VAPOR VORTEX HEAT SINK
    3.
    发明公开
    VAPOR VORTEX HEAT SINK 审中-公开
    用蒸汽旋流HEAT SINK

    公开(公告)号:EP2310785A1

    公开(公告)日:2011-04-20

    申请号:EP09755363.0

    申请日:2009-03-27

    申请人: McCutchen CO.

    IPC分类号: F28D21/00 F28D15/02 H01L23/36

    摘要: A hermetic Rankine cycle in a sealed casing powers an internal centrifugal condensate pump with an internal vapor turbine during forced convective heat transfer between a heat source and a heat sink. No work is imported into the cycle during operation. A centrifugal pumping disk shears the working fluid against a heating surface, sweeping evolving vapor into radial vortices which provide sink flow conduits to a vapor space at the center of the cylindrical turbine. Convective mass flow through the vapor space to the condensing end of the casing spins the turbine and the centrifugal pumping disk which is connected to it. Vapor is continuously swept from the heating surface, so bubbles do not form and superheat while blocking heat flux into liquid working fluid. Vapor is sucked through the radial vortices into the central vapor space and into the condensing end of the casing along the low pressure gradients in vortex cores established by cooling power. A high heat flux surface is thereby thermally connected to a conventional heat sink having high cooling power, for maximal heat extraction at data centers or other heat sources. Vapor vortices organize counterflow of vapor and condensate in a continuous mass flow cycle, and extract work from heat. Organic working fluids can be used in the casing to make even low temperature waste heat a power source.

    ELECTROHYDRAULIC AND SHEAR CAVITATION RADIAL COUNTERFLOW LIQUID PROCESSOR
    5.
    发明公开
    ELECTROHYDRAULIC AND SHEAR CAVITATION RADIAL COUNTERFLOW LIQUID PROCESSOR 审中-公开
    设备,用于径向逆流电液和抗空SCHERKAVITATION处理液

    公开(公告)号:EP2257498A2

    公开(公告)日:2010-12-08

    申请号:EP09717985.7

    申请日:2009-03-04

    申请人: McCutchen CO.

    摘要: Axially fed fluid is sheared during long residence time in a radial workspace between counter-rotating coaxial disk-shaped centrifugal impellers. Gases evolve in the fractal turbulence of a shear layer, which is forced between laminar boundary layers, and an axial suction pump axially extracts evolved noncondensibles and volatiles through cores of radial vortices in the shear layer. Cavitation due to shear between the impellers kills pathogens by shock waves, microjets, OH radicals, and nearby UV light pulses. Oppositely charged electrodes bounding the workspace cause electroporesis and electrohydraulic cavitation. The electrodes are counter- rotating ridged armatures of disk dynamos, forming a dynamic capacitor having audio frequency pulsed electric fields. Electrode erosion by arcing is prevented by shear between the electrodes. The device is also a continuous crystallizer. Inductive repulsion keeps conductive fractions, including suspended metals such as arsenic and mercury, and mineralized water and brine, from passing through the dynamic capacitor at the periphery of the reactor along with the nonconductive solvent. Solutions reach saturation while gases such as carbon dioxide are axially extracted. Metals and concentrated dissolved solids linger in the highly turbulent workspace and agglomerate into chunks, until reaching a size where momentum transfer from the impellers can impel the chunk through the inductive repulsion. Atomized water sprays from the periphery of the workspace and evaporatively cools, precipitating salt and fine crystals of pharmaceuticals. Scale forming compounds precipitate in the reactor into chunks which are easily separable from cooling water or reverse osmosis feed by conventional means. Electrolytic cracking neutralizes ammonia and VOCs.

    ROTARY ANNULAR CROSSFLOW FILTER, DEGASSER, AND SLUDGE THICKENER
    6.
    发明公开
    ROTARY ANNULAR CROSSFLOW FILTER, DEGASSER, AND SLUDGE THICKENER 审中-公开
    环状旋转交叉流过滤器,脱气装置和增稠

    公开(公告)号:EP2244801A1

    公开(公告)日:2010-11-03

    申请号:EP08865627.7

    申请日:2008-12-08

    申请人: McCutchen CO.

    IPC分类号: B01D33/17

    摘要: In an embodiment, axially-fed slurry can be continuously separated into clarified liquid, stripped gas, and thickened sludge in radial counterflow between counter-rotating coaxial centrifugal impellers. One impeller comprises an annular crossflow filter through which liquids are extracted. At the periphery of the impellers, where they are narrowly separated, the sludge is shear thickened into an extruded paste. Suspended solids in the feed pass over the surface of the rotating annular crossflow filter by the shear lift effect, and the vortex-wall interaction jets water radially inward from the periphery, dewatering the sludge. Evolved gases, oils, and fractions lighter than water flow radially inward to the impeller axis through radial vortices in a shear layer between the impellers, and are extracted through an axial exhaust conduit. Feed has long residence time so that separation is complete and continuous. Municipal wastewater, produced water, beverages, food, and scrubber sludge are discussed.

    RADIAL COUNTERFLOW INDUCTIVE DESALINATION
    7.
    发明公开
    RADIAL COUNTERFLOW INDUCTIVE DESALINATION 有权
    电感式海水淡化径向逆流

    公开(公告)号:EP2185273A1

    公开(公告)日:2010-05-19

    申请号:EP07854208.1

    申请日:2007-10-19

    申请人: McCutchen CO.

    IPC分类号: B01D61/02

    摘要: Simultaneous source-sink flow, or radial counterflow, is driven by a centrifugal pump disposed within a casing. Radially outward source flow of brine goes into a shrouding tank and concentrates while a radially inward sink flow of fresh water flows back over the pump to axial extraction. An axial pump drives sink flow and axial extraction. Convergent sink flow passes under an inductor to an axial exhaust port. Induced viscosity and inductive repulsion hinder the passage of brine in sink flow, so only fresh water can reach the axial exhaust port. Crystallization of scale-forming salts is aided by Joule heating from the inductor. Solvent and gases are continuously axially extracted in sink flow, favoring crystallization. Sodium chloride is cooled and crystallized in the shrouding tank. Brine comprising other salts flows out of the tank to treatment by suitable means. Thus brine is separated into fresh water, crystallized salt, and concentrated brine. Oil also is separated from brine. Metal recovery is another application, using the teacup effect, inductive repulsion, and grooved runners on the centrifugal pump to separate metals from light solids and water. Tiny centrifugal separation effects of innumerable turbulent eddy vortices are integrated by the forcing regime of the centrifugal pump and the axial pump. A coherent network of organized low pressure gradients along capillary and arterial vortices gives bulk porosity so that sink flow can go through source flow. In an embodiment comprising counter-rotating impellers in the centrifugal pump, radial vortices provide arterial conduits for sink flow of fresh water and gases to axial extraction.

    MECHANICAL PYROLYSIS IN A SHEAR RETORT
    10.
    发明公开
    MECHANICAL PYROLYSIS IN A SHEAR RETORT 审中-公开
    机械热解剪切

    公开(公告)号:EP2496358A1

    公开(公告)日:2012-09-12

    申请号:EP11745461.1

    申请日:2011-06-21

    申请人: McCutchen CO.

    IPC分类号: B04B15/06

    摘要: Mechanical visbreaking and pyrolysis between counter-rotating coaxial centrifugal impellers in a continuous radial counterflow process minimizes wastewater discharges. In an embodiment, a cataclastic shear retort comminutes, shear thins, and shear heats an axial feed, such as tar sand, oil shale, coal tailings, distillation bottoms, or lignite. Pyrolyzing the feedstock in this shear retort yields a product stream of gases, naphthas, and oils which first mixes with the feedstock and then is axially extracted, while spent solids are simultaneously extruded from the periphery as coked devolatilized residue, such as char sand for upgrading soil to terra preta. Recirculation of shear-heated solids in long residence time within the shear retort brings heat from the spent solids at the periphery to the feedstock without an external heated sand loop. CO2 emissions from combustion to heat water for oil extraction are eliminated.

    摘要翻译: 在连续的径向逆流过程中,反向旋转的同轴离心叶轮之间的机械减粘裂化和热解降低了废水排放。 在一个实施方案中,碎裂性剪切蒸馏器粉碎,剪切和剪切加热轴向进料,例如焦油砂,油页岩,煤尾渣,蒸馏塔底产物或褐煤。 在该剪切蒸馏器中热解原料产生气体,石脑油和油的产物流,其首先与原料混合并随后被轴向提取,同时用过的固体同时从外围挤出作为焦化的脱挥发分残余物如焦炭砂以提升 土壤到terra preta。 在剪切反应器内长时间停留的剪切加热固体的再循环将周边废弃固体的热量带入原料而无需外部加热砂环。 消除了从燃烧到热油用于石油开采的二氧化碳排放。