Appliance for preparation of solid fluids or gaseous materials
The present invention concerns an appliance for preparation of liquid matenals or solid or gaseous materials, which are duπng preparation kept in a fluid, where the matenals are exposed to the influence of electromagnetic fields through the treatment.
Although the appliance is very suitable for preparation of matenals of a very different nature, i.e within the food and medicine industry, we shall hereunder concentrate on describing same in connection with preparation of water and mainly calcareous water.
The use of water, which contains mineral components, has without human interference in some way been connected to the crystallization procedures, which are among other things started by the presence of as well as the concentration of matenals, contained in the water as well as the necessary reaction energy. They are further a consequence of electrochemical potentials, which will result in electrochemical corrosion and which is also initiated during evaporation procedures. In consequence thereof undesirable very solid deposits will arise. When it is the question of pipelines, there will, as you will be aware, be changes in cross sections, which may result in heat loss and reduction of flow. A deposit of further materials, which are brought by the water, will also be stimulated in that way. Such circumstances may also further growth of micro-organisms. Further undesirable deposits will come on fittings and containers for bottling, keeping and further use of water.
In consequence thereof a number of procedures and appliances have been suggested to avoid or reduce the above mentioned inconveniences with the undesirable deposits by using the physical or chemical properties of the water and the therein contained materials. Such materials are usually not removed from the water, but it is being aimed to alter certain properties for some of the components, m order that no calcareous deposits anse, which will result in very bothering cross section reductions, and once the crystallization procedures have taken place, among other things through the evaporation of water, the remaining components should be removed rather easily.
The so far known appliances, the effect of which is still being discussed. will expose the water to a magneUc. inductive or capacitive influence
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From FR-A1-2 659 43 \\C also know an appliance which has been meant to stop the formation of scaling in water bv exposing trie water to 5 an electromagnetic field, wluch has been built up by 2 around a water pipe twisted coils, which have been connected to an earthed capacitor, and which have been connected respectiveh to the direct exit and the inverted exit of a square impulse generator The thut. 180° phase shifted impulses are said through the mentioned anangement to be able to prevent deposits in of mainly calcium and magnesium salts
From FR-A1-2 703 675 a similar appliance is known, where a double generator supplies square unpulses to two coils, which have been twisted around a water pipe, and whose reverse twisting ends are open No effect 15 seems to be obtained through the use of such an appliance
In DE-A1-410T340 a pipe socket for inserting in pipe connections is desenbed, which carries two coils, which have been twisted in the same direction, and which are connected respectively to the inner conductor and
20 the guard of a co-axial cable, which has been connected to a square impulse generator Also in this case the coils are open in the opposite end, and there seems to be no apparent effect through the use of this appliance, although measurements have proved a certain electromagnetic induction in the inside of the tube close to the coil
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DE-A 1-4229594 descπbes a procedure and an appliance for electromagnetic treatment of aqueous fluids, where two coils, which have been placed on a tube in the axis direction after one another are given certain square voltages, which have been mutually phase shifted It is
30 mentioned that through such an arrangement one should achieve a significant improvement of the electromagnetic water treatment, nameh as concerns calceous deposits and calceous solutions, but also as concerns nitrate deposits A similar appliance has been desenbed in DE-A1- 4318429, in which case the use of induction cods around a water pipe has
35 also been suggested
US-A-5 171 -431 shows an appliance for adjustment of calcium additives to water where two induction coils have been twisted around a pipe and are supplied with delta impulses ith an adiustable amplitude and a 40 frequency between 0 and 6 kHz. dependent on the flow speed and the hardness of the water in the pipe
The appliance according to the mentioned invention is peculiar in the wa\ that it has at least one magnetic core of a ferrite which is provided with an electπc coil, the core of which has been bent in a semicircle, an E- or a U- shape and has been placed completely outside or completely inside a 5 container or a tube, in which the fluid, which is to be treated, or the fluid, which contains the components, which are to be treated, is present, and that the electπc coιl(s) is provided with DC impulses with a steep rear edge.
10 With an appliance, which has been built in such a way, it has turned out to be possible to achieve a compared to earlier suggested appliances improved, more exact control of the formed material crystals sizes and form, namely in the way that the crystals in their final stage will have nearly the same size and will remain small without the disposition to stick
15 together or get stuck on pipes or container walls. The appliance is also advantageous in a way that opposite to many of the known appliances it is relatively independent of the place to be mounted and does not require interference in existing installations. By inserting exciting coils on for this purpose suitable coil cores as mentioned, a much better influence of the
20 electromagnetic fields in the water can be achieved than what would have been possible through the use of known appliances
By one construction form for the appliance according to this invention a digital computer controlled device is also included, which will control the
25 supply of impulse waves from the coil or the coils. Apart from a cost advantageous mass production also very precise exit parameters are achieved in a very simple way, which will control the supply of impulse waves, and a problemfree reproduction of optimal values and the possible later adaptation of these to altered output conditions, since the properties
30 of the water and its contents of treated matenals can change during the course of time.
The invention is hereinafter to be further explained with reference to the drawing, where
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Picture 1 and 2 show a first version for a magnetic core with a coil for use in an appliance with the invention shown both from the front and seen from the side.
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Picture 3 and 4 a similar core as the one in picture 1 and 2. but with a differently built coil
Picture 5 A different construction for a magnetic core for use in the appliance according to the invention
Picture 6 The same core as on Picture 5 but with a coil as on
Picture 4.
Picture 7 A coil with a magnetic core, as shown on Picture 6. placed outside a pipe containing fluid
Picture 8 and 9 Corresponding pictures like Picture 7 but with the use
10 of respectively two and three magnetic cores with correspondmg coils
Picture 10 A picture seen from the end of a pipe or container with an outside placed magnetic core w th a coil like one of the Pictures 1 to 6,
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The same as Picture 10, but witii respectively two and three magnetic cores with coils placed with a mutual angle around the pipe.
Picture 13 and 14
20 Respectively a picture seen from the end and a picture seen from the side of a pipe with magnetic cores with coils placed after one another in the length direction of the pipe - please refer Picture 4,
Picture 15 to 18
25 Also respectively a picture seen from the end and a picture seen from the side of a pipe with a number of magnetic cores placed on the outside, but the placing is perpendicular to the pipe axis, contrary to Picture 14,
30 Picture 1 to 22 a Power supply circuit and its connection to respectively one, two, three and six coils on magnetic cores, placed on the outside of a pipe with fluid flowing inside
35 On the drawing both Picture 1 and 2 show a semicircleshaped magnetic core 1 of a ferπte of the kind, which is normally used within the high frequency and which is provided with a flat twisting 2. meant to be connected to a DC source, which is desenbed further hcrcundcr The poles of the magnet are shown at the ends of the core at N and S and are
40 situated in a way that the magnet can be placed close to a pipe or a
container in order to be able to in the most effective way to spread its magnetic field inside the pipe or the container
Picture 3 and 4 show a magnetic core of the same land and form as shown 5 on Picture 1 and 2. but the used coil has a short concentrated cod 3
On Picture 5 and 6 a nearly U-shaped magnetic core 4, provided with respectively a flad spread twisting 5 and a short concentrated twisting 6, is shown. The way of working for the shown magnetic cores and coils is 10 mamly the same, but the different shapes of core and twisting can be used advantageously, depending on the exact place to be used.
On picture 7 on the drawing a pipe 7 is shown, containing a liquid, which is to be treated, and a magnetic core 4 with coil 6, as shown on Picture 6, 15 which is placed parallelly to the pipe axis at a small distance from the pipe, in order that no exact physical or electrical contact be established
On Picture 8 and 9 a pipe 7 is shown with respectively two and three magnetic cores 4 with coils 6 placed outside the pipe in the same way as
20 the core 4 on Picture 7. On these pictures die field line sequence from the magnetic cores on the wall of the container or pipe - most frequently made out of metal, which will result in it that the field lines, which interfere with one another, are broken, but will also spread inside the wall in the present liquid in order to affect the therein existing matenals. which are inspired
25 to form the above mentioned small and homogenous crystals, since the cyclic interference of the flow in the exciting cods will result in a change of polarization in the fernte cores m a particularly efficient way and changes of the induced fields m the container wall and in the inside of the container When the water or any other liquid moves, but also due to the
30 mentioned changes of polarization, die fields will be cut apart also in the water In the water new fields will form due to the effect from the dipole factors of the water molecules. This invention fully uses the good sound spreading properties of the water tor a good transportation of the induced fields, whenever vibrations in the sound area are produced through the use
35 of frequencies from the supplied DC waves in the low-frequent audible area. Since such vibrations for mere physical reasons have also been connected to micro sound pressure, the spread will happen irrespective of the form and place of the container or pipe. They will - like sound waves m water - move a distance, which will be limited by their actual energy
40 load The spectral field of field production, which is used with this
invention, also makes it possible to let the effect of the magnetic influences pass through bends of the pipe
Whilst the magnetic cores on Picture 8 and 9 have been placed on the same level on the outside of the pipe Picture 1 1 and 12 show a position of the magnetic core 8 with a mutual angle around the pipe 9 Picture 10 shows one single magnetic core 8 outside a pipe or a container 9 with relatively large dimensions, in which case it has proved mostly appropnate to use more magnetic cores angularly spread around the pipe !0 in order to obtain a good field lme spread over most of the cross section of the pipe, which will enable the formed fields to reach as many liquid molecules as ever possible
When using very large pipe or container dimensions it may be appropriate 15 to use one of the on Pictures 13 to 18 shown positions for the magnetic core 10, in which case particularly Picture 16 and 18 demonstrate a larger number of magnetic cores 1 , which have been mutually spread both in the length direction of the pipe and concerning it's circurnference and with the magnetic cores oπented either in the length or cross direction of the 20 pipe
Contrary to a number of known appliances also when treating larger volumes of liquid, an increased number of exciting coils is used, and thus a correspondingly increased number of magnetic poles, which will have an 25 effect on the liquid In case of a container wall out of metal, the growing figure for energy loss in the surface area in case of an increased flo , will be reduced to a minimum
It has turned out that even m areas with very hard water an execution with 30 tw exciting coils as shown on Picture 13 and 14, which is supplied from a control device, will be sufficient to obtain the desired effects in a selfcontained house
In order to reduce mutual disturbance of enclosed induction sequences, 35 supply of neighbour coils can be tune shifted Considering the transient time for the chosen coil executions a time shift of between 1/4 and 1/3 of the real cuttiπg-in time is preferred Other values, which deviate from diat may prove advantageous Local conditions arc in actual fact the determining factor 40
Supply of the mounted coils of the magnetic cores is done with DC waves with steep rear edge, and an electπc circuit for that purpose is shown on Pictures 19 to 22. where the circuit supplies respectively one. two, three 5 and six coils 12, placed on magnetic cores 11 You will realize that magnetic core 11 and the coils 12 could be any of the on Pictures 1 to 6 shown
The electπc circuit is advantageously earned out by a computer controlled 10 device 13, which compπses a power supply unit 14, a micro processor 15, a storage facility for programmes 16, an access terminal 17 and an output module 18, which has a number of output channels 19, dependent of the number of coils 12, which is to be supplied with impulse waves
15 The mentioned circuit is particularly suitable for producing the signals for the supply of a larger number of coils due to the precise and easily repeatable digital control option When using more than three coils, to be supplied, it may be advantageous to supply the remaining coils with inverted signals Such inversions can easily be realized through the
20 suggested digital construction of the control device, just like the control of the signals can be immediately changed considering the practical measurements of the system at different axial and angular positions of the cods
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