Flow Generator with Rotation Chamber for Rapid Mixing
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing flow generators are inefficient in quickly and evenly mixing or separating media, requiring long distances and high equipment costs, and lack the ability to introduce additional media or filter components during the turbulence process.
Innovation Solution
A flow generator with a rotation chamber that sets a medium in rotation and a flow channel designed to orient the medium into a working space, allowing for high internal turbulence and the introduction of additional media through a connection channel, enabling rapid and uniform mixing or separation of media.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If media are conveyed through long distances in existing flow generators to achieve mixing or separation, then mixing or separation can be achieved, but equipment costs increase and productivity decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The flow generator creates dynamic turbulence conditions by guiding the medium through a rotation chamber that generates swirling motion. The medium is accelerated and directed through flow channels at specific angles into a working space, creating time-varying turbulent flows that enhance mixing and separation efficiency within a compact structure, eliminating the need for long conveyance distances.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention changes the flow parameters by inducing rotation and turbulence in the medium. The rotation chamber imparts angular momentum, and the flow channels are designed to convert this rotational motion into intense turbulent mixing or centrifugal separation. By controlling turbulence intensity and residence time in the working space, effective mixing or separation is achieved in a short distance.
2Manufacturing precision
If additional media are introduced during the turbulence process to enhance mixing, then mixing quality improves, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The flow generator is designed with multi-functionality: the rotation chamber and flow channels serve both to generate turbulence for mixing/separation and to provide injection points for additional media. The connection channel opening into the flowing medium allows introduction of second media without requiring separate mixing devices, enabling multiple functions within a single compact structure.
3Manufacturing precision
If the medium is conveyed through long distances to achieve separation, then separation can be achieved, but equipment costs and complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
For separation applications, the invention changes the flow parameters by inducing strong centrifugal forces through the rotation chamber. The flow channels are designed to maintain high-velocity turbulent flow that generates sufficient centrifugal acceleration to separate components by density or particle size within a compact working space, eliminating the need for long conveyance distances required in conventional systems.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The flow generator achieves rapid and uniform mixing or separation of media, even with difficult-to-mix substances, and can simulate self-cleaning effects by breaking down molecule clusters, reducing deposits and improving reactivity.
Implementation Method 1
The rotation chamber is designed in such a way that a first medium flowing into the rotation chamber is set in rotation... the flowing, rotating medium is conveyed through a flow channel... achieving rapid and uniform mixing or separation of media
Implementation Method 2
For example, cyclones or centrifuges known from the prior art are used to separate media. In the cyclones, the mixtures of substances to be separated are fed into the cyclone. The lighter substances are extracted upwards in the cyclone, while the heavier components, such as dust particles, sink downwards in the cyclone
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AI summary
The invention relates to a flow generator for mixing and/or separating media, comprising a rotating chamber configured such that a first medium flowing into the rotating chamber is set into a rotational motion, and a flow channel connecting the rotating chamber to a working chamber, which is arranged and configured such that it determines the orientation of the medium exiting the flow channel into the working chamber upon entering the working chamber. To mix media uniformly and particularly quickly, or to separate mixed media uniformly and particularly quickly, a connecting channel is provided that opens into the flowing medium.