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US 7,635,218 B1Granted
Method for dust-free low pressure mixing
AssigneeVortex Systems (International) CI
InventorWilliam Gerald Lott
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Abstract
A method for dust-free low pressure mixing for conveying and mixing secondary dry and secondary liquid components into a primary liquid component with a hermetically sealed system, the method comprising: using a cyclone separator to capture dust from a surge tank and form a recovered product, using a flow promoter to prevent bridging an rat-holing, pressurizing an eductor to draw dry components into a mixing chamber, fluidizing the dry component, and expelling the fluidized dry component.
Claims10
A dust-free low pressure mixing method for conveying dry components with liquids comprising:
- a. conveying at least a first dry component through a hermetically sealed conduit to a surge tank using compressed air;
- b. capturing dust from the surge tank using a cyclone separator forming a recovered product and venting air from the cyclone separator;
- c. pressurizing an eductor to simultaneously draw at least the first dry component from the surge tank and the recovered product from the cyclone separator into a mixing chamber of the pressurized eductor;
- d. using a flow promoter with a plurality of fluidizers to prevent bridging and rat-holing while flowing at least the first dry component to the eductor;
- e. fluidizing at least the first dry component and the recovered product using Bernoulli's principle in the eductor, and
- f. expelling the fluidized at least first dry component and the recovered product from the eductor, forming an eductor discharge.
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