Mesh-Encased Abrasive Tablets for Uniform Water-Stream Dissolution
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing water jet systems face irregular dissolution of tablets and powders, leading to incomplete mixing, re-agglomeration of abrasive media, and clogging of filters and nozzles, due to irregular flow patterns and adherence of particles in mixing chambers.
Innovation Solution
Encasing tablets or granulates in a mesh of wire or plastic filaments, with optimal mesh size and clearance, to enhance uniform dissolution and prevent re-agglomeration, allowing for easy disposal of residues.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Quantity of substance
If tablets or powders are placed in mixing chambers for dissolution, then ingredients can be loaded into water jets, but dissolution becomes irregular and particles adhere to dead sectors
Solution Approach 1:
A mesh structure is introduced as an intermediary between the tablet/powder and the water stream. The mesh serves as a mediator that distributes the water flow uniformly across the abrasive media, preventing direct contact between particles and chamber walls, thereby eliminating dead sectors and preventing re-agglomeration that causes clogging.
Solution Approach 2:
The mesh structure acts as a porous medium that allows water to pass through while maintaining contact with the abrasive media. The porous nature of the mesh creates multiple flow paths and turbulence zones that enhance dissolution uniformity while preventing particle adhesion to solid surfaces.
2Productivity
If abrasive media is used in water jet systems, then cleaning and gardening applications are enhanced, but abrasive particles agglomerate and clog constrictions due to centrifugal momentum
Solution Approach 1:
The mesh structure serves as an intermediary that constrains abrasive particles during dissolution, preventing them from agglomerating under centrifugal forces. The mesh openings are sized to allow individual particles to pass while blocking larger agglomerates, thus maintaining productivity while eliminating the harmful clogging effect.
3Ease of operation
If mixing chambers are used for tablet dissolution, then ingredients can be delivered to water stream, but chamber cleaning is required after use
Solution Approach 1:
The mesh structure with embedded tablet or powder is extracted as a removable unit from the system. After dissolution, the entire mesh assembly can be easily removed and discarded, taking all residues with it. This eliminates the need for time-consuming cleaning of the mixing chamber while maintaining the ingredient delivery function.
Solution Approach 2:
The mesh structure is designed as a disposable, low-cost component that can be easily replaced. Rather than cleaning the expensive mixing chamber, the inexpensive mesh is discarded after use, significantly reducing maintenance time and operational costs.
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
Achieves uniform dissolution and prevents clogging by maintaining a consistent particle size in the suspension, ensuring a stable and uniform concentration of media in the water stream, and allowing for easy removal of residues without manual cleaning.
Implementation Method 1
the mesh provokes a system of small, but equally distributed turbulences in the stream of water around it, thus enhancing the dissolution of the substance quite uniformly
Implementation Method 2
detached abrasive particles in a stream of slurry
Data Source
AI summary
The application discloses a discus-shaped unit of a tablet or granulates which contain abrasive media, to be dissolved into a stream of water. Tablet or granulates are encased in a flexible, but inherently stable mesh of filaments for to enhance dissolution, avoid clogging nozzles and ease disposal of residues.