US 12,715,004 B2Granted

Method and apparatus for removing contaminants from a fluid stream

AssigneeMage LLC

InventorsRobert E. Miller, Scott E. Miller, Franklin N. Koontz

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Abstract

A solids dissociation apparatus that is used to remove various types of contaminants from a continuous fluid stream. The solids dissociation apparatus includes a housing. The solids dissociation apparatus also includes at least one insert that is operably engaged with the housing where the at least one insert is adapted to receive a continuous fluid stream. The solids dissociation apparatus also includes a transducer that is operably engaged with the housing and disposed about the at least one insert at a distance away from the at least one insert inside of the housing. The transducer is configured to create cavitation inside of the housing, via sonic waves, to eviscerate contaminants in the continuous fluid stream flowing through the at least one insert.

Claims20

Dependent claims

A solids dissociation apparatus, comprising:

a housing;
at least one insert operably engaged with the housing, wherein the at least one insert is adapted to receive a continuous fluid stream, the at least one insert further comprises:
an outer wall extending between a first wall and an opposing second wall of the at least one insert;
and
an inner wall extending between the first wall and the second wall of the at least one insert;
wherein at least one fluid passage is defined between the outer wall and the inner wall;
and wherein the at least one fluid passage is adapted to isolate cavitation of the continuous fluid stream with contaminants inside of the at least one insert remote from a transducer;
wherein the transducer is operably engaged with the housing and disposed about the at least one insert at a distance away from the at least one insert inside of the housing, wherein the transducer is configured to create cavitation inside of the housing, via sonic waves, to eviscerate the contaminants in the continuous fluid stream flowing through the at least one insert;
and
a pressurized chamber defined by the housing, wherein the pressurized chamber is configured to hold a continuous sonic optimization fluid to allow the transducer to generate cavitation in the continuous sonic optimization fluid.

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A solids dissociation apparatus, comprising:

a housing;
at least one insert operably engaged with the housing, wherein the at least one insert is adapted to receive a continuous fluid stream;
a transducer operably engaged with the housing and disposed about the at least one insert relative to a longitudinal axis of said at least one insert at a distance away from the at least one insert inside of the housing, wherein the transducer is configured to create cavitation inside of the housing and circumferentially about the at least one insert, via sonic waves, to eviscerate contaminants in the continuous fluid stream flowing through the at least one insert;
a pressurized chamber defined by the housing, wherein the pressurized chamber is configured to hold a continuous sonic optimization fluid to allow the transducer to generate cavitation in the continuous sonic optimization fluid;
and
at least one fluid passage defined by the at least one insert, wherein the at least one fluid passage is adapted to eviscerating the contaminants in the continuous fluid stream inside of the at least one insert isolated from the pressurized chamber and remote from the transducer.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/671,836Filed 15 Feb 2022 · us provisional application
Priority: 10 Dec 2021
Published: US 2023/0182145 A115 Jun 2023
Granted: 25 Aug 2026
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification17 codes

B02C 19/18
Other disintegrating devices or methods: use of auxiliary physical effects, e.g. ultrasonic waves or irradiation, for disintegrating
B01D 43/00
Separating particles from liquids, or liquids from solids, otherwise than by sedimentation
B02C 23/36
Adding fluid, other than for crushing or disintegrating by fluid energy: the crushing or disintegrating zone being submerged in liquid
C02F 1/36
With mechanical oscillations: ultrasonic vibrations