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US 11,958,760 B2Granted
Atomizer for use in water treatment and method for its use
OwnerKelly Rockinventor
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Abstract
An atomizer for use in a water treatment system includes an influent inlet, to receive a flow of fluid containing contaminants a gas flow inlet, to receive a flow of gas to be mixed with the fluid in a mixing zone, an airflow controlling component, including an array of vanes disposed between the gas flow inlet and the mixing zone to impart a rotational component to a direction of flow of the gas. A channel receives the flow of fluid containing contaminants, and conducts the flow of fluid containing contaminants to the mixing zone, wherein radially outwardly flowing fluid containing contaminants is mixed with radially inwardly flowing gas to atomize the fluid containing contaminants, and an outlet.
Claims11
An atomizer comprising:
- an influent inlet, configured and arranged to receive a flow of fluid containing contaminants;
- a gas flow inlet, configured and arranged to receive a flow of gas to be mixed with the fluid in a mixing zone;
- an airflow controlling component, the airflow controlling component comprising a plurality of vanes, the vanes being disposed between the gas flow inlet and the mixing zone, and configured and arranged to impart a rotational component to a direction of flow of the gas, the airflow controlling component further having a downstream face that is arranged adjacent to and spaced apart from a cooperating upstream face of a second component, the downstream face of the airflow controlling component and the cooperating upstream face of the second component together defining the mixing zone;
- the second component further defining a channel, in fluid communication with the influent inlet and configured to receive the flow of fluid containing contaminants, and to conduct the flow of fluid containing contaminants to the mixing zone, the channel and mixing zone being configured such that, in use, radially outwardly flowing fluid containing contaminants is mixed with radially inwardly flowing gas to atomize the fluid containing contaminants;
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- an outlet, configured and arranged to receive atomized material from the mixing zone and to output the atomized material received from the mixing zone,
- wherein adjacent pairs of vanes of the plurality of vanes define a channel therebetween, the channel being angled relative to an axial direction of the airflow controlling component, an upstream portion of the channel and a downstream portion of the channel having different angles relative to each other.
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A water treatment system comprising:
- a blower motor, configured and arranged to blow a mixture of air and influent containing contaminants through the system;
- a primary evaporator, including an atomizer comprising:
- an influent inlet, configured and arranged to receive a flow of fluid containing contaminants;
- a gas flow inlet, configured and arranged to receive a flow of gas to be mixed with the fluid in a mixing zone;
- an airflow controlling component, the airflow controlling component comprising a plurality of vanes, the vanes being disposed between the gas flow inlet and the mixing zone, and configured and arranged to impart a rotational component to a direction of flow of the gas, the airflow controlling component further having a downstream face that is arranged adjacent to and spaced apart from a cooperating upstream face of a second component, the downstream face of the airflow controlling component and the cooperating upstream face of the second component together defining the mixing zone;
- the second component further defining a channel, in fluid communication with the influent inlet and configured to receive the flow of fluid containing contaminants, and to conduct the flow of fluid containing contaminants to the mixing zone, the channel and mixing zone being configured such that, in use, radially outwardly flowing fluid containing contaminants is mixed with radially inwardly flowing gas to atomize the fluid containing contaminants;
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- wherein adjacent pairs of vanes of the plurality of vanes define a channel therebetween, the channel being angled relative to an axial direction of the airflow controlling component, an upstream portion of the channel and a downstream portion of the channel having different angles relative to each other.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.