A micropore ultrasonic disintegration device for sludge cell disintegration is provided, including an ultrasonic treatment chamber. The ultrasonic treatment chamber is internally provided with a first stirring mechanism which includes a reciprocating lead screw. One end of the reciprocating lead screw penetrates through a top surface of the ultrasonic treatment chamber, and the other end of the reciprocating lead screw is provided with stirring blades. The ultrasonic treatment chamber is internally provided with a second stirring mechanism, a side wall of the ultrasonic treatment chamber is provided with a first opening, and an inner wall of the ultrasonic treatment chamber is provided with a switch mechanism. The switch mechanism includes a baffle plate and a second connecting rod. The side wall of the ultrasonic treatment chamber is provided with an ultrasonic generator, and the top surface of the ultrasonic treatment chamber is provided with a liquid inlet pipe.

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 stirring device of a plug-flow fermentation device includes a shaft rotatable about an axis of rotation which defines an axial direction. The stirring device further includes a boundary stirring element that defines the axial extent of a stirring volume covered by the stirring device. A nearest neighbor of the boundary stirring element in the axial direction has an axial maximum width which is smaller than an axial maximum width of the boundary stirring element and which is larger than an axial maximum width of a next-nearest neighbor of the boundary stirring element.

A mixing chamber for mixing a variety of dry ingredients with a liquid is disclosed. The mixing chamber has an accumulation chamber that evenly distributes ingredients as they pass a liquid spray nozzle, resulting in uniform hydration. The liquid may be sprayed at a variety of pressures to achieve varying levels of granule hydration to permit the manufacture of dough, batter, or other compositions. Even dry ingredients which are generally slow to absorb moisture may be rapidly and evenly hydrated without an excess of liquid. Process parameters, such as volume flow rate of the dry ingredients, can also be varied.

A carbonator reactor includes a cylindrical body, a nozzle for supplying a gas stream, inside the carbonator reactor and above the surface of a liquid phase and where the nozzle is located at the top of the reactor body, an inlet, an outlet, means for regulating the temperature and the pressure, a stirring system and at least one baffle regulating the stirring of the liquid phase and the mass transfer of the gas into the liquid surface, at least one impeller having inclined blades that make an angle from 5? to 60? with respect to the vertical axis. The reactor prepares sodium carbonate and has a configuration for the mass transfer of a gas phase in a liquid phase. A method for the preparation of sodium carbonate by means of the carbonator reactor by capturing CO.sub.2 in an NaOH aqueous solution, directly on the free surface of the liquid phase.

A micropore ultrasonic disintegration device for sludge cell disintegration is provided, including an ultrasonic treatment chamber. The ultrasonic treatment chamber is internally provided with a first stirring mechanism which includes a reciprocating lead screw. One end of the reciprocating lead screw penetrates through a top surface of the ultrasonic treatment chamber, and the other end of the reciprocating lead screw is provided with stirring blades. The ultrasonic treatment chamber is internally provided with a second stirring mechanism, a side wall of the ultrasonic treatment chamber is provided with a first opening, and an inner wall of the ultrasonic treatment chamber is provided with a switch mechanism. The switch mechanism includes a baffle plate and a second connecting rod. The side wall of the ultrasonic treatment chamber is provided with an ultrasonic generator, and the top surface of the ultrasonic treatment chamber is provided with a liquid inlet pipe.

An eductor for mixing a primary fluid with a flowable secondary substance includes a primary inlet for the primary fluid, a secondary inlet for the secondary substance, an outlet and a suction chamber, A converging inlet nozzle is provided, which is arranged between the primary inlet and the suction chamber so that the primary fluid can flow from the primary inlet into the suction chamber. An outlet nozzle is provided between the suction chamber and the outlet, through which the primary fluid and the secondary substance can flow to the outlet, and the secondary inlet is provided at the suction chamber so that the secondary substance can flow from the secondary inlet into the suction chamber.

A foam production method includes mixing liquid nitrogen with a foaming material to produce foam. A gas is produced in situ from liquid nitrogen. As the ratio of the volume of the gas produced by gasification of liquid nitrogen to the volume of the liquid nitrogen is relatively high, when a large gas supply flow is needed to generate a large foam flow, a liquid nitrogen storage device of a small volume can be used instead of bulky air supply devices such as high-pressure gas cylinders, air compressors, air compressor sets and the like, reducing the volume of the air supply device. In addition, the liquid nitrogen used in foaming will release nitrogen gas after the foam blast, such that the nitrogen is also able to inhibit combustion on the surface of burning materials, accelerating the extinguishing of the fire.

A device for introducing and entraining a second fluid into a first fluid includes a Venturi device, an output tube, and a static mixer. The static mixer is shaped and dimensioned to slide and fit into the output tube and the output tube with the inserted static mixer is removably attached to an output end of the Venturi device. The static mixer includes a tubular component having an integrated gasket at a first end and fins extending radially from an inner surface of the tubular component and twisting around a central axis of the tubular component.

The invention provides a method of operating a batch mixer for producing first and second numbers of mixtures from first and second numbers of batches of materials to be mixed in the batch mixer, the batch mixer comprising a mixing chamber, a mixing element disposed within the mixing chamber, the mixing element and the mixing chamber being configured for providing an identical flow of the materials to be mixed within the mixing chamber and around the mixing element regardless of in which of the first and second opposite directions the mixing element is rotated, and a motor assembly coupled to the mixing element for rotating the mixing element for mixing the first and second numbers of batches of materials to be mixed for producing the first and second numbers of mixtures. The method comprises the steps of energizing said motor assembly for rotating said mixing element in said first direction, for each one of the first number of batches of the materials to be mixed: loading the one of the first number of batches of materials to be mixed into the mixing chamber, mixing the one of the first number of batches of materials for producing one of the first number of mixtures, and removing the one of the first number of mixtures from the mixing chamber, energizing the motor assembly for rotating the mixing element in the second direction, and for each one of the second number of batches of the materials to be mixed loading the one of the second number of batches of materials to be mixed into the mixing chamber, mixing the one of the second number of batches of materials for producing one of the second number of mixtures, and removing the one of the second number of mixtures from the mixing chamber.