Abstract:
A method and apparatus for mixing discrete, microscopic portions of a gas (e.g. oxygen) in a liquid (e.g. water), wherein the liquid is brought into contact with a liquid repellant side of a microporous membrane, and the gas is contacted with the other side. The membrane, which may be a bundle of hollow fibers, has effective pore pathway diameters generally in the range of 0.01 to 5 mu m, and the liquid pressure is regulated not to exceed that of the gas or to cause liquid to pass through the membrane. Gas/liquid mixed in this manner is conveyed and delivered in a low-liquid-turbulence incurring manner to avoid the discrete, microscopic gas portions from combining and proved them with a long retention time in the liquid.
Abstract:
The invention concerns a method for contacting ozone in fluids, in particular water, to be treated with ozone, by means of an ozonizer (14) and an apparatus dissolving ozone (2) in the fluid to be treated of the flux piston reactor type in single-phase liquid condition, such as a U-shaped tube, characterised in that it consists in injecting ozonized gas under pressure, produced by said ozonizer (14), in a fluid current to be treated, said injection being carried out to obtain gas microbubbles.
Abstract:
Method for active in situ multi-element gas sparging for bioremediation for removal of contaminants in a soil formation containing a subsurface groundwater aquifer or a substantially wet unsaturated zone, the multi-gas contained in bubbles, wherein the introducing of an oxidizing agent comprising ozone mixed with ambient air to provide an encapsulated multi-element gas in micro-fine bubbles sized by microporous diffusers and bubble chamber in combination with controlling bubbles size, without applying a vaccum for extraction of stripped products or biodegration by-products wherein diffusers form micro-fine bubbles containing multi-element gas that oxidizes, by stripping and decomposition, chlorinated hydrocarbons from the aquifer and surrounding saturated soil formation into harmless by-products; effective to increase the efficiency and speed of remediation of a site.
Abstract:
Perforated plates (10) for use as filter media and devices for fluid injection and extrusion have a multiplicity of holes (14) of a uniform size and a selected diameter as small as 0.5 micron. The plates are made by a "wire drawing" process wherein a sacrificial wire material in plate metal can is repeatedly extruded and restacked, elongating the wire and reducing its diameter. Plates are then cut from the extruded composite, and the wire metal is removed by selective etching (Fig. 8). By use of this process, perforated plates with several features unavailable previously are obtained. In particular, the plates have much smaller holes, higher porosity, and uniform size and shape, along with any desired thickness and a high length-to-diameter ratio. Such plates are ideally suited for use as a medium for various types of filters where removal of contaminants sized in the lower micron range is desired. Size and distribution of the holes in the plate are precisely controllable, enabling separations of materials of specific sizes.
Abstract:
A mixing chamber (3) and a gas inlet chamber (5) are concentrically arranged in a closed housing (1) and mutually separated by a tubular partition (7) provided with micropores. A stream of liquid foamable medium is axially introduced by a pump (21) into the mixing chamber (3). At the same time, air compressed by a compressor (23) is introduced into the gas inlet chamber (5) through a housing inlet (17) under such a pressure that the air can penetrate into the mixing chamber (3) through the micropores of the tubular partition (7). The partition (7) that surrounds the mixing chamber and the circumferential wall (9) are interchangeably mounted between two flanges (11 and 12). The cross-sectional profile of axial inlets and outlets (15 and 16) is adapted to the cylindrical cross-section of the mixing chamber (3), so that during operation of the device a laminar stream of foaming mixture, essentially parallel to the axis of the chamber, flows through the mixing chamber (3).
Abstract:
The system is based on the utilization of porous diffusers (2) arranged in parallel and forming a lattice in the installation for homogenization of the liquid mass. Each porous diffuser (2) is comprised of a tubular part (4) of porous material wherein is tight-fitted a concentric tube (5) with calibrated orifices (6) at its lower portion which open into a linear and common chamber (7), before reaching said porous body (4), in order to equalize the pressures and to make the bubbles reach the liquid mass in correspondence with the upper half of each porous diffuser. The system may be applied to electrolytic processes, gas transfers, water purification systems, fish-breading stations, etc.
Abstract:
The invention concerns a dispersion water nozzle for passing pressurized water that contains dissolved air into a flotation clarifier. According to the invention, the throttle part in the nozzle is composed of a cylindrical or spherical valve member (2), into which, in addition to the main through flow passage (7), a crosswise through flow passage (6) of smaller cross-sectional area has been formed for the dispersion flow. The throttle part is followed by a tubular flow equalization part (4). The operational advantage of the nozzle is above all easy cleaning by modification of the flow passages and flow directions in the throttle member.
Abstract:
A microfluidic device for generating microbubbles includes a substrate and a microfluidic channel embedded in the substrate. The microfluidic channel includes a plurality of fluid inlets, at least one bubble formation outlet having a nozzle with an adjustable diameter, and a flow focusing junction in fluid communication with the plurality of fluid inlets and the bubble formation outlet. A method for mass producing monodisperse microbubbles with a microfluidic device includes supplying a flow of dispersed phase fluid into a first fluid inlet of a microfluidic channel, supplying a flow of continuous phase fluid into a second fluid inlet of the microfluidic channel, and adjusting a diameter of a nozzle to obtain a plurality of monodisperse microbubbles having a specified diameter.