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.
Claims27
A method of mixing a first fluid with a second fluid, comprising:
- loading a mixing chamber with a first fluid;
- and
- while a volume of the first fluid within the mixing chamber is constant:
- 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.
The method of 15, wherein the hydrocarbon is methane or natural gas.
A system for mixing a first fluid with a second fluid, comprising:
- a mixing chamber having an inlet and an outlet;
- a first fluid flow channel defining a first injection direction into the mixing chamber;
- a second fluid flow channel defining a second injection direction into the mixing chamber;
- valving for controlling flow of the first and second fluids into the mixing chamber;
- and
- a controller configured to:
- control the valving so as to load the first fluid into the mixing chamber via the inlet;
- while a volume of the first fluid within the mixing chamber is constant:
- control the valving so as to inject via the first fluid flow channel a first stream of the second fluid into the mixing chamber along the first injection direction;
- control the valving so as to inject via the second fluid flow channel a second stream of the second fluid into the mixing chamber along the second 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;
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- control the valving as to evacuate the mixed first and second fluids from the mixing chamber via the outlet.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.