Methods and systems for mixing fluids
AssigneeEkona Power Inc.
InventorsTim Coleman, Kenneth William Kratschmar, David Aaron Leboe, Christopher Edwin John Reid
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Abstract
A mixing chamber is loaded with a first fluid. While a volume of the first fluid within the mixing chamber is constant, first and second streams of a second fluid are injected into the mixing chamber along first and second injection directions. As a result of injecting the first and second streams of the second fluid into the mixing chamber, the first and second streams of the second fluid impinge one another so as to generate within the mixing chamber at least one further stream of the second fluid that mixes with the first fluid and that flows in a direction different to the first and second injection directions.
Claims26
A method of mixing a first fluid with a second fluid, comprising:
- loading, via an inlet valve, a mixing chamber with a first fluid, and then sealing the mixing chamber;
- and
- while a volume of the first fluid within the sealed mixing chamber is constant:
- injecting a first stream of the second fluid into the sealed mixing chamber along a first injection direction;
- and
- injecting a second stream of the second fluid into the sealed mixing chamber along a second injection direction that intersects the first injection direction,
- wherein, as a result of injecting the first and second streams of the second fluid into the sealed mixing chamber, the first and second streams of the second fluid impinge one another so as to generate within the sealed mixing chamber at least one further stream of the second fluid that mixes with the first fluid and that flows in a direction different to the first and second injection directions.
A method of mixing a first fluid with a second fluid, comprising:
- loading a mixing chamber with a first fluid;
- injecting a first stream of the second fluid into the mixing chamber along a first injection direction;
- and
- injecting a second stream of the second fluid into the mixing chamber along a second injection direction that intersects the first injection direction, wherein, as a result of injecting the first and second streams of the second fluid into the mixing chamber, the first and second streams of the second fluid impinge one another so as to generate within the mixing chamber at least one further stream of the second fluid that mixes with the first fluid and that flows in a direction different to the first and second injection directions,
- wherein:
- injecting the first stream into the mixing chamber comprises injecting the first stream from a first fluid injector;
- and
- injecting the second stream into the mixing chamber comprises injecting the second stream from a second fluid injector,
- and wherein:
- the method further comprises injecting from a third fluid injector a third stream of the second fluid into the mixing chamber;
- and
- the third fluid injector is adjacent the first fluid injector and spaced from the first fluid injector by a distance of about 2-20 times a diameter of the mixing chamber.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.