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Device for admixing a first fluid into a second fluid

US6254335A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateOct 9, 1997
Grant dateJul 3, 2001
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Expiry dateOct 9, 2017

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC F)Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
  • CPC primaryF04D7/045
  • WIPO fieldChemical engineering
  • WIPO sectorChemistry

Abstract

A device for admixing a first fluid into a second fluid. The device has a housing with a rotationally symmetrical rotation chamber defined therein that is arranged with an inlet for the second fluid and an outlet for the mixed fluids. A distance from a center shaft of the housing to its inner wall is decreasing continuously from the inlet to the outlet. The device has rotation means for setting the second fluid in rotation along the inner wall of the rotation chamber. The device also has adding means for adding the first fluid into the vortex that is formed when the second fluid is rotating in the rotation chamber.

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