Mixers are disclosed for the processing of one or more materials to be used, for example, in conjunction with injection molding breaker plates. The disclosed embodiments include the use of multiple integral flow channels having non-linear flow paths that vary in their radial, angular, and axial directions. The cross-section of the flow channels can also vary the nature of distributive and dispersive mixing. A method for the design of the mixers is also disclosed. The use of multiple stages of mixing is also disclosed.

The present disclosure relates to a mixer device having a housing including at least first and second adjacent mixing cells (2, 3), each cell (2, 3) including a fluid inlet opening (21, 31) and a fluid outlet opening (22, 32), the inlet opening being offset from the outlet opening so that the axis of the inlet opening is parallel to the axis of the outlet opening, the outlet opening of the first cell being connected to the inlet opening of the second cell via a connecting channel.

The present disclosure relates to a mixer device having a housing including at least first and second adjacent mixing cells (2, 3), each cell (2, 3) including a fluid inlet opening (21, 31) and a fluid outlet opening (22, 32), the inlet opening being offset from the outlet opening so that the axis of the inlet opening is parallel to the axis of the outlet opening, the outlet opening of the first cell being connected to the inlet opening of the second cell via a connecting channel.

Material flow amplifiers as disclosed herein overcome drawbacks associated with known adverse flow conditions (e.g., surface erosion and head losses) that arise from flow of certain types of materials (e.g., fluids, slurries, particulates, flowable aggregate, and the like) through a material flow conduit. Such material flow amplifiers provide for flow of flowable material within a flow passage of a material flow conduit (e.g., a portion of a pipeline, tubing or the like) to have a cyclonic flow (i.e., vortex or swirling) profile. Advantageously, the cyclonic flow profile centralizes flow toward the central portion of the flow passage, thereby reducing magnitude of laminar flow. Such cyclonic flow profile provides a variety of other advantages as compared to a parabolic flow profile (e.g., increased flow rate, reduce inner pipeline wear, more uniform inner pipe wear, reduction in energy consumption, reduced or eliminated slugging and the like).

Liquid treatment apparatus comprises at least two chambers being first and second chambers through which a fluid can flow. The two chambers are separated by at least one choke nozzle which has an entrance in the first chamber and an exit in the second chamber. The choke nozzle (1) comprises a converging section at its entrance (3), a throat section (4), a backward-facing step (5) immediately after the throat section (4), and an exit section at its exit (6) wherein the exit section (6) diverges from the step (5). Similarly constructed mixing nozzles (1) may be included in the apparatus. The apparatus is especially useful in processes requiring a gas to be entrained in a fluid so that the gas is in the form of very small bubbles that do not tend to coalesce and flash off such as in the dissolution of gold and other precious metals from ore in the removal of arsenic from an ore.

A mixing and dispensing device and method. In particular, the device used by the applied method reduces the risk of chlorine gas formation while providing a stable, effective and safe disinfectant in the form of a hypochlorous add and sodium hypochlorite mixture. The mixing and dispensing device includes a highly concentrated disinfectant and dilutes the concentrate through the device while simultaneously mixing the concentrate with a dilute solution of an organic acid. The two diluted solutions are mixed without production of chlorine gas and to a level of safety before being dispensed to produce the stable, effective and safe neutral pH sodium hypochlorite solution disinfectant in the form of a hypochlorous add and sodium hypochlorite mixture. The mixing and dispensing device can be in the form of a kit for retrofitting into institutions or isolated, remote areas in need thereof or for off the shelf use in the home.

A system for desalting crude oil includes delivering a stream of salty crude oil and wash water into a mixing valve, mixing the stream of salty crude oil and wash water through the mixing valve to create a mixed stream of desalted crude oil and salty wash water, delivering the mixed stream of desalted crude oil and salty wash water to a static mixer, and mixing the mixed stream of crude oil and wash water in the static mixer. Within the static mixer, the mixed stream is mixed in a coalescing regime to coalesce smaller droplets of water into larger droplets of water. The mixed stream is subjected to an electric field to cause additional coalescence before being directed to a desalter where the salty wash water is separated from the desalted crude oil.

The present disclosure relates to a mixer having a mixer housing which encloses a mixing chamber, an input part which can be connected to the mixer housing and has at least two input openings for the components to be mixed, and a mixing element, at least some sections of which extend into the mixing chamber, wherein each of the input openings is flow-connected to the mixing chamber via at least one input duct, wherein there is also in the input part at least one compensation duct which connects the input openings to each other, and/or at least one holding chamber is provided in the mixing element.

An ultrafine bubble water manufacturing device includes a whirlpool pump, an ejector, a cascade pump, a branch portion on the downstream side of the cascade pump, a return path which communicates from the branch portion between the ejector and the cascade pump, a flow rate adjusting valve and a first ultrafine bubble manufacturing unit interposed in the return path, an emission path which communicates with the branch portion, a second ultrafine bubble manufacturing unit interposed in the emission path and a control device. The control device controls an air amount adjusting valve, the whirlpool pump, the cascade pump and the flow rate adjusting valve based on the measurement values of a concentration meter for the emission path and first and second pressure gauges and on the downstream and upstream sides of the cascade pump.

An ultrafine bubble water manufacturing device includes a whirlpool pump, an ejector, a cascade pump, a branch portion on the downstream side of the cascade pump, a return path which communicates from the branch portion between the ejector and the cascade pump, a flow rate adjusting valve and a first ultrafine bubble manufacturing unit interposed in the return path, an emission path which communicates with the branch portion, a second ultrafine bubble manufacturing unit interposed in the emission path and a control device. The control device controls an air amount adjusting valve, the whirlpool pump, the cascade pump and the flow rate adjusting valve based on the measurement values of a concentration meter for the emission path and first and second pressure gauges and on the downstream and upstream sides of the cascade pump.