High-gravity device for generating nano/micron bubbles and reaction system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12053746-B2
Application number	US-202017418578-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Mar 5, 2020
Priority date	Mar 5, 2019
Publication date	Aug 6, 2024
Grant date	Aug 6, 2024

Abstract

The present application provides a high-gravity device for generating nano/micron bubble and a reaction system. In the device, the liquid phase is continuous phase and the gas phase is dispersed phase. A gas enters the interior of the device from a hollow shaft, and the gas is subjected to primary shearing under a shearing effect of aerating micropores to form bubbles; then, the bubbles rapidly disengage from the surface of a rotating shaft under the effect of the rotating shaft rotating at a high speed, and are subjected to secondary shearing under the high-gravity environment with the strong shearing force formed by the rotating shaft to form nano/micron bubbles. The device has the advantages of fastness, stability, and small average particle size. The average particle size of the formed nano/micron bubbles is between 800 nanometers and 50 microns, and the average particle size of the bubbles can be regulated in a range by adjusting the rotating speed of the rotating shaft.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A high-gravity device for generating nano/micron bubbles, comprising:
a housing provided with a liquid inlet and a liquid outlet; and
a high-gravity unit for generating bubbles disposed in the housing;
wherein:
the high-gravity unit for generating bubbles comprises:
a rotor disposed in the housing, whereby a high-gravity field can be formed by means of rotation of the rotor, the centrifugal acceleration generated by the high-gravity field is greater than 10 g with a radius of the rotor ranging from 41 mm to 212 mm and a rotor speed of the rotor ranging between 100 rpm and 10000 rpm; and
a hollow shaft having one end bonded to the rotor, the other end of the hollow shaft being in communication with a gas inlet;

wherein the hollow shaft divides the housing into an inner cavity and an outer cavity which are in communication with each other, and a number of micron-scale pore canals are provided on a side wall of the hollow shaft,
wherein a gap provided between the housing and the hollow shaft is 0.1-10 mm, and
wherein the diameter of the pore canal continuously increases along a direction of gas flow parallel to a main extension direction of the hollow shaft or continuously decreases along the direction of the gas flow; or
the diameter of the pore canal continuously increases along the direction of liquid flow in the outer cavity parallel to the main extension direction of the hollow shaft or continuously decreases along the direction of liquid flow.

2. The high-gravity device for generating nano/micron bubbles according to claim 1 , wherein pore centers of two adjacent pore canals are spaced from each other at a determined distance.

3. The high-gravity device for generating nano/micron bubbles according to claim 1 , wherein the pore canals comprise a first pore canal on an upper half portion of the side wall of the hollow shaft and a second pore canal on a lower half portion of the side wall of the hollow shaft;
the upper half portion is disposed above a center portion of the hollow shaft in a main extension direction of hollow shaft and the lower half portion is disposed below the center portion of the hollow shaft in the main extension direction of hollow shaft; and
the diameter of the first pore canal is larger than, smaller than, or equal to the diameter of the second pore canal.

4. The high-gravity device for generating nano/micron bubbles according to claim 1 , wherein the pore canals are symmetrically arranged around the axle center of the hollow shaft.

5. The high-gravity device for generating nano/micron bubbles according to claim 1 , wherein the material of the hollow shaft is stainless steel or a titanium- based material, and the diameter of the pore canal is in the range of 0.01-0.1 mm.

6. The high-gravity device for generating nano/micron bubbles according to claim 1 , wherein the hollow shaft is made of a ceramic membrane, and, the diameter of a pore canal of membrane in inner wall of the ceramic membrane is in the range of 2-48 nm and the diameter of a pore canal of membrane in outer wall is in the range of 5-48 nm.

7. A reaction system for a gas-liquid two-phase reaction, the reaction system comprising a high-gravity device for generating nano/micron bubbles according to claim 1 .

8. A reaction system for a gas-liquid-solid three-phase reaction or for a gas-liquid-solid reaction in pseudo-homogeneous phase, the reaction system comprising:
a reactor and a high-gravity device for generating nano/micron bubbles according to claim 1 which are in communication with each other, the high-gravity device for generating nano/micron bubbles mixes a gas reactant and a liquid reactant to form a gas-liquid mixture with nano/micron bubbles, and a solid reactant or solid catalyst can be fed into the reactor.

Assignees

• Univ Beijing Chem Tech

Inventors

• Luo Yong
• Wang Di
• Chu Guangwen
• Liu Yachao
• Li Zhihao
• Cai Yong
• Zou Haikui
• Sun Baochang
• Chen Jianfeng

Classifications

• B01J7/02

  by wet methods · CPC title

• B01F2215/0431

  Numerical size values, e.g. diameter of a hole or conduit, area, volume, length, width, or ratios thereof · CPC title

• B01F23/23314

  through a hollow stirrer element · CPC title

• B01F2101/2204

  Mixing chemical components in generals in order to improve chemical treatment or reactions, independently from the specific application · CPC title

• B01F27/81

  the stirrers having central axial inflow and substantially radial outflow · CPC title