Extraction of materials from liquids

US10585024B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Battelle Memorial Institute · CH

Inventors

• Andrew P. Bartko · Columbus, US
• Kurt Blohm · Columbus, US
• Ryan W. Daly · Columbus, US
• Aaron M. Deal · Grove City, US
• Scott M. Gibbons · Canal Winchester, US
• Susana Lira-Gonzalez · Columbus, US
• Benjamin J. Richetti · Columbus, US
• Nathan Paul Roehr · Columbus, US
• Theodore J. Ronningen · Lewis Center, US
• Christopher Gordon Scheitlin · Columbus, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 20, 2019
• Grant date: Mar 10, 2020
• Expiry date: Aug 20, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G01N2015/0687
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An apparatus for extracting a material from a liquid includes a concentration stage having a tangential flow filter, a first path from the tangential flow filter, and a second path from the tangential flow filter. Under this configuration, the concentration stage accepts an initial liquid volume. A first liquid not having material collected by the tangential flow filter is passed along the first path, and concentrated liquid having material therein, which is entrapped by the filter, is directed to the second path. The apparatus also includes an aerosolizing stage coupled to the concentration stage that converts the concentrated liquid into an aerosol and a drying stage that dries the aerosol such that material extracted from the aerosol onto a material substrate.