Agglomeration nozzle
AssigneeNestec S.A.
InventorsHanspeter Maier, Klaus Zimmermann
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Abstract
An agglomeration nozzle is formed of a cylindrical tube and a sintered plate which surrounds and extends transversely from the tube with respect to a longitudinal axis of the tube at a position adjacent to an end of the tube and which is separated from the tube by a gap.
Claims14
An agglomeration nozzle comprising a feed tube and a wetting member configured and positioned for, respectively, separately feeding a flow of a powderform material and a flow of a gas for contacting the powderform material with the gas wherein the feed tube has inner and outer cylindrical surfaces which extend to a feed tube end which surrounds a feed tube outlet and is suitable for feeding a flow of a powderform material through the feed tube and out of the feed tube outlet and wherein the wetting member comprises a sintered plate which extends from a plate edge which extends coaxially about the feed tube outer surface at a position which is adjacent the feed tube outlet end and which is displaced a distance from the feed tube outer surface so that the plate extends transversely from the feed tube with respect to a longitudinal axis of the feed tube for passing a gas through the plate and between the feed tube outer surface and the plate edge.
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