EP0759806A1 - Dispositif pour le melange de deux fluides - Google Patents

Dispositif pour le melange de deux fluides

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EP0759806A1
EP0759806A1 EP95915124A EP95915124A EP0759806A1 EP 0759806 A1 EP0759806 A1 EP 0759806A1 EP 95915124 A EP95915124 A EP 95915124A EP 95915124 A EP95915124 A EP 95915124A EP 0759806 A1 EP0759806 A1 EP 0759806A1
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vessel
nozzles
guide device
fluids
liquid
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Edward Shafik Gaddis
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Air Products and Chemicals Inc
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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
    • B01F23/00—Mixing according to the phases to be mixed, e.g. dispersing or emulsifying
    • B01F23/20—Mixing gases with liquids
    • 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
    • B01F25/20—Jet mixers, i.e. mixers using high-speed fluid streams
    • B01F25/21—Jet 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
    • B01F25/211—Jet 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 the injectors being surrounded by guiding tubes
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01F—MIXING, e.g. DISSOLVING, EMULSIFYING OR DISPERSING
    • B01F23/00—Mixing according to the phases to be mixed, e.g. dispersing or emulsifying
    • B01F23/20—Mixing gases with liquids
    • B01F23/23—Mixing gases with liquids by introducing gases into liquid media, e.g. for producing aerated liquids
    • B01F23/232—Mixing gases with liquids by introducing gases into liquid media, e.g. for producing aerated liquids using flow-mixing means for introducing the gases, e.g. baffles
    • B01F23/2323—Mixing gases with liquids by introducing gases into liquid media, e.g. for producing aerated liquids using flow-mixing means for introducing the gases, e.g. baffles by circulating the flow in guiding constructions or conduits
    • B01F23/23231—Mixing gases with liquids by introducing gases into liquid media, e.g. for producing aerated liquids using flow-mixing means for introducing the gases, e.g. baffles by circulating the flow in guiding constructions or conduits being at least partially immersed in the liquid, e.g. in a closed circuit
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B01—PHYSICAL OR CHEMICAL PROCESSES OR APPARATUS IN GENERAL
    • B01F—MIXING, e.g. DISSOLVING, EMULSIFYING OR DISPERSING
    • B01F23/00—Mixing according to the phases to be mixed, e.g. dispersing or emulsifying
    • B01F23/40—Mixing liquids with liquids; Emulsifying
    • B01F23/45—Mixing liquids with liquids; Emulsifying using flow mixing
    • B01F23/454—Mixing liquids with liquids; Emulsifying using flow mixing by injecting a mixture of liquid and gas
    • 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
    • B01F25/20—Jet mixers, i.e. mixers using high-speed fluid streams
    • 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
    • B01F25/20—Jet mixers, i.e. mixers using high-speed fluid streams
    • B01F25/23—Mixing by intersecting jets
    • 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
    • B01F25/50—Circulation mixers, e.g. wherein at least part of the mixture is discharged from and reintroduced into a receptacle
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10S—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10S261/00—Gas and liquid contact apparatus
    • Y10S261/75—Flowing liquid aspirates gas

Definitions

  • the invention relates to a device for mixing two fluids, at least one of which is a liquid which has a tubular vessel open at both axial ends for receiving the fluids, at least two spatially separate nozzles for supplying the fluids and a guide device.
  • a device for mixing two fluids at least one of which is a liquid which has a tubular vessel open at both axial ends for receiving the fluids, at least two spatially separate nozzles for supplying the fluids and a guide device.
  • the nozzles protrude at one end and which ends at the other end approximately in its central region in the vessel open at this point and in which the vessel encloses a baffle zone at the mouth of the guide device, in which zone emerging from the guide device Fluid flows injected from the nozzles collide (DE-PS 38 18 991).
  • Fluids in the sense of the invention are liquids and gases.
  • the device can be used for mixing a liquid with a gas or for mixing two liquids which are not soluble in one another or for mixing or homogenizing two liquids which are soluble in one another.
  • the following explanations apply, representative of the other two options, for mixing a liquid with a gas.
  • Such “mixing” is carried out, for example, in wastewater treatment if as much oxygen as possible is to be introduced into the water which is poorly soluble in water. This is just as with chemical reactions and with absorption and desorption processes between a gas and a liquid is required to create a large mass transfer area between the two fluids with high turbulence. This intensifies the exchange of materials between the gas and the liquid.
  • the mass transfer during the mixing of the fluids is further improved. Due to the shear field of the liquid in the immediate area behind the openings of the nozzles, the gas is broken up into very small bubbles as it exits the nozzles. At the same time, each jet of liquid emerging from the nozzles sucks liquid or a gas-liquid mixture from the inside of the vessel, thereby forming homogeneous two-phase flows behind the nozzles the gas bubbles are further broken down and the kinetic energy of the flowing gas-liquid mixture is dissipated, thus creating a high level of turbulence and a large mass transfer area in the baffle zone and in the other parts of the vessel above and below the baffle zone . No details are given in the patent specification about their more precise structure.
  • the invention has for its object to provide a structurally simple structure for the device described above.
  • This object is achieved according to the invention in that the guide device, which is firmly connected to the vessel, has at least two closed walls enclosing a cavity between it and is open in the region of both front ends and
  • That one of the walls of the guide device is the wall of the vessel.
  • This device is made in one piece with the vessel and the guide device. It can be manufactured in a compact design and is therefore easy to use. As a result, in addition to its direct use as a mixing device, the device can also be used, for example, as a submersible unit for large-volume liquid containers.
  • the guide device is simple in design, since the existing wall of the vessel is used for its construction. It is therefore only necessary to position the respective second walls of the guide device outside or inside the vessel and to connect them firmly to the vessel.
  • a type of dedicated guide tube can be attached to each nozzle used in the device.
  • Fig. 1 shows a schematic diagram of a device according to the
  • Fig. 2 is a side view of the device. 3 and 4 cross sections through a device according to FIG. 2 in two different configurations.
  • Embodiment of the device Embodiment of the device.
  • FIG. 6 shows a nozzle which can be used in the device in an enlarged representation.
  • Fig. 7 shows an application for the device.
  • the device according to the invention is further described for mixing a liquid with a gas.
  • the device can also be used for mixing two liquids which are not soluble in one another or for homogenizing two liquids which are soluble in one another.
  • a gas GS and a liquid FL are to be mixed with one another in a vessel 1, which is preferably designed as an elongated cylinder.
  • the vessel 1 opens with an axial end in an extension 2 in which two nozzles 3 and 4 are arranged, to which the liquid FL and the gas GS are supplied on the one hand.
  • the nozzles 3 and 4 are arranged so that the jets of liquid and gas emerging from them enter guide tubes 5 and 6, which in turn open into the vessel 1 at two diametrically opposite locations.
  • the vessel 1, including the guide tubes 5 and 6 and the nozzles 3 and 4 is inserted into a large-volume container 7 in which, for example, waste water is present as a liquid.
  • the guide tubes 5 and 6 can run essentially parallel to the vessel 1 and can be connected to the vessel 1 after passing through a bend of 90 °.
  • the two jets of liquid and gas guided separately in the guide tubes 5 and 6 meet i Vessel 1 on top of each other in a dashed-line impact zone PZ.
  • the nozzles 3 and 4 suck in liquid or a gas-liquid mixture from the area of the extension 2 and thereby ensure an internal circuit indicated by the arrows shown in FIG. 1.
  • the liquid FL is supplied to the vessel 1 from above or in external circulation, for example by means of a pump 8. After separation, the liquid can flow out of the container 7 from an overflow 9. The excess gas can escape from the device partly through the vessel 1 and partly through the container 7.
  • nozzles 3 and 4 are shown. However, more than two separate nozzles can also be used.
  • the nozzles 3 and 4 are preferably designed as two-substance nozzles from two concentric tubes. They are preferably identical in terms of geometry and dimensions, so that the vessel 1 is supplied with two or more uniform streams of liquid and gas. If more than two nozzles are used, the junction parts of the corresponding guide tubes are expediently arranged offset uniformly on the circumference of the vessel 1. In the case of three nozzles, there is, for example, an angle of 120 ° between the junction points.
  • the device according to FIG. 1 basically works as follows:
  • Liquid FL and gas GS are supplied separately via nozzles 3 and 4.
  • the gas GS is dispersed.
  • the gas bubbles are carried away by the liquid and the resulting two-substance mixture collides in two streams in the impact zone PZ.
  • the gas bubbles are thereby further dispersed, so that an increased exchange of substances takes place.
  • a large part of the gas bubbles remain in suspension in the impact zone PZ and become constantly dispersed. This leads to a further increase in mass exchange.
  • the impact zone PZ is located as centrally as possible in the vessel 1, that is to say approximately in the middle thereof.
  • the device can be constructed, for example, in accordance with FIGS. 2 to 4.
  • two curved, closed walls 1 and 11 are attached to the outside of the vessel 1, each of which is firmly connected to the vessel 1 to form an axially extending cavity on both axial edges.
  • the walls 10 and 11 are closed at the ends of their ends 12 and 13. At their other, open ends, the nozzles 3 and 4 protrude into the enclosed cavities.
  • the walls 10 and 11 together with the wall of the vessel 1 form the guide tubes explained with reference to FIG. 1. In the region of the ends 12 and 13 of the walls 10 and 11, the wall of the vessel 1 is broken through.
  • Vessel 1 and walls 10 and 11 are made, for example, of plastic or metal.
  • the walls 10 and 11 can be bent semicircularly according to FIG. 3. They then expediently consist of half-tubes 14 and 15. For the walls 10 and 11, however, hollow profiles 16 and 17 bent in a U-shape can also be used, as shown in FIG.
  • FIG. 5 A different embodiment of the device compared to the embodiments according to FIGS. 2 to 4 is shown in FIG. 5.
  • the vessel 1 of this device is circumferential at the level of the impact zone PZ and expanded with a right-angled transition.
  • the guiding device is ring-shaped. It is limited by the vessel 1 on the one hand and the pipe section 18, which the walls of the Represent guidance device.
  • more than two nozzles are expediently used.
  • four nozzles offset by 90 ° in the circumferential direction are used.
  • the number of nozzles is also arbitrary here.
  • nozzles 3 and 4 are shown. They can be inserted into the vessel 1 in the radial direction.
  • the structure of such a nozzle is shown in an enlarged view, for example from FIG. 6. It consists of a tube 20 which has a nozzle opening 21 in its circumferential surface.
  • the liquid FL supplied through the tube 20 is deflected in this way by approximately 90 ° so that it can enter the guide device of the vessel 1, which is delimited by the walls 1 and 18 indicated in FIG. 6.
  • a thinner tube 22 is integrated in the tube 20 of the nozzle, the outlet opening 23 of which lies at the nozzle opening 21.
  • the device described in the foregoing can be used directly as such, for example, for wastewater treatment.
  • it can also be used in a large-volume container 7 as a diving unit.
  • This offers the possibility of using several such devices at the same time, as can be seen for three devices A, B and C from FIG. 7.
  • This has the advantage that the device can be manufactured with optimal compact dimensions, regardless of the application. Only the number of devices required in each case is used as the diving unit.

Abstract

L'invention a pour objet un dispositif pour le mélange de deux fluides, dont au moins un est un liquide, présentant un récipient tubulaire (1) ouvert à ses deux extrémités axiales, destiné à contenir le fluide, au moins deux buses (3, 4) séparées l'une de l'autre pour l'alimentation en fluide, et un dispositif d'alimentation dans une extrémité duquel les buses (3, 4) font saillie. Le dispositif l'alimentation débouche, par son autre extrémité, à peu près en son milieu, dans le récipient (1) ouvert à cet endroit et définit une zone d'impact (PZ) à cet endroit, dans laquelle les courants de fluide injectés par les buses (3, 4) à leur sortie du dispositif d'alimentation se heurtent mutuellement. Le dispositif d'alimentation fixé solidairement au récipient (1) présente au moins deux parois fermées formant entre elles un espace creux et est ouvert à ses deux extrémités. L'une des parois du dispositif d'alimentation constitue la paroi du récipient (1).
EP95915124A 1994-05-26 1995-03-31 Dispositif pour le melange de deux fluides Expired - Lifetime EP0759806B1 (fr)

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DE4418287A DE4418287C2 (de) 1994-05-26 1994-05-26 Vorrichtung zum Mischen zweier Fluide
DE4418287 1994-05-26
PCT/DE1995/000451 WO1995032795A1 (fr) 1994-05-26 1995-03-31 Dispositif pour le melange de deux fluides

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EP0759806B1 EP0759806B1 (fr) 1998-09-30

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WO1995032795A1 (fr) 1995-12-07
CZ345296A3 (en) 1997-05-14
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PL177300B1 (pl) 1999-10-29
NO319891B1 (no) 2005-09-26
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DE19580560D2 (de) 1998-07-02
DE4418287A1 (de) 1995-12-07
CA2189998A1 (fr) 1995-12-07
CN1154078A (zh) 1997-07-09
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