Universal Construction for Storing, Pumping, Mixing, Diffusing, Reacting, and Separating Fluids
OwnerGideon Samidinventor
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Abstract
A construction and a methodology for handling common fluid unit operations: pumping, mixing, separating, reacting, diffusing, storing. A single universal design is parametrized per each unit operation. The construction is modular, basic unit operations are fit together into concise, efficient, manufacturing process. Designed to fit into AI-guided process control.
Claims16
A Fluid Operating System, FOS, constructed to carry out pumping, mixing, diffusing, reacting, separating, waving, and storing fluids;
- constructed as a fluid containing ‘sleeve’, fitted with one or more pistons capable of independently moving back and forth inside the sleeve, and where (i) these pistons are drilled with various holes, where each hole can be either in a closed state or in an open state;
- the holes are drilled from one surface of the piston to the other;
- in one embodiment the holes are drilled directly into the piston;
- in another embodiment the holes are drilled onto one or more rotating discs fitted into the piston;
- in one embodiment the piston has a circular contour and can rotate snugly inside the sleeve;
- the lateral movement of each piston, the rotation of each piston, or the rotation of the discs in each piston, as well as switching the status of each hole between open and closed are centrally controlled by an FOS-controller, applying a dedicated power source.
The FOS in claim 1 used to carry out a reaction between fluid reactants, R1, R2, . . . Rr to generate one or more developed products, D, one or more developed byproducts D′ and one or more developed refuse D″, using three pistons:
- Pa placed at point a on the sleeve, piston Pb placed at point b on the sleeve, where point b is further to the right than point a, and placing piston Pm between points a and b, as follows:
- (i) match a feeding line for each of the r reactants to at least one hole in piston Pa, and keep each matching hole in an ‘open’ state, Pa(0);
- (ii) Keep piston Pb in an open state, Pb(0);
- (iii) Place piston Pm at point a:
- Pm,x=a with all its holes in a closed state:
- Pm,x=a(1);
- (iv) Move piston Pm from point x=a to point x=b;
- this pushes any fluid captured between point x=a and x=b to beyond (further right) point x=b, and it sucks in the r reactants R1, R2, . . . Rr to the sleeve, captured between point x=a and point x=b, where the relative proportions of the inflowing reactants is determined by the one or more hole through which they flow in, and can be arbitrarily set;
- the fluid captured in the sleeve between point x=a and x=b is called Q—the operated on quantum of fluid;
- (v) close the holes for pistons a and b:
- Pa(1) Pb(1);
- (vi) switch piston m to ‘open’ state, and move piston m to point x=a;
- place the sleeve with Q in conditions conductive to the intended reaction, which are temperature, radiation, and exercise a mixing procedure as in claim 5, until the reaction advances as intended and Q contains the product, D, the by products D′ and refuse D′;
- (vii) exercise a pumping procedure as in claim 3, thereby Q is pushed beyond point x=b (further to the right), and a new Q comprising reactants R1, R2, . . . Rr is sucked into the sleeve between point x=a to point x=b;
- this concluded a single Q reaction round, with the system ready to exercise successive rounds as desired;
- (viii) the pumped out Q containing the products, the by-products and the refuse is undergoing a separation routine as described in claim 8.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.