Sonic Cavitation Fluid Cleaning for Fast Contaminant Separation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for removing contaminants and solids from fluid streams, such as waste water, are costly, time-consuming, and marginally effective, particularly due to the use of chemical additives and thermal or membrane filtration systems.
Innovation Solution
A solids dissociation apparatus using sonic waves to create cavitation within a fluid stream, combined with a solids separation apparatus utilizing standing sonic waves, to eviscerate and separate contaminants and solids effectively.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If chemical additives are used to treat waste water streams, then contaminants and solids are removed, but the process becomes costly and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces chemical treatment methods with a mechanical/physical system using a fluid cleaning device that generates cavitation bubbles through rapid pressure changes. These bubbles mechanically disrupt and remove contaminants and solids from the fluid stream without requiring chemical additives, thereby maintaining contaminant removal effectiveness while dramatically increasing treatment speed and eliminating chemical costs
2Reliability
If thermal processes or membrane filtration systems are used for separation, then contaminants are removed, but the process becomes costly and time-consuming
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces thermal processes and membrane filtration with a mechanical cavitation-based separation system. The fluid cleaning device generates cavitation bubbles that mechanically separate contaminants from the fluid stream through rapid expansion and collapse, achieving effective separation without the time delays and costs associated with thermal processing or multi-stage membrane filtration systems
3Reliability
If multiple stages of standard and membrane filters are used for purification, then clean fluid is produced, but the system becomes complex and costly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts and removes the need for multiple filtration stages by implementing a single fluid cleaning device that uses cavitation to remove contaminants. This eliminates the complexity of multi-stage filtration systems with numerous membranes and filters, achieving the same fluid purity through a simplified single-stage mechanical separation process
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the complex mechanical filtration system with a mechanical cavitation system that achieves equivalent or superior purification through bubble-induced disruption and separation, thereby reducing device complexity while maintaining or improving fluid purity
4Reliability
If reverse osmosis desalination is used for salt removal, then freshwater is produced, but the process becomes costly and marginally effective
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces reverse osmosis desalination with a mechanical cavitation system that uses rapidly expanding and collapsing bubbles to disrupt and separate salt and other dissolved substances from water. This mechanical approach achieves effective desalination at higher rates without the cost and performance limitations of reverse osmosis membranes
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 apparatus achieves efficient and cost-effective removal of contaminants and solids from fluid streams, reducing the need for chemical additives and improving the efficiency of fluid purification processes.
Implementation Method 1
a transducer operably engaged with the housing and disposed about the at least one insert at a distance away from said at least one insert inside of the housing, wherein the transducer is configured to create cavitation inside of the housing, via sonic waves, to eviscerate contaminants in the continuous fluid stream flowing through the at least one insert
Implementation Method 2
the transducer is configured to create cavitation inside of the housing, via sonic waves
Implementation Method 3
a solids separation apparatus utilizing standing sonic waves, to eviscerate and separate contaminants and solids effectively
Data Source
AI summary
A solids dissociation apparatus (SDA) may include a housing. SDA may also include at least one insert that is operably engaged with the housing and adapted to receive a continuous fluid stream. SDA may also include a transducer that is operably engaged with the housing and disposed about the at least one insert. The transducer is configured to create cavitation inside of the housing, via sonic waves, to eviscerate contaminants in the continuous fluid stream. SDA may also include at least one pair of electrodes that is positioned inside of the at least one insert. The at least one pair of electrodes is configured to provide electrolysis of the continuous fluid stream flowing through the at least one insert to produce at least one continuous stream of oxygen fuel and at least one continuous stream of hydrogen fuel from the continuous fluid stream flowing through the at least one insert.