High-Velocity Slurry Separation for Cleaning Viscous Waste Solids
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for managing industrial waste streams are inefficient and costly due to high energy and infrastructure requirements, making it difficult to consistently separate and reuse valuable materials, and often result in environmental and economic challenges related to contaminated waste.
Innovation Solution
A method using a high velocity accelerator to create an aqueous slurry of contaminated solids, which separates particulates and liquids through rapid acceleration and interparticle collisions, allowing for the segregation of solids, liquids, and gases by density, and recycles water, reducing operational costs and environmental impact.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Manufacturing precision
If conventional methods are used to separate and clean materials from industrial waste streams, then separation and cleaning can be achieved, but high energy consumption and high infrastructure costs occur
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces conventional mechanical separation systems with a high velocity accelerator that uses kinetic energy to separate materials. The accelerator imparts high velocity to the slurry, causing particles to separate based on their mass and density without requiring complex mechanical infrastructure or high energy consumption for pumping and processing
Solution Approach 2:
The patent changes the velocity parameter of the slurry from low/conventional speeds to high velocity. This parameter change enables effective separation of contaminants from solids through inertial forces, achieving cleaning effectiveness while reducing energy consumption compared to conventional high-energy separation methods
2Reliability
If conventional methods are used to manage industrial waste streams, then waste treatment can be performed, but high infrastructure requirements and operational costs occur
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts the core separation function from complex infrastructure systems and concentrates it in a single high velocity accelerator device. This eliminates the need for multiple processing stages, large settling tanks, and complex mechanical separation equipment, dramatically reducing infrastructure requirements while maintaining reliable waste treatment capability
Solution Approach 2:
The high velocity accelerator enables the waste stream to separate its own components through inertial forces generated by high velocity. The system requires minimal external intervention or complex infrastructure, as the kinetic energy imparted to the slurry automatically causes separation based on particle properties
3Object-generated harmful factors
If conventional waste management methods are used, then contaminated waste can be disposed of, but environmental damage and disposal costs occur
Solution Approach 1:
The patent separates valuable or reusable materials from the waste stream through high velocity acceleration, allowing these materials to be recovered and reused rather than disposed of. This reduces both environmental impact by preventing contamination and disposal costs by recovering valuable substances
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 method effectively cleans and separates contaminants from industrial waste streams, producing environmentally acceptable materials for reuse, reducing disposal costs and environmental damage, and promoting sustainable waste management.
Implementation Method 1
impart a rapid acceleration on a rotational angle to the stream of solid and liquid materials around an internal chamber of the high velocity accelerator
Implementation Method 2
Rapid acceleration on a rotational angle of the solid and liquid materials results in interparticle collisions and collection of solid particles in a central flow within a liquid and/or vaporized flow
Implementation Method 3
high velocity water streams which cause a result of particulate and liquid separation and further result of dissimilar liquid separation and dissimilar particulate separation through the induction of a state where liquids begin to and/or completely vaporize
Implementation Method 4
rapidly expanding the volume of said slurry introduced into the high velocity accelerator without diminishing the velocity thereof
Implementation Method 5
a series of separation modules which receives the output of the apparatus and separates solids, liquids and gases according to their density
Implementation Method 6
using a liquid such as water, or as may be required by the user, water and/or other materials to create an aqueous slurry of the contaminated solids
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AI summary
The present invention relates to a method of cleaning solids to be free of, or separating solids from, viscous materials and in some cases other solids such as, but not limited to resins and other coatings, foreign debris, clays, silts, contaminated water or chemicals and in other cases separating some liquids form some other liquids. Also disclosed are systems to accomplish such.