Installation and method with improved performance for forming a compact film of particles on the surface of a carrier fluid
AssigneeCommissariat A L'energie Atomique Et Aux Energies Alternatives
InventorsOlivier DELLEA, Pascal FUGIER
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Abstract
An installation for forming a compact film of particles on a surface of a carrier fluid, including a zone acting as a reservoir of carrier fluid, an inclined ramp, a particle storage and transfer zone, a mechanism moving the carrier fluid, a mechanism for dispensing the particles in solution, configured to dispense the particles on the surface of the carrier fluid in the zone acting as a reservoir, and a structure for deflecting the particles configured to favor, along a transverse direction of the installation, spreading of the particles at the outlet of the zone acting as a reservoir. The structure for deflecting particles is permeable to the carrier fluid.
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1-18. (canceled)
An installation for forming a compact film of particles on a surface of a carrier fluid, the installation comprising:
- a zone acting as a carrier fluid reservoir;
- an inclined ramp situated extending from the zone acting as a reservoir and whereon the particles can circulate gravitationally;
- a particle storage and transfer zone situated extending from the inclined ramp;
- means for moving the carrier fluid intended to make the carrier fluid circulate from the zone acting as a reservoir to the particle storage and transfer zone, via the inclined ramp;
- means for dispensing the particles in solution, configured to dispense the particles on the surface of the carrier fluid in the zone acting as a reservoir;
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- a structure for deflecting particles, passing through the surface of the carrier fluid into the zone acting as a reservoir, the structure positioned downstream from the means for dispensing particles along a main flow direction of the carrier fluid from the zone acting as a reservoir to the particle storage and transfer zone, via the inclined ramp, the structure configured to favor, along a transverse direction of the installation parallel with the surface of the carrier fluid and orthogonal to a main flow direction, spreading of the particles at an outlet of the zone acting as a reservoir;
- wherein the structure for deflecting particles is permeable to the carrier fluid.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.