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US 9,034,195 B2Granted
Diffuser/emulsifier for aquaculture applications
AssigneeRevalesio Corporation
InventorAnthony B. Wood
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Abstract
A method of treatment of water in an aquatic environment. Water is first pumped from a reservoir to a first mixing station. An inert gas is introduced into the pumped water at the first mixing station to provide inert gas saturated water, which inert gas saturated water will displace undesired gasses in the water in the reservoir. The inert gas saturated water is then pumped to a sparging column such that the inert gas and undesired gasses will be released from the inert gas saturated water to provide depleted water.
Claims23
A method for treatment of a fluid, comprising:
- placing a diffuser for diffusing a gas into a fluid;
- providing the gas to the diffuser;
- and
- diffusing the gas into the fluid, wherein diffusing with the diffuser comprises:
- flowing the fluid from a first inlet substantially without interruption into a first end of a channel formed between a first side of a first member and a first side of a second member;
- flowing the fluid from the first end through the channel to an outlet proximate to a second end of the channel;
- while the fluid is flowing through the channel, moving the second member with respect to the first member;
- while the second member is moving with respect to the first member, flowing the fluid over surface disturbances comprising at least one of depressions or protrusions and a plurality of second inlets formed therein, formed in at least the one of the first side of the first member and the first side of the second member and thereby generating a plurality of vortexes in the fluid, the surface disturbances comprising a plurality of second inlets formed therein, in the second member;
- introducing the gas proximate to the plurality of vortexes in the first material through the plurality of second inlets in the second member, the plurality of second inlets being arranged in a pattern including at least two rows of spaced second inlets and located between the first inlet and the outlet thereby causing the fluid to flow past the plurality of second inlets, the plurality of vortexes diffusing the gas within the fluid;
- and
- causing the fluid with the gas diffused therein to exit the channel through the outlet.
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A method for treatment of a fluid, comprising:
- placing a diffuser for diffusing a gas into a fluid into the fluid;
- providing the gas to the diffuser;
- and
- diffusing the gas into the fluid, wherein diffusing with the diffuser comprises:
- causing the fluid to flow from a first inlet and substantially without interruption through a channel formed between respective first sides of first and second members;
- generating a plurality of vortexes in the fluid caused by the flow of the fluid over surface disturbances formed in at least the one of the respective first sides of the first and second member;
- introducing the gas proximate to the plurality of vortexes in the fluid through a plurality of second inlets in at least one of the first and second members, the plurality of vortexes causing the gas to be diffused within the fluid;
- distributing the surface disturbances formed in at least the one of the respective first side of the first sides of the first and second members according to a predetermined pattern;
- locating a first portion of the surface disturbances in a first array to compress and decompress the fluid at at least a first frequency;
- and
- locating a second portion of the plurality of arrays in a second array different from the first array to compress and decompress the fluid at at least a second frequency different from the first frequency.
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A method for treatment of a fluid, comprising:
- placing a diffuser for diffusing a gas into a fluid into the fluid;
- providing the gas to the diffuser;
- and
- diffusing the gas into the fluid, wherein diffusing with the diffuser comprises diffusing the gas within the fluid inside a channel formed between a rotor and a stator, the rotor being disposed inside the stator, the channel being defined by an outside surface of a rotor and an inside surface of a stator, the channel having a length defined between a first end of the channel and a second end of the channel, an inlet being coupled to the first end and configured to introduce the fluid into the channel through the first end, and an outlet being coupled to the second end and configured to allow the fluid with the gas diffused therein to exit the channel through the second end, and wherein the method comprises:
- introducing the fluid into the first end of a channel through the inlet;
- causing the fluid to flow through the entire length of the channel from the first end to the second end of the channel;
- while the fluid is flowing through the channel, generating a plurality of vortexes in the fluid caused by the flow of the fluid over surface disturbances comprising at least one of depressions or protrusions and a plurality of second inlets formed therein in the outside surface of the rotor, the plurality of second inlets being arranged in a pattern including at least two rows of spaced second inlets distributed circumferentially about the outside surface of the rotor along the length of the channel;
- and
- introducing the gas proximate to the plurality of vortexes in the fluid through the plurality of second inlets formed in the rotor,
- using the plurality of vortexes to diffuse the gas into the fluid;
- causing the fluid with the gas diffused therein to exit the second end of the channel through the outlet.
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A method for treatment of a fluid, comprising:
- placing a diffuser for diffusing a gas into a fluid into the fluid;
- providing the gas to the diffuser;
- and
- diffusing the gas into the fluid, wherein diffusing with the diffuser comprises:
- causing the fluid to flow from a first inlet and substantially without interruption through a channel formed between respective first sides of first and second members, wherein the second member is rotatable with respect to the first member;
- introducing the gas proximate to vortexes created in the fluid through a plurality of spaced apart second inlets formed in a second side of the first and second members, the second side of the first and second members opposite the respective first side of the first and second members, each of the plurality of second inlets formed in the second side of the second member having an opening in the first side of the second member, the openings of the plurality of second inlets being arranged in a pattern including at least two rows of spaced second inlets distributed on the first side of the second member and configured to produce vortexes in the fluid when the second member is rotated with respect to the first member;
- and
- causing the gas to be diffused within the fluid responsive to the vortexes produced by the flow of the first material over surface disturbances comprising at least one of depressions or protrusions and a plurality of second inlets formed therein in each of the first sides of the first member and the second member and the alignment of the surface disturbances on the first side of the first member and the first side of the second member as the second member rotates, the surface disturbances comprising the openings of the plurality of second inlets distributed on the first side of the second member.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.