Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Material flow amplifier
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Application No.: US16846474Application Date: 2020-04-13
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Publication No.: US10895274B2Publication Date: 2021-01-19
- Inventor: Paul Wayne Schmidt , Avijit Ghosh
- Applicant: Vortex Pipe Systems LLC
- Applicant Address: US TX Cuero
- Assignee: Vortex Pipe Systems LLC
- Current Assignee: Vortex Pipe Systems LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US TX Cuero
- Agency: IVC Patent Agency
- Agent David O. Simmons
- Main IPC: F15C1/18
- IPC: F15C1/18 ; B01F5/06

Abstract:
Material flow amplifiers as disclosed herein overcome drawbacks associated with known adverse flow conditions (e.g., surface erosion and head losses) that arise from flow of certain types of materials (e.g., fluids, slurries, particulates, flowable aggregate, and the like) through a material flow conduit. Such material flow amplifiers provide for flow of flowable material within a flow passage of a material flow conduit (e.g., a portion of a pipeline, tubing or the like) to have a cyclonic flow (i.e., vortex or swirling) profile. Advantageously, the cyclonic flow profile centralizes flow toward the central portion of the flow passage, thereby reducing magnitude of laminar flow. Such cyclonic flow profile provides a variety of other advantages as compared to a parabolic flow profile (e.g., increased flow rate, reduce inner pipeline wear, more uniform inner pipe wear, reduction in energy consumption, reduced or eliminated slugging and the like).
Public/Granted literature
- US20200263712A1 MATERIAL FLOW AMPLIFIER Public/Granted day:2020-08-20
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