Extraction of materials from liquids

US10976228B2 · kind B2 · 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: Mar 9, 2020
• Grant date: Apr 13, 2021
• Expiry date: Mar 9, 2040

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 filter, a first path from the filter, and a second path from the filter. Under this configuration, the concentration stage accepts an initial liquid volume. A first liquid not having material collected by the 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.