chambers under gas pressure, and through an opposing pair of ports in the resilient tubing manifold.

A truck for loading emulsion explosive in field with intrinsic safety, with its key improvement being a static emulsification device and a static sensitizing device to perform emulsification and sensitization, wherein, an outlet of the static emulsification device is connected with a transporting hose, a terminal end of a sensitizer storage transporting system is connected to a starting end of the transporting hose, and the static sensitizing device is arranged at a terminal end of the transporting hose. Its advantages include the transporting of emulsion explosive product is avoided, thereby reducing safety risk; on the other hand, the emulsification device and sensitizing device utilized by this truck both have static structure, so that there exists no shear or mechanical friction during the emulsification and sensitizing process, thereby reducing sensitivity, preventing explosion form happening in the production process, and ensuring production safety.

Provided is an intensifier capable of cleaning a portion where pressurized raw material adheres without disassembling the inside. The intensifier for pressurizing raw material using medium supplied from a driving pump including: a low-pressure cylinder to which the medium is supplied; a high-pressure cylinder fixed to the low-pressure cylinder; a piston that slides inside the low-pressure cylinder and the high-pressure cylinder by the medium supplied to the low-pressure cylinder; a bottom adapter that pivotally supports the piston; and a resin portion disposed on an inner periphery of the bottom adapter.

A generative scent design system has a frame, an input receiver, an input processor, a dispenser, a container, and a filling platform. The dispenser has a dosing station and a storage compartment. The dosing station and the filling platform are attached to the frame. The dosing station has a plurality of pumps. The heating system regulates its associated pump's temperature. The storage compartment has scent vessels that contain a respective scent. Each pump with an inlet and an outlet is associated with a respective heating system and respective scent; in fluid communication through the inlet with the scent vessel containing the respective scent; and configured to dispense its respective scent through the outlet. The container is movably positioned on the filling platform to receive the respective scent from each pump. The input receiver receives data. The input processor calculates the data to determine a formulation of respective scents.

The present disclosure provides a system for the internal and external modification of nanoparticles in a continuous process. The system includes (a) a first inlet, (b) a second inlet, (c) a first pump in fluid communication with the first inlet, (d) a second pump in fluid communication with the second inlet, (e) a first flow meter positioned between the first pump and the first mixer, (f) a second flow meter positioned between the second pump and the first mixer, and (g) a mixing chamber in fluid communication with the first flow meter and the second flow meter, and (h) a first heat exchanger in fluid communication with the mixing chamber.

Systems and methods for managing bulk material efficiently at a well site are provided. The disclosure is directed to a container support frame that is integrated into a blender unit. The support frame is used to receive one or more portable containers of bulk material, and the blender unit may include a gravity feed outlet for outputting bulk material from the containers directly into a mixer of the blender unit. The blender unit with integrated support frame may eliminate the need for any subsequent mechanical conveyance of the bulk material (e.g., via a separate mechanical conveying system or on-blender sand screws) from the containers to the mixer. As such, the integrated blender unit may be lighter weight, take up less space, and have a lower cost and complexity than existing blenders.

In accordance with presently disclosed embodiments, systems and methods for efficiently managing bulk material are provided. The disclosure is directed to systems and methods for efficiently combining additives into bulk material being transferred about a job site. The systems may include a support structure used to receive one or more portable containers of bulk material, and a mulling device disposed beneath the support structure to provide bulk material treatment capabilities. Specifically, the mulling device may facilitate mixing of coatings or other additives with bulk material that is released from the portable containers, as well as transfer of the mixture to an outlet location.