Acoustic mixers
AssigneeThe Falcon Project Ltd.
InventorsDaniel Jubb, Mark Price, David Price, Kenneth Lewtas
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Abstract
A processing vessel (1) provided with a material inlet (2, 3, 4, 5) and a processed material outlet (25) wherein the material flows continuously through the vessel which is split into a series of zones (6, 7, 8) through which the material passes wherein the zones are shielded from each other by controlling the rate at which the material flows and an increasing level of vacuum is applied inconsecutive zones and the system is provided with acoustic energy which imparts energy to the process material by virtue of the contact between the zone dividers and the process material and processing material in such a vessel.
Claims9
A process for processing materials wherein materials are fed to and pass through a process vessel divided into a series of zones by dividers;
- wherein the dividers include one or more holes for the passage of the materials through the vessel;
- wherein each zone in the series of zones includes a shield that allows for differential pressure to be applied to the each zone;
- wherein the shield includes sufficient process materials covering the one or more holes, whilst also allowing for passage of the process materials through the one or more holes during processing, in order to form a hermetic seal or an intermittent hermetic seal;
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- wherein progressively increasing vacuum is applied to consecutive zones in the series of zones in the process vessel;
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- wherein acoustic energy is applied to the process vessel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.