Gas entrainment flotation reactor with arrangements for separating solids from liquids
US5776335A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Mar 7, 1997 |
| Grant date | Jul 7, 1998 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Mar 7, 2017 |
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- Technology area (CPC B)Performing Operations; Transporting
- CPC primaryB03D1/247
- WIPO fieldChemical engineering
- WIPO sectorChemistry
Abstract
A flotation/entrainment reactor is poured with a plurality of concentric tubes forming respective chambers, the tubewear for receiving and filtering a liquid from solids contained therein, and with an inlet cylindrical base receiving the liquid and guiding it and, a rising flow along a cone wall of a frustoconical cap mounted on the base to the region of formation of a foam column in one of the concentric tubes encompassing an imaginary apex of the cone wall of the cap.
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