Static fluid flow mixing apparatus

Details Static fluid flow mixing apparatus Static fluid flow mixing apparatus

1998-08-31

1999-12-14

Soohoo, Tony G.

Agitating

Stationary deflector in flow-through mixing chamber

Angularly related flat surfaces

366337, B01F 500

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060008415

ABSTRACT:
A static mixer conduit comprises a longitudinally elongated conduit having tabs that are arranged with respective first edges adjacent the conduit wall and respective opposed second edges that are spaced radially inward from the conduit wall. These tabs are operable as fluid foils so that with fluid flowing through the conduit, greater fluid pressures manifest against the tab's upstream faces relative to reduced fluid pressures against their downstream faces. The resultant pressure difference in the fluid adjacent, respectively, the mutually opposed faces of each of the tabs causes a longitudinal flow of fluid through the conduit over and past each said tab to be redirected. As a result of the redirection, there is introduced a radial cross-flow component to the longitudinal flow of fluid through the conduit. In particular, the mixer further comprises a central body extending generally coaxially along at least a portion of the longitudinal extent of the conduit and defining between the central body's surface and the conduit wall an annular space confining the radial cross-flow. A method is also disclosed that comprises static mixing, over a longitudinal extent of a mixing volume having an annular cross-section, wherein radial cross-stream mixing in a longitudinal fluid flow results from flow-redirecting tabs redirecting a longitudinal fluid flow from an outer, fluid containment boundary surface, across an intervening space having an annular cross-section towards an inner boundary surface.

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