Abstract:
A water reaction tank for reacting water containing suspended solids with a flocculant includes a housing having an input, an output, and a water flow path between the input and the output. The flow path has a mixing section and a reaction section. Sealable flocculant ports are provided for inserting a flocculant into the mixing section of the housing. Each of the mixing section and the reaction section contains baffles. The mixing section baffles encourage turbulent flow to increase contact with the flocculant, and the reaction section baffles encourage turbulent flow and increase the length of the water flow path.
Abstract:
A unit for use within a furnace which is absent a controlled atmosphere, for carrying out a synthesizing process for synthesizing precursors to form a synthesized product at elevated temperatures. The unit consists of a vessel, having at least one opening, for containing materials of the synthesizing process, and a solid reductive material. The materials of the synthesizing process are separated from the atmosphere of the furnace by either the vessel or the reductive material. The unit is especially suited for synthesizing LiFePO4 from Fe2O3, Li2CO3, carbon black, and phosphoric acid precursors.
Abstract:
A multi-channel body having excellent heat exchanging effectiveness, gas separating effectiveness and high thermal shock resistance is characterized in that a large number of channels are formed independently by being surrounded with partition walls, said partition walls are connected with partition walls surrounding other independent channels, continuous channels are formed with the partition walls, outer wall and the connecting walls around each channel, and a part of said continuous passages open outward the outer wall and a side face of said continuous passage is integrally and air-tightly sealed with the outer wall at at least one end face where the channels open.
Abstract:
High purity aluminum oxide is produced by continuously reacting high purity metallic aluminum, either solid or liquid, with high purity oxygen, present in stoichiometrically excessive amount, within a vertically oriented cylindrical vessel closed at the top and open at the bottom and having cooled side walls on which there forms a layer of solid aluminum oxide. Newly formed aluminum oxide deposits as a liquid film on the inside surface of this layer and flows downwardly thereover by gravity to the open bottom of the container and thence falls to a collecting vessel below, solidifying either during this fall or after impingement on a moving metallic surface. An annular array of burners, e.g. oxy-hydrogen burners, limits downward growth of the layer below the vessel, prevents closing off by growth of that layer of the space within the vessel, and fosters detachment of the downwardly flowing film in the form of drops to fall to the collection vessel.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a new and novel method and apparatus for reacting nongaseous material with a gaseous reactant comprising introducing a first stream containing a nongaseous material into a reaction zone; simultaneously introducing a second stream containing a gaseous reactant into the reaction zone such that the gaseous reactant immediately contacts and reacts with the first stream thereby producing a gaseous product; forming a spiralling vortex within the reaction zone to cause substantial separation of gases, including the gaseous product, from the nongaseous material; forming and removing a third stream from the reaction zone containing the gaseous product which is substantially free of the nongaseous material before a major portion of the gaseous product can react with the nongaseous material; and forming and removing a fourth stream containing the nongaseous material from the reaction zone.
Abstract:
A CONTINUOUS PROCESS AND APPARATUS IS DESCRIBED FOR PROUCING A HIGH YIELD ACTIVITED CARBON, OR FOR REGENERATING A SPENT ACTIVATED CARBON. THE ACTIVATION PROCESS IS CARRIED OUT BY INTRODUCING THE RAW MATERIAL IN A FINELY DIVIDED STATE INTO A FIRED REACTOR CHAMBER WHERE THE RAW MATERIAL IS SUBJECTED TO A UNIFORM HEAT TRANSFER DURING ITS TRANSPORT BY THE GASEOUS PHASE OF THE REACTOR CHAMBER COMBUSTION PRODUCTS.