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US 12,734,477 B2Granted
Gas separation device system using waveform disks
OwnerWhitaker B. Irvin, Sr.inventor
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Abstract
A disk-pack turbine for use, for example, in systems and methods in at least one embodiment for separating fluids including liquids and gases into subcomponents by passing the fluid through a vortex chamber into an expansion chamber and then through at least a portion of a waveform pattern present between at least two rotors and/or disks. The rotors and/or disks having waveform patterns on at least one side. In at least one embodiment, the waveform patterns include a plurality of hyperbolic waveforms axially aligned around a horizontal center of the system.
Claims20
A gas separation system comprising:
- an intake chamber;
- a containment vessel connected to the intake chamber, and the containment vessel is configured to attach to a conduit;
- and
- a disk-pack turbine internal to the containment vessel, the disk-pack turbine having
- a top rotor having a receiving cavity and an opening passing through an axial center;
- a first waveform disk having divergent exit ports spaced around a periphery of the first waveform disk, the first waveform disk is in the receiving cavity of the top rotor,
- a bottom rotor having a receiving cavity;
- a second waveform disk having convergent exit ports spaced around a periphery of the second waveform disk, the second waveform disk is in the receiving cavity of the bottom rotor;
- the first and second waveform disks each having matched waveform patterns located on a surface of the disks that include hyperbolic waveforms travelling substantially around an axial center of the disk, and
- the top rotor, the first and second waveform disks, and the bottom rotor define an expansion chamber in fluid communication with the intake chamber such that a fluid pathway is present from above the disk-pack turbine through a top of the expansion chamber and a passageway between the waveform disks to a periphery of the waveform disks.
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A system comprising:
- an intake chamber;
- a containment vessel connected to the intake chamber, and the containment vessel;
- a conduit attached to the containment vessel and extending away from an external surface of the containment vessel;
- and
- a disk-pack turbine internal to the containment vessel, the disk-pack turbine having
- a top rotor having a receiving cavity and an opening passing through an axial center;
- a first waveform disk having divergent exit ports spaced around a periphery of the first waveform disk, the first waveform disk is in the receiving cavity of the top rotor,
- a bottom rotor having a receiving cavity;
- a second waveform disk having convergent exit ports spaced around a periphery of the second waveform disk, the second waveform disk is in the receiving cavity of the bottom rotor;
- the first and second waveform disks each having matched waveform patterns located on a surface of the disks that include hyperbolic waveforms travelling substantially around an axial center of the disk, and
- the top rotor, the first and second waveform disks, and the bottom rotor define an expansion chamber in fluid communication with the intake chamber such that a fluid pathway is present from above the disk-pack turbine through a top of the expansion chamber and a passageway between the waveform disks to a periphery of the waveform disks.
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A system comprising:
- an intake chamber;
- a containment vessel connected to the intake chamber, and the containment vessel is configured to attach to a conduit;
- and
- a disk-pack turbine internal to the containment vessel, the disk-pack turbine having
- a top rotor having a receiving cavity and an opening passing through an axial center;
- a bottom rotor having a receiving cavity;
- a first waveform disk having divergent exit ports spaced around a periphery of the first waveform disk, the first waveform disk is in the receiving cavity of the top rotor or the bottom rotor,
- a second waveform disk having convergent exit ports spaced around a periphery of the second waveform disk, the second waveform disk is in the receiving cavity of the other of the bottom rotor or the top rotor;
- the first and second waveform disks each having matched waveform patterns located on a surface of the disks that include hyperbolic waveforms travelling substantially around an axial center of the disk, and
- the top rotor, the first and second waveform disks, and the bottom rotor define an expansion chamber in fluid communication with the intake chamber such that a fluid pathway is present from above the disk-pack turbine through a top of the expansion chamber and a passageway between the waveform disks to a periphery of the waveform disks.
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