EP0395635B1 - Melangeur statique pour fluides - Google Patents

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EP0395635B1
EP0395635B1 EP88905929A EP88905929A EP0395635B1 EP 0395635 B1 EP0395635 B1 EP 0395635B1 EP 88905929 A EP88905929 A EP 88905929A EP 88905929 A EP88905929 A EP 88905929A EP 0395635 B1 EP0395635 B1 EP 0395635B1
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01F—MIXING, e.g. DISSOLVING, EMULSIFYING OR DISPERSING
    • B01F25/00—Flow mixers; Mixers for falling materials, e.g. solid particles
    • B01F25/40—Static mixers
    • B01F25/42—Static mixers in which the mixing is affected by moving the components jointly in changing directions, e.g. in tubes provided with baffles or obstructions
    • B01F25/43—Mixing tubes, e.g. wherein the material is moved in a radial or partly reversed direction
    • B01F25/431—Straight mixing tubes with baffles or obstructions that do not cause substantial pressure drop; Baffles therefor
    • B01F25/4315—Straight mixing tubes with baffles or obstructions that do not cause substantial pressure drop; Baffles therefor the baffles being deformed flat pieces of material
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01F—MIXING, e.g. DISSOLVING, EMULSIFYING OR DISPERSING
    • B01F25/00—Flow mixers; Mixers for falling materials, e.g. solid particles
    • B01F25/40—Static mixers
    • B01F25/42—Static mixers in which the mixing is affected by moving the components jointly in changing directions, e.g. in tubes provided with baffles or obstructions
    • B01F25/43—Mixing tubes, e.g. wherein the material is moved in a radial or partly reversed direction
    • B01F25/431—Straight mixing tubes with baffles or obstructions that do not cause substantial pressure drop; Baffles therefor
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01F—MIXING, e.g. DISSOLVING, EMULSIFYING OR DISPERSING
    • B01F25/00—Flow mixers; Mixers for falling materials, e.g. solid particles
    • B01F25/40—Static mixers
    • B01F25/42—Static mixers in which the mixing is affected by moving the components jointly in changing directions, e.g. in tubes provided with baffles or obstructions
    • B01F25/43—Mixing tubes, e.g. wherein the material is moved in a radial or partly reversed direction
    • B01F25/431—Straight mixing tubes with baffles or obstructions that do not cause substantial pressure drop; Baffles therefor
    • B01F25/4316—Straight mixing tubes with baffles or obstructions that do not cause substantial pressure drop; Baffles therefor the baffles being flat pieces of material, e.g. intermeshing, fixed to the wall or fixed on a central rod

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  • This invention concerns static mixers to be inserted into pipes in order to mix fluids flowing along them.
  • Such mixers take the form of one or more obstructions in the pipe which create a loss of pressure, and the energy so released into the flowing fluid promotes mixing .
  • They are widely used in the chemical processing industries for mixing liquids and solids, but they are also used for mixing two or more different liquids together, or for mixing complex combinations of several liquids and solids.
  • a first device within the pipe deflects the flowing fluid so that it rotates around the pipe axis in a particular sense: then a second device downstream of the first device deflects the flowing fluid so that the sense of rotation is abruptly reversed. If necessary additional devices may be inserted at intervals further downstream to impose further abrupt changes in the sense of rotation of the fluid.
  • the energy dispersal caused by these sudden reversals of rotational sense supplies the energy to the fluid that is required for mixing.
  • FR-A-2313113 discloses a mixer comprising a number of mixing elements arranged in series. Each mixing element may impose a system of twin-cell rotation on the pipe contents. Sufficient mixers are included to ensure complete mixing of the pipe contents within the body of the mixer.
  • the energy dispersal and mixing is created by imposing a system of twin-cell or multi-cell rotation upon the contents of the pipe.
  • a static mixer for one or more fluids flowing in a pipe characterised by a single element to divide the flowing fluid(s) into at least two streams within the pipe and to deflect two of the resulting streams so that those streams rotate in opposite senses about axes parallel to the direction of flow of the fluid.
  • Mixers according to the invention may be employed either to homogenise two or more different materials (e.g a liquid and a gas or solid particles and a gas, as already mentioned) or to mix warmer and cooler regions of the same flowing material (e.g. to increase heat transfer at the pipe wall) or simply to increase turbulence (e.g. for use upstream of a vortex-shedding flowmeter: such meters are pondered to be more efficient if preceded by a turbulence - generating device).
  • materials e.g. a liquid and a gas or solid particles and a gas, as already mentioned
  • turbulence e.g. for use upstream of a vortex-shedding flowmeter: such meters are pondered to be more efficient if preceded by a turbulence - generating device.
  • a method of mixing a non-homogenous fluid, or of increasing the turbulence of a fluid, flowing in a pipe which comprises providing a single element in the pipe to divide the flowing fluid into at least two streams within the pipe and to deflect two of the resulting streams so that those streams rotate in opposite senses about axes parallel to the direction of flow of the fluid.
  • the mixer may be formed from a thin plate having a planar circumferential portion which can therefore be inserted between two pipe sections bolted together, the plate having orifices through which separate divided streams can flow and deflectors to impart the rotation to them.
  • the orifices and deflectors may be formed inexpensively by cutting and bending the plate, or in more elaborate geometries by fabrication.
  • the deflectors may comprise flat flaps partially cut out from the plate and bent relative to the plane of the plate. They may be bent from the plane of the plates so that in use they face either upstream or downstream, or both. In other embodiments the deflectors may be curved.
  • each flap may be hingedly attached to the plate, at the edge of the associated orifice, so that it extends downstream in use, and is spring-urged towards the closed position, so that an increase in pressure of the flowing fluid will cause the flaps to open further against the spring action.
  • the mixer device may additionally be provided with one or more pressure-relieving by-pass apertures not intended to impart rotation to the portion of fluid flowing through them. Such apertures may also be provided with hinged spring-loaded flaps.
  • the means to divide the flowing fluid into two streams comprises a mixer according to claim 2, wherein said means comprises a plate having end portions shaped to fit against axially spaced and opposite wall portions of the pipe respectively, and a deflector portion between the end portion, such that when the mixer is fitted inside the pipe, the deflector portion is not parallel to the pipe axis and substantially equal gaps are left on each side of the deflector portion through which fluid can pass.
  • An advantage of a mixer according to the invention is that it can be compact so that the energy release is concentrated within a short length of pipe. This is clearly of great value when it is required to homogenize temporarily a mixture of liquid and gas, or gas and solid particles and/or liquid droplets.
  • Figure 1 shows a particularly simple design, in which the mixer consists of a flat plate 1, with straight sides and curved end portions 2 bent in opposite directions relative to the plate 1.
  • the curvature of the end portions 2 is the same as that of the wall of the pipe 4 into which the mixer is fitted, so that the end portions 2 fit closely against axially spaced and opposite portions of the inside of the pipe wall with the plate 1 extending diagonally across the pipe, with the result that the flowing fluid can pass it only by accelerating through the substantially equeal-sized gaps 3 on either side of the plate 1, between the plate and pipe wall.
  • the plate 1 is installed symmetrically within the pipe so that the passages 3 carry equal streams 5 and because these streams have both axial and transverse components in their velocity, they necessarily create the desired twin-celled rotation.
  • the pressure loss across the plate 1, and hence the intensity of mixing, will depend upon both the size of the passages 3 and the velocity of flow in the pipe.
  • the device shown in Figure 2 has a plate 6 blocking the lower portion of the cross-section of the pipe, with a pair of curved vanes 7 dividing the flow into two equal and symmetrically-disposed streams 5 each of which has a component in the forward direction, a component in the downward direction, and a component towards the wall of the pipe.
  • This arrangement will create the required twin-celled rotation as the two streams rotate about an axis parallel to the flow direction and in opposite senses.
  • FIG. 3 An alternative device is shown in Figure 3, which consists of a circular plate 8, having two aligned transverse cuts 10 extending towards one another from opposite sides.
  • the lower portion 9 of the plate is flat and completely blocks the corresponding part of the pipe 4, whilst the two upper quadrants 11 are bent forward in a symmetrical fashion to provide a pair of partially opened vertically-hinged flaps opening into the pipe.
  • angle of opening is suitably regulated (angles between 20 degrees and 30 degrees have been found to be particularly effective) this arrangement creates twin-celled rotation with great efficiency.
  • the device may be simply constructed from a single piece of circular plate, with the two flaps bent to a fixed position; this permits extremely inexpensive construction.
  • variable geometry may be required, and this can, easily be provided by hinging the two flaps 11 at 13 and biassing them by means of springs 12, as shown in Figure 4. By this means the pressure loss at high flow rates can be substantially reduced.
  • a further variant of the device shown in Fig.3 is that shown in Fig.5.
  • Fig.5 there are two pairs of bent flaps 11 and 11a pointing downstream (like flaps 11 in Fig.3) and upstream respectively.
  • the twin-celled rotation effect may be enhanced whilst creating a lower pressure loss than with the device shown in Fig.3.
  • the pair of flaps 22 pointing downstream may be spring-loaded.
  • the device shown in Fig.6 comprises two part-circular plates 14, formed by cutting a whole circle along a chord, spaced apart in the direction of flow and rotated through 180° relative to one another about the pipe axis. Each plate blocks about two-thirds of the pipe cross-sectional area, and the two plates are spaced apart by about half a pipe diameter by means of a spacer 15 which includes a pair of deflector vanes 16, each of which directs one-half of the flowing fluid downwards and towards the wall of the pipe, thus creating the necessary twin-cell rotation.
  • These deflector plates may be of fixed angle as shown, but this design is intended especially to facilitate variable geometry, since it is particularly easy to provide spring loading of the vanes 16.
  • This aperture may be a simple hole in the plate, but as shown the hole 17 is provided with a flap 18, so arranged to deflect the by-pass flow downwards into the region where the twin-celled rotation is at its most powerful.
  • An additional refinement is to provide the pressure-relieving aperture 17 with a hinged, spring-loaded flap instead of the fixed flap 18 shown in Figure 8.
  • the hinge is preferably near the wall of the pipe, so that the flap deflects the by-pass flow towards the centre of the pipe, but in some applications it may be preferable to hinge the flap along the chord, thus directing the by-pass flow toward the wall of the pipe instead of the centre.

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Abstract

Mélangeur statique destiné à un ou plusieurs fluides s'écoulant dans une canalisation, comprenant un moyen permettant de diviser ce(s) fluide(s) en au moins deux courants à l'intérieur de la canalisation, et de dévier les courants en résultant de sorte que chaque courant tourne en sens opposé à celui d'au moins un courant adjacent.

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  1. Mélangeur statique pour un ou plusieurs fluides qui s'écoule(nt) dans un tuyau (4), caractérisé par un élément unique (1, 6, 9) pour diviser le(s) fluide(s) en écoulement en au moins deux courants (5) à l'intérieur du tuyau et pour défléchir deux des courants résultants de telle sorte que ces courants tournent dans des sens opposés par rapport à des axes parallèles à la direction d'écoulement du fluide.
  2. Mélangeur statique selon la revendication 1, dans lequel ledit élément unique comporte une plaque (9) disposée transversalement par rapport à la direction de l'écoulement de(s) fluide(s) et comporte des orifices à travers lesquels les courants (5) divisés peuvent s'écouler séparément et des déflecteurs (11, 11') de façon à engendrer la rotation desdits courants.
  3. Mélangeur statique selon la revendication 2, dans lequel la plaque comporte une partie plane circonférentielle lui permettant d'être insérée entre deux parties de tuyau munies de brides et boulonnées entre elles.
  4. Mélangeur statique selon la revendication 2 ou la revendication 3, dans lequel les déflecteurs comportent des volets plats découpés partiellement à partir de la plaque et rabattus par rapport au plan de la plaque, de telle sorte qu'en cours d'utilisation ils sont dirigés vers l'amont ou vers l'aval, ou les deux.
  5. Mélangeur statique selon l'une des revendications 2 ou 3, dans lequel les déflecteurs sont incurvés.
  6. Mélangeur statique selon la revendication 4, dans lequel chaque volet est articulé à la plaque au bord de l'orifice associé de telle sorte que le volet s'étende vers l'aval en cours d'utilisation et est sollicité élastiquement vers une position de fermeture de telle sorte qu'une augmentation de pression du ou des fluide(s) provoque l'ouverture du volet en supplément à l'encontre de l'action élastique.
  7. Mélangeur statique selon l'une des revendications 2, 3 ou 4 qui comporte en outre une ou plusieurs ouvertures de dérivation susceptibles de relâcher la pression pour une partie d'un ou des fluide(s).
  8. Mélangeur statique selon la revendication 7, dans lequel lesdites ouvertures sont prévues dans les volets articulés sollicités élastiquement.
  9. Mélangeur statique selon la revendication 1, dans lequel ledit élément unique se présente sous la forme d'une plaque circulaire (9) comportant deux orifices et des déflecteurs associés (11) disposés symétriquement de chaque côté d'un diamètre de la plaque, chacun desdits orifices et des déflecteurs associés se trouvant du même côté d'une corde de la plaque, laquelle corde est perpendiculaire audit diamètre et une ouverture de dérivation susceptible de libérer la pression disposée symétriquement par rapport audit diamètre et du côté opposé de ladite corde par rapport auxdits orifices et aux déflecteurs qui leur sont associés.
  10. Mélangeur statique selon la revendication 9, dans lequel ladite ouverture de dérivation libérant la pression est prévue avec un moyen (18) destiné à défléchir un courant de dérivation passant à travers ladite ouverture dans la région du tuyau où convergent lesdits courants qui tournent en sens opposés.
  11. Procédé pour mélanger un fluide non homogène ou pour augmenter la turbulence d'un fluide s'écoulant dans un tuyau (4) qui comporte l'utilisation d'un élément unique (1, 6, 9) disposé dans le tuyau pour diviser le fluide qui s'écoule en au moins deux courants (5) à l'intérieur du tuyau et pour défléchir deux des courants résultants de telle sorte que ces courants tournent dans des sens opposés par rapport à des axes parallèles à la direction d'écoulement du fluide.
  12. Procédé selon la revendication 11, dans lequel ledit élément unique comporte une plaque (9) disposée transversalement par rapport à la direction d'écoulement des fluides laquelle comporte des orifices à travers lesquels les courants divisés (5) peuvent s'écouler séparément et des déflecteurs (11, 11') pour imprimer la rotation auxdits courants.
  13. Procédé selon la revendication 11, dans lequel le fluide qui se trouve en amont du mélangeur n'est pas homogène.
  14. Procédé selon la revendication 13, dans lequel le fluide n'est pas homogène en ce qu'il contient des régions qui se trouvent à des températures différentes.
  15. Procédé selon la revendication 13, dans lequel le fluide comporte au moins deux matériaux différents.
  16. Procédé selon la revendication 15, dans lequel les matériaux différents comportent des matériaux qui se trouvent au moins dans deux phases liquide, solide et gazeuse.
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