System and method for four dimensionally separating materials
OwnerThomas A. Valerioinventor
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Abstract
This application discloses a separator for separating and recovering materials from a waste stream. The separator has a cyclone having a top section and a bottom section, an impeller within the cyclone, a media inlet for accepting a flow of media or a pulsating flow of the media operatively connected to the impeller in which media or fluid flows through the impeller into the separator; a first discharge passage for a collecting a light fraction, and a second discharge passage for collecting a heavy fraction.
Claims9
A separator for separating and recovering materials from a waste stream, the separator comprising:
- a source of the waste stream;
- a cyclone having an impeller, a feed chute, and a media inlet for accepting media, wherein the cyclone has a cylindrical top section and a bottom section, the media inlet is through the impeller, and the waste stream enters the cyclone through the feed chute, the impeller rotates in a first direction about an axis in the cyclone, and the media inlet is in fluid connection to distribution veins within the impeller;
- a source of media having a specific gravity between about 1.0 and 3.0, wherein the media enters the impeller through the media inlet as a flow of media or a pulsating flow of the media, and the source of media is in fluid connection to the cyclone through the media inlet generating an upward flow within the cyclone;
- a first discharge passage for a collecting a light fraction;
- and a second discharge passage for collecting a heavy fraction.
A separator for separating and recovering materials from a waste stream, the separator comprising a source of the waste stream;
- a cyclone having an impeller, a feed chute, and a media inlet for accepting media, wherein the cyclone has a cylindrical top section and a bottom section, the media inlet is through the impeller, and the waste stream enters the cyclone through feed chute, the impeller rotates in a first direction about an axis in the cyclone, wherein the media inlet is coupled to the impeller by a rotary coupling such that the impeller may rotate independent of the media inlet, a source of media having a specific gravity between about 1.0 and 3.0, the media enters the impeller through the media inlet as a flow of media or a pulsating flow of the media, and the source of media is in fluid connection to the cyclone through the media inlet generating an upward flow within the cyclone;
- and a first discharge passage for a collecting a light fraction;
- and a second discharge passage for collecting a heavy fraction.
A separator for separating and recovering materials from a waste stream, the separator comprising:
- a cyclone having a top section and a bottom section, an impeller have a top section and bottom section and positioned within the cyclone, a media inlet for accepting a flow of media or a pulsating flow of the media operatively connected to the impeller, wherein media or fluid flows through the impeller into the separator;
- a first discharge passage for a collecting a light fraction, a second discharge passage for collecting a heavy fraction;
- and the media inlet is in fluid connection to distribution veins within the impeller.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.