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US 2013/0259671 A1Published application
System for drawing solid feed into and/or out of a solid feed pump
AssigneeGeneral Electric Company
InventorThomas Frederick Leininger
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Abstract
A system includes a solid feed pump. The solid feed pump includes a housing, a rotor disposed in the housing, a curved passage disposed between the rotor and the housing, a solid feed inlet coupled to the curved passage, a solid feed outlet coupled to the curved passage, and a rotatable sleeve configured to rotate to actively draw solid feed into the solid feed inlet or out of the solid feed outlet.
Claims20
A system, comprising:
- a solid feed pump, comprising:
- a housing;
- a rotor disposed in the housing;
- a curved passage disposed between the rotor and the housing;
- a solid feed inlet coupled to the curved passage;
- a solid feed outlet coupled to the curved passage;
- and
- a rotatable sleeve configured to rotate to actively draw solid feed into the solid feed inlet or out of the solid feed outlet.
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A system, comprising:
- a rotatable sleeve configured to couple to a solid feed inlet or a solid feed outlet of a solid feed pump and to rotate to actively draw solid feed into the solid feed inlet or out of the solid feed outlet, wherein the rotatable sleeve comprises a hollow cylinder, an inner surface, and at least one spiral ridge that extends away from the inner surface into a flow of the solid feed.
A system, comprising:
- a solid feed pump, comprising:
- a housing;
- a rotor disposed in the housing;
- a solid feed passage disposed between the rotor and the housing;
- a solid feed inlet coupled to the solid feed passage;
- a solid feed outlet coupled to the solid feed passage;
- a rotatable sleeve disposed within the solid feed inlet, wherein the rotatable sleeve is configured to rotate to actively draw solid feed into the solid feed inlet;
- and
- a vibrator spool piece coupled to an upstream end of the solid feed inlet, wherein the vibrator spool piece comprises a vibrator centrally located within the vibrator spool piece, the vibrator extends into an opening of the rotatable sleeve in a direction of the solid feed flow, and the vibrator is configured to actively conduct solid feed into the solid feed inlet.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.