Conveyors: fluid current – With diverse power-driven conveyor – Rotary
Patent
1997-08-11
1999-12-07
Hoge, Gary C.
Conveyors: fluid current
With diverse power-driven conveyor
Rotary
406 67, 222367, B65G 5346
Patent
active
059972203
ABSTRACT:
An enclosed-rotor vertical-shaft rotary valve is used as an airlock to inject abrasive, fine, or sticky solids into pressurized air. The invention eliminates the effect of thermal expansion on the gap between the rotor and casing, thereby making it possible to obtain much smaller gaps than before. The smallness of the gaps makes it feasible to pump clean air into the gaps without interfering with the performance of the airlock. The clean air keeps dust-laden air from entering the gaps, which eliminates the erosion that has limited the usefulness of conventional rotary valves when handling abrasive powders. By the use of two vents and a dual-pressure purge-air system, the invention also greatly reduces the blowby of air into the entrance of the airlock, which has limited the usefulness of conventional rotary valves when handling very-small-particle powders. These benefits also accrue to the injection of sticky solids into pressurized fluids. The invention extends the pressure and temperature capability of airlocks, so they may be used to inject solids into fluids at lower instead of higher pressure and so they may be used with fluids other than air.
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Hoge Gary C.
Wormser Systems, Inc.
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