Method for entraining and mixing gas with liquids
AssigneeVortex Flow, Inc.
InventorEugene M. Natarius
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Abstract
A method for entraining and mixing gas with liquids within a conduit or drop structure, comprising the channeling of one or more liquid flows into spiral flows of predetermined radius (radii), reducing the predetermined radius (radii) to increase the centrifugal forces acting upon the spiral flow(s) as the spiral flow(s) enter the conduit, and allowing gas access to the conduit to mix with and entrain within the spiral flow within the conduit or drop structure. The method can facilitate the mixing of gas with one or more fluid flows and/or reduce the release of gas emissions from the fluid(s) into the surrounding environment.
Claims14
A method for reducing gas emissions from fluid traveling through drop structures having a wall and a base, said method comprising:
- channeling the fluid within the drop structure into a spiral flow of predetermined radius;
- reducing said spiral flow predetermined radius to increase the centrifugal forces acting upon the fluid;
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- continuing said reduced radius spiral flow, with the aid of gravity, to or near the drop structure base.
A method for entraining and mixing air or another gas with liquid traveling within a conduit, said method comprising:
- channeling a first portion of the liquid within a first influent line into a first spiral flow of first predetermined radius around the centerline of said conduit;
- channeling a second portion of the liquid within said first influent line into a second spiral flow of second predetermined radius around said centerline of said conduit downstream of said first spiral flow and having a rotational direction opposing said first spiral flow;
- reducing each of said first and second spiral flows predetermined radii to increase the centrifugal forces acting upon each of said spiral flows;
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- providing air or other gas access to said conduit upstream of and proximate to said first spiral flow
- so that the a portion of the air or other gas mixes with and becomes entrained in said spiral flows.
A method for entraining and mixing air or another gas with liquid traveling within a conduit, said method comprising:
- channeling a first portion of the liquid within a first influent line into a first spiral flow of first predetermined radius around the centerline of said conduit;
- channeling a second portion of the liquid within said first influent line into a second spiral flow of second predetermined radius around said centerline of said conduit downstream of said first spiral flow and having the same rotational direction as said first spiral flow;
- reducing each of said first and second spiral flows predetermined radii to increase the centrifugal forces acting upon each of said spiral flows;
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- providing air or other gas access to said conduit upstream of and proximate to said first spiral flow
- so that the a portion of the air or other gas mixes with and becomes entrained in said spiral flows.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.