Porous Ceramic Nano Gas Generator for Scalable Bubble Production
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing methods for generating nano gas bubbles are difficult to maintain and scale up, especially in larger reactors, making it challenging to produce reliable nanoscale gas bubbles for applications in medicine and technology.
Innovation Solution
A nano gas generator with a housing containing a ceramic body with pores and an annular gap, equipped with liquid and gas inlets, nozzles, and optional ultrasound, which facilitates the production of supersaturated liquid-gas mixtures with nano gas bubbles, allowing for scalable and maintainable operation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a hose system is used to generate nano gas bubbles in a photobioreactor, then reliable generation of nanosize gas bubbles is achieved, but the system becomes difficult to maintain and scale up
Solution Approach 1:
The system is divided into modular components: a gas generator unit with ceramic body that can be independently maintained, and a photobioreactor unit. The ceramic body with standardized pore structure (0.1-10 μm) acts as a replaceable module, allowing easy maintenance without dismantling the entire photobioreactor system. This modular segmentation enables both reliable nano bubble generation and easy maintenance/scaling.
Solution Approach 2:
The invention changes the key parameter from hose diameter/control to ceramic pore size (0.1-10 μm). This parameter change enables passive nano bubble generation through the fixed pore structure, eliminating the need for complex active control systems. The standardized pore size parameter ensures reliable nano bubble generation while the simple ceramic structure maintains ease of maintenance and scaling.
2Device complexity
If visible gas bubbles (micrometre to millimetre range) are used for gas administration, then simple delivery is achieved, but the bubbles are too large for cellular-level gas exchange
Solution Approach 1:
The invention uses a ceramic body with controlled porosity (pore size 0.1-10 μm) to generate nanosize gas bubbles. The porous structure physically constrains bubble formation to the nanoscale, achieving precise bubble size control (100-1000 nm) while maintaining simple operation. The ceramic material provides mechanical stability and chemical inertness, ensuring long-term reliable performance.
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
Enables reliable generation of nanoscale gas bubbles, ensuring maintainability and scalability, with precise control over gas administration, suitable for applications in medicine and technology.
Implementation Method 1
a ceramic body (30) having an upper end, a lower end and at least one side wall, where the lower end of the ceramic body is closed and the side wall has pores
Implementation Method 2
the side wall has pores... enables reliable generation of nanoscale gas bubbles
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AI summary
The invention provides a nano gas generator for generation of a supersaturated liquid-gas mixture with nano gas bubbles and to a method of generating nano gas. The nano gas generator according to the invention has at least one ceramic body (30) disposed in the interior of a housing (20). A ceramic body has an upper end (35), a lower end (33) and at least one circumferential side wall (34) in the form of a porous side wall. An interspace (40) is formed in the interior of the housing. The nano gas generator has at least 6 liquid inlets (70), each disposed in the side wall of the housing, through which liquid flows into the interspace.