CA2247262A1 - Device for mixing gas in a liquid - Google Patents

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CA2247262A1
CA2247262A1 CA002247262A CA2247262A CA2247262A1 CA 2247262 A1 CA2247262 A1 CA 2247262A1 CA 002247262 A CA002247262 A CA 002247262A CA 2247262 A CA2247262 A CA 2247262A CA 2247262 A1 CA2247262 A1 CA 2247262A1
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Bjorn O. Johnsen
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Priority to DE69615222T priority patent/DE69615222T2/en
Priority to ES96910235T priority patent/ES2163620T3/en
Priority to CN96180152A priority patent/CN1213986A/en
Priority to CA002247262A priority patent/CA2247262A1/en
Priority to AU53485/96A priority patent/AU710845B2/en
Priority to EP96910235A priority patent/EP0885057B1/en
Priority to PCT/NO1996/000047 priority patent/WO1997032661A1/en
Priority to DK96910235T priority patent/DK0885057T3/en
Publication of CA2247262A1 publication Critical patent/CA2247262A1/en
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    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01FMIXING, e.g. DISSOLVING, EMULSIFYING OR DISPERSING
    • B01F23/00Mixing according to the phases to be mixed, e.g. dispersing or emulsifying
    • B01F23/20Mixing gases with liquids
    • B01F23/23Mixing gases with liquids by introducing gases into liquid media, e.g. for producing aerated liquids
    • B01F23/233Mixing gases with liquids by introducing gases into liquid media, e.g. for producing aerated liquids using driven stirrers with completely immersed stirring elements
    • B01F23/2334Mixing gases with liquids by introducing gases into liquid media, e.g. for producing aerated liquids using driven stirrers with completely immersed stirring elements provided with stationary guiding means surrounding at least partially the stirrer
    • B01F23/23341Mixing gases with liquids by introducing gases into liquid media, e.g. for producing aerated liquids using driven stirrers with completely immersed stirring elements provided with stationary guiding means surrounding at least partially the stirrer with tubes surrounding the stirrer
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01FMIXING, e.g. DISSOLVING, EMULSIFYING OR DISPERSING
    • B01F23/00Mixing according to the phases to be mixed, e.g. dispersing or emulsifying
    • B01F23/40Mixing liquids with liquids; Emulsifying
    • B01F23/45Mixing liquids with liquids; Emulsifying using flow mixing
    • B01F23/454Mixing liquids with liquids; Emulsifying using flow mixing by injecting a mixture of liquid and gas
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01FMIXING, e.g. DISSOLVING, EMULSIFYING OR DISPERSING
    • B01F25/00Flow mixers; Mixers for falling materials, e.g. solid particles
    • B01F25/20Jet mixers, i.e. mixers using high-speed fluid streams
    • B01F25/21Jet mixers, i.e. mixers using high-speed fluid streams with submerged injectors, e.g. nozzles, for injecting high-pressure jets into a large volume or into mixing chambers
    • BPERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01FMIXING, e.g. DISSOLVING, EMULSIFYING OR DISPERSING
    • B01F23/00Mixing according to the phases to be mixed, e.g. dispersing or emulsifying
    • B01F23/20Mixing gases with liquids
    • B01F23/23Mixing gases with liquids by introducing gases into liquid media, e.g. for producing aerated liquids

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  • Chemical & Material Sciences (AREA)
  • Chemical Kinetics & Catalysis (AREA)
  • Aeration Devices For Treatment Of Activated Polluted Sludge (AREA)
  • Farming Of Fish And Shellfish (AREA)
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Abstract

A device for adding a gas to a liquid, comprising an elongated housing (6) that is submersible in the liquid. The housing (6) has inlet openings (8, 9) for gas and liquid, respectively. An axle (4) situated in the housing (6) is, at its first end, connected to a motor (2), and at its second end is provided with a pump vane (5), wherein a mixture of gas and liquid is discharged in the vicinity of the pump vane (5). A gas tube (7) in the housing (6) communicates with the first inlet opening (8) for gas, and is provided with a nozzle (11) with openings (12). The nozzle (11) is situated in a venturi (13), and the gas tube (7) is controllable in the longitudinal direction, so that the position of the nozzle (11) in relation to the venturi (13) can be changed.

Description

W O 97/32661 PCTnN096/00047 DEVICE FOR MIXING GAS IN A LIQUID

The present invention concerns a device for adding a gas to a liquid, particularly for use in connection with fish rearing tanks and in cleaning technique, as stated in the - 5 introductory part of Claim 1. The invention is particularly directed to use in rearing tanlcs.
Adding gas to a liquid may be done for many reasons, such as to add anaesthetic gas when sl~ htering fish in rearing tanks, for floatation basins in cleaning plants, adding oxygen to biofilters or for oxygenating the water in a rearing tank (tanks and large 10 ponds). Such tasks may today be ~ ru~ ed with different equipment, such as diffusors, ejector pumps, O2-columns, pond airing and deep shaft systems.
Especially in land-based fish f~ning, many different devices for reducing water con-sumption have lately emerged, such as a bridge filter with diffusor. In order to m~int~in the correct hydraulic relationship in the tanks, large amounts of energy are necess~ry 15 when using the m~mmoth pump principle (blowing in air for moving the water). Creat-ing optimal hydraulic in a large tank by means of this technology is practically impos-sible.
US 4 844 843 discloses a device for adding gas to a liquid, at the same time as theyare mixed. The device comprises an elon~ted tube for supply of liquid and gas, and a 20 stirring mech~ni.cm inthe form of a motor driven propeller arranged by the outlet of the tube, for providing the liquid and the gas to be well mixed and that the ~ Luleis driven out i~ the liquid reservoir. If i,l.;reasi~lg the gas supply to the liquid reservoir is desirable, the speed of the propeller is increased. However, an increase in the amount of gas added to the liquid in this known device, will have the side effect of ch~nging the current rela-25 tionship. By increasing the speed of the propeller to supply more gas to the liquid, alsothe current in the reservoir will also increase.
It is thus an object of present invention to provide a device for adding a gas to a liq-uid, where the amount of gas and the basin hydraulics (the current speed) can ~e control-Ied independently of each other. The jet should be controlled as to amount, ~l~ssule and 30 direction, and thus give optimum tank hydraulics in different operating situations.
The object of the invention is achieved with fcaLules as stated in the characterizing part of Claim 1. Further features are clear from the accompanying dependent claims.

In the following the invention should be described further by means of an example of embodiments and with reference to the enclosed drawings, where Fig. 1 shows a longitudinal section view of a first, preferred embodiment of thepresent invention, 5 Fig. 2 shows a longitll-lin~l section view of the venturi pipe and the nozzle pipe from the embodiment of Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 shows a longitudinal section view of a second embodiment of the present invention.

10 In Fig. 1 is shown a device according to the present invention, generally denoted 1.
The device 1 comprises a pump 2 having a motor 3 connected to an operation shaft 4. At the outer end of the operating shaft 4 is connected a pump vane 5. The o~)c~ g shaft 4 is arranged within a cylindrical housing 6, which in operation is partly submerged in water as shown in the drawing with an imagined water line. In the house 6 is a first inlet 15 opening 8 for air situated over the water line, and under the water line is situated a second inlet opening 9 for water.
In the centre of housing 6, surrounding the operation axle 4, is provided a gas tube 7, which is best illustrated in Fig. 2. The gas tube 4 is at its upper end provided with an inlet opening for air and is at its lower end tçrrnin~tefl in a nozzle 11, having openings 20 12 distributed around the circumference of the nozzle 11. The nozzle 11 with the open-ings 12 is surrounded with a venturi 13 connected to a pump housing 14. The gas tube 7 can be controlled in the longitudinal direction of housing 6, by means of a controlling means 15. The controlling means 15 comprises an adjustment bracket 16 connected to housing 6, and which contains a mounting bracket 18. The mounting bracket 18 is con-25 nected to a block 20 situated within housing 6. Block 20 is mounted to an upper holdingplate 21 connected to the glass tube 7, and movable relative to housing 6. By loosening the holding screw 19 and rotating an adjustment screw 17, the upper holding plate 21 can move the glass tube 7, as the holding screw 19 slides in a slit (not shown) on the wall of the housing 6. Thus, the glass tube can be moved up and down in the housing 6, 30 as it slides in a lower holding plate 22, mounted to the inner wall of the hou~ing f;
Peripherally on the pump vane 5 is situated a jet tube 23, which lS bent ~0~--to e~;tend the substantial of its length parallel with the housing 6. The jet tube 23 can also be positioned in other ways, for exarnple when rearing flat fish, the jet tube 23 should be situated horizontally along the bottom of the rearing tank. Jet orifices 24 are situated along the jet tube 23, in its longitudinal direction. Preferably, the jet orifices have clos-ure/controlling means (not shown), so that they can be individually closed, or controlled, S respectively. At the end of the jet tube 23, which is above the water surface, is situated a ples~ controller 25, which functions as a plCS~illl1 indicator and alarm L~ el.
During operation, the motor 3 will drive the operating axle 4 and thus the pump vane 5 into rotation. Water will be drawn in from the second inlet opening 9 into the pump housing, and ejected out through the jet orifices 24 of the jet tube 23. Additionally, air 10 that a conventional pump would have rejected as false air, is drawn in through the first inlet opening 8, and sucked through the openings 12 of the nozzle 11 of the nozzle tube 7.
The air from the nozzle openings 12 is mixed into the water, in the form of bubbles.
These bubbles are expanded in the und~ created through the venturi 13. When15 water has passed the venturi 13, the pump vane will, by whipping, cause the bubbles to divide in a plurality of smaller bubbles, that will be better distributed in the water leav-ing the jet tube 23.
If the position of the jet tube 7 is changed in relation to the venturi 13, larger, resp.
smaller amounts of water/air will be drawn in and mixed in the pump vane 14. This ef-20 fect is achieved by the venturi effect is changed and the cross section of the water inlet ischanged and thus the water velocity in the venturi and the amount of water in the pump housing 14 is thereby reduced. If ch~nging the flow velocity in the tank is desirable, this may be achieved by ch~n~ing the velocity of the pump vane 5. This can also be achieved by ch~nging the cross section of the water inlet via the position of the nozzle 11 in the 25 venturi 13. The effect of mixed gas and/or the flow velocity can be increased or decreas-ed, by ch~n~ing the cross section of the opening and number of j et openings 24 that is open on the jet tube 23. This enables the same pump to be used over a large range to give better agitation, for fish of different size (of rearing tanks), and by flotation of par-ticles of different size (by cleaning plants).
30 In fig. 3 is shown a second example of an embodiment of the present invention. Here, air from the inlet opening 8 is not only sucked in by the pump vane 5, but also pumped CA 02247262 l998-08-24 W O 97/32661 PCTnN096/00047 in by a multiple step pump 27. In addition, the device is provided with a float 26, to ensure correct operation level in the liquid.
Controlling the position of the nozzle 1 1 in relation to the venturi 13, and the velocity of the pump vane S can also be controlled automatically. This can be performed by S means of electrical and/or hydraulic means, based on the background of desired flow velocity / flow relations and 02-conce~ ion.
A person skilled in the art will also see that other embodiments are possible within the scope of the invention. For example, the motor can be constructed horizontal and situ-ated below the water surface, having a short axle to the pump vane. In such an embodi-10 ment the thermal energy of the motor is supplied to the water of the tank.

Claims (6)

Claims:
1. A device for adding a gas to a liquid, comprising an elongated housing (6) that is submersible in the liquid, said housing (6) having a first inlet opening (8) for gas, and a second inlet opening (9) for liquid, a gas tube (7) is situated in the housing (6), which at its first end communicates with the first inlet opening (8) for gas, and an axle (4) that at its first end is connected to a motor (3), and at its second end is provided with a pump vane (5), and a mixture of gas and liquid is discharged out in the vicinity of the pump vane (5), characterized by the gas tube (7) at its second end is equipped with a nozzle (11) with nozzle openings (12), wherein the nozzle (11) is situated in a venturi (13), and that the gas tube (7) is controllable in the longitudinal direction by means of controlling means (15), so that the position of the nozzle (11) in relation to the venturi (13) can be changed.
2. Device according to Claim 1, characterized by a gas pump (27) is situated in the housing (6), which pumps gas in the gas tube (7).
3. Device according to Claim 1 or 2, characterized by the controlling means (15) comprises an adjustment screw (17) that by rotation is adapted to move the gas tube (7) and a holding screw (19) adapted for holding the gas tube (7) in desired position, adjusted by the adjustment screw (17).
4. Device according to any one of Claims 1 to 3, characterized by a jet tube (23) is arranged outside the pump vane (5), which isequipped with jet openings (24).
5. Device according to any one of Claims 1 to 4, characterized by the size of the jet openings (24) can be controlled individually.
6. Device according to any one of Claims 1 to 5, characterized by the jet openings (24) is arranged for individually closure, andopening, respectively.
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Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
NO943285A NO180073C (en) 1994-09-06 1994-09-06 Device for adding a gas to a liquid
DE69615222T DE69615222T2 (en) 1994-09-06 1996-03-05 DEVICE FOR MIXING GAS IN LIQUIDS
ES96910235T ES2163620T3 (en) 1994-09-06 1996-03-05 DEVICE FOR MIXING GAS IN A LIQUID.
CN96180152A CN1213986A (en) 1994-09-06 1996-03-05 Device for mixing gas in liquid
CA002247262A CA2247262A1 (en) 1994-09-06 1996-03-05 Device for mixing gas in a liquid
AU53485/96A AU710845B2 (en) 1994-09-06 1996-03-05 Device for mixing gas in a liquid
EP96910235A EP0885057B1 (en) 1994-09-06 1996-03-05 Device for mixing gas in a liquid
PCT/NO1996/000047 WO1997032661A1 (en) 1994-09-06 1996-03-05 Device for mixing gas in a liquid
DK96910235T DK0885057T3 (en) 1994-09-06 1996-03-05 Device for adding a gas to a liquid

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Application Number Priority Date Filing Date Title
NO943285A NO180073C (en) 1994-09-06 1994-09-06 Device for adding a gas to a liquid
CN96180152A CN1213986A (en) 1994-09-06 1996-03-05 Device for mixing gas in liquid
CA002247262A CA2247262A1 (en) 1994-09-06 1996-03-05 Device for mixing gas in a liquid
PCT/NO1996/000047 WO1997032661A1 (en) 1994-09-06 1996-03-05 Device for mixing gas in a liquid

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AU5348596A (en) 1997-09-22
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DE69615222T2 (en) 2002-06-13
DE69615222D1 (en) 2001-10-18
EP0885057A1 (en) 1998-12-23
NO943285L (en) 1996-03-07
CN1213986A (en) 1999-04-14
NO180073C (en) 1997-02-12
NO180073B (en) 1996-11-04
NO943285D0 (en) 1994-09-06
DK0885057T3 (en) 2002-01-21
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