System and method for four dimensionally separating materials
AssigneeThomas A. VALERIO
InventorThomas A. VALERIO
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Abstract
This application discloses a separator for separating and recovering materials from a waste stream. The separator has a cyclone having a top section and a bottom section, an impeller within the cyclone, a media inlet for accepting a flow of media or a pulsating flow of the media operatively connected to the impeller in which media or fluid flows through the impeller into the separator; a first discharge passage for a collecting a light fraction, and a second discharge passage for collecting a heavy fraction.
Claims20
A separator for separating and recovering materials from a waste stream, the separator comprising:
- a source of the waste stream;
- a cyclone having an impeller, a feed chute, and a media inlet for accepting media, wherein the cyclone has a cylindrical top section and a bottom section, the media inlet is through the impeller, and the waste stream enters the cyclone through the media inlet, the impeller rotates in a first direction about an axis in the cyclone;
- a source of media having a specific gravity between about 1.1 and 3.0, wherein the media enters the impeller through the inlet as a flow of media or a pulsating flow of the media, and the source of media is in fluid connection to the cyclone through the media inlet generating an upward flow within the cyclone;
- a first discharge passage for a collecting a light fraction;
- and a second discharge passage for collecting a heavy fraction.
A separator for separating and recovering materials from a waste stream, the separator comprising:
- a cyclone having a top section and a bottom section,
- an impeller within the cyclone,
- a media inlet for accepting a flow of media or a pulsating flow of the media operatively connected to the impeller, wherein media or fluid flows through the impeller into the separator;
- a first discharge passage for a collecting a light fraction, and
- a second discharge passage for collecting a heavy fraction.
A method for separating and recovering materials from a waste stream, the method comprising:
- feeding media through an impeller into a separator in which the media that has specific gravity between about 1.1 and 3, wherein the separator has a centrifugal motion and a vertical motion therein;
- flowing the a waste stream into the separator that has a specific gravity, wherein the separator has a cyclone that has cylindrical top section and a conical bottom section;
- wherein the impeller generates a centrifugal motion;
- generating an upward flow of the media, wherein the upward flow of media through a bottom inlet generates the upward flow of media and the vertical motion;
- generating a downward flow of the media, collecting light materials that float on a top portion of the separator;
- and collecting heavy materials through a bottom portion of the separator or from the top a a conveyor operatively connected to the bottom of the separator.
A method for separating and recovering materials from a waste stream, the method comprising:
- providing a vessel having a centrifugal motion, an outward motion, an upward motion, and a downward motion therein, wherein the vessel has an impeller to generate centrifugal motion and a chute for the waste stream and media or fluid enters the separator through an impeller;
- feeding the waste stream through the chute to generate the downward motion;
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- providing media into the vessel having a specific gravity between 1.1 to about 3, wherein the media is pulsed and the flow of the media generates an upward motion, and collecting fractions of the materials from the vessel.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.