Sparkling Water Mixer With Multi-Stage CO2 Dissolution
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing sparkling water production methods require high-pressure carbon dioxide injection, posing safety risks and inconvenience due to the need for pressure tanks that can be flushed or ruptured.
Innovation Solution
A sparkling water mixer with a mixing channel and chambers, featuring parallel sub-channels, diverters, and a rotating impeller, which facilitates multiple impacts and collisions to dissolve carbon dioxide efficiently without high-pressure carbon dioxide, ensuring safety and convenience.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If high-pressure carbon dioxide injection method is used, then carbon dioxide dissolution efficiency is improved, but safety risk increases due to pressure tank rupture risk
Solution Approach 1:
The mixing process is segmented into multiple stages: first-stage mixing chamber for initial carbon dioxide dissolution, second-stage mixing chamber for further mixing, and third-stage mixing chamber for final mixing. This segmentation allows efficient carbon dioxide dissolution without requiring high-pressure tanks, thereby improving safety while maintaining dissolution efficiency.
Solution Approach 2:
Water is used as an intermediary medium to transfer carbon dioxide from the gas phase to the liquid phase through multiple mixing chambers. The water flow carries carbon dioxide bubbles through the mixing chambers, enabling dissolution without direct high-pressure injection, thus eliminating the safety risk of pressure tank rupture while achieving efficient dissolution.
2Speed
If high-pressure impact method is used, then carbon dioxide dissolution speed is improved, but device complexity increases due to pressure tank requirements
Solution Approach 1:
The dissolution process is divided into three sequential mixing chambers, each contributing to the overall dissolution speed. The first chamber provides initial rapid dissolution, the second chamber continues the mixing process, and the third chamber completes the dissolution. This segmentation achieves high dissolution speed without requiring complex high-pressure tank systems.
Solution Approach 2:
The water flow itself provides the mixing and dissolution action through its natural movement through the mixing chambers. The kinetic energy of the water flow drives the carbon dioxide dissolution process, eliminating the need for external high-pressure systems and reducing device complexity while maintaining fast dissolution speed.
3Productivity
If pressure tank mixing is used, then carbon dioxide dissolution effectiveness is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates due to additional operational steps
Solution Approach 1:
The mixing chambers are pre-configured with specific structures and flow paths that automatically guide the water and carbon dioxide through the dissolution process. The preliminary design of the mixing chambers ensures that the dissolution effectiveness is achieved without requiring additional operational steps, making the device easy to operate while maintaining high effectiveness.
Solution Approach 2:
The system uses the natural flow of water through the mixing chambers to achieve carbon dioxide dissolution automatically. Once water and carbon dioxide are supplied to the device, the mixing chambers perform the dissolution process autonomously without requiring additional manual operations, thereby improving ease of operation while maintaining dissolution effectiveness.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
The mixer reduces surface tension, accelerates carbon dioxide dissolution, and achieves uniform gas-liquid ratios, eliminating the need for high-pressure tanks and allowing direct use of sparkling water without additional operations.
Implementation Method 1
The mixer reduces surface tension, accelerates carbon dioxide dissolution
Implementation Method 2
facilitates multiple impacts and collisions to dissolve carbon dioxide efficiently
Implementation Method 3
a rotatable impeller and an impact part are provided in the mixing chamber
Data Source
AI summary
Disclosed are a sparkling water mixer and a sparkling water machine. The sparkling water mixer includes a mixing channel and at least one mixing chamber communicated with the mixing channel, the mixing channel has at least two mixing sections communicated sequentially, the mixing section includes at least two sub-channels connected in parallel, inlets of the sub-channels in the same mixing section are communicated to form an inlet end of the mixing section, and outlets of the sub-channels are communicated to form an outlet end of the mixing section; an input port of the mixing chamber is communicated with an outlet of the mixing channel, and an output port of the mixing chamber is communicated with a liquid outlet of the sparkling water mixer; and a rotatable impeller and an impact part located in a periphery of the impeller and spaced apart from the impeller are provided in the mixing chamber.