Rotary device for conducting chemical reactions
AssigneeCoolbrook Oy
InventorsLiping Xu, Budimir Rosic
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Abstract
An apparatus 100 for conducting chemical reactions in a process fluid is provided, comprising a central shaft 1 with a number of axial-radial rotors 3 mounted thereon, a plurality of stationary vanes 2 disposed upstream the rotor and a mixing space 4 disposed downstream of the rotor, wherein the mixing space is configured to convert mechanical energy imparted to the process fluid by the rotor into internal energy of said process fluid and to establish conditions for an at least one chemical reaction in the process fluid to occur. Related arrangement, method and uses of the apparatus are further provided.
Claims42
An apparatus for conducting chemical reactions in a process fluid, comprising
- a central shaft with a number of axial-radial rotors mounted thereon, each said rotor comprises a plurality of axial-radial rotor blades arranged over a circumference of a disk mounted onto the central shaft,
- a plurality of stationary vanes disposed upstream the rotor, and
- a mixing space provided as a vaneless and/or vaned mixing space disposed downstream of the rotor,
- wherein the mixing space is configured to convert mechanical energy imparted to the process fluid by the rotor into internal energy of said process fluid and to establish conditions for an at least one chemical reaction in the process fluid to occur.
A method for conducting chemical reactions in a process fluid, comprising:
- a. obtaining an apparatus comprising:
- a central shaft with a number of axial-radial rotors mounted thereon, each said rotor comprises a plurality of axial-radial rotor blades arranged over the circumference of a disk mounted onto the central shaft,
- a plurality of stationary vanes disposed upstream the rotor, and
- a mixing space disposed downstream of the rotor, wherein the plurality of stationary vanes, the plurality of axial-radial rotor blades and the mixing space establish a process stage;
- b. adjusting the rotation speed of the rotor to a predetermined speed or a speed range to reach the process fluid flow rate that satisfies the requirements imposed by the process;
- c. adjusting a preheating level of the feedstock containing process fluid;
- d. directing a feedstock containing process fluid flow subsequently through the at least one stage such, that in the mixing space mechanical energy imparted to the process fluid by the rotor is converted into internal energy of said process fluid, thus promoting chemical reactions in the process fluid to occur.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.