Abstract: According to one embodiment, a fluid controller includes a fluid channel deforming portion and a mixing portion provided downstream from the fluid channel deforming portion. The fluid channel deforming portion includes an upstream end portion, a first channel, a second channel and a channel terminating portion. At least one of the first and second channels is deformed between the upstream end portion and the channel terminating portion. A region of the second channel in a second cross-section, is increased more than a region of the second channel in the first cross-section, between the upstream end portion ad the channel terminating portion. The mixing portion mixes a plurality of fluids flowing through the fluid channel deforming portion.

Abstract: The system and method of the invention pertains to an axial flux stator is implemented to replace the drive-end magnets and the drive motor. The axial flux stator comprises a control circuit to control the voltage and current provided to the stator, to measure the torque and speed of rotation, and to measure the magnetic flux and magnetic flux density produced by the axial flux stator and impeller magnets, individually or in combination. The axial flux stator comprises a plurality of current carrying elements to produce magnetic flux in an axial direction and drive the impeller.

Abstract: An apparatus and corresponding process can be used for producing nanocarriers and or nanoformulations and corresponding process products. The apparatus is characterized by a vertical orientation of the feed conduits leading to active element. The feed conduits are nested within one another and are axially movable in terms of their orientation to one another. The process provides for the mixing of at least two liquid phases with different acidities. The volume flow of the first phase is greater than that of the second phase.

Abstract: An apparatus includes a blender lid configured to cover an opening in a blender receptacle and a lid arm coupled to the blender lid and coupled rotationally about a first horizontal axis. The lid arm is configured to rotate about the first horizontal axis to selectively position the blender lid to cover and uncover the opening in the blender receptacle. The blender arm may rotate the blender lid about the first horizontal axis to cover the opening in the blender receptacle and apply a downward force on the blender lid to seal the opening of the blender receptacle with the blender lid. The blender arm may include a horizontal rod having a longitudinal axis that corresponds to the first horizontal axis and having a first end attached to the blender lid.

Abstract: An exemplary pharmaceutical compounding system and device for mixing materials from at least two distinct material sources can include a transfer set and junction structure that has a junction body, a first inlet port located at a first portion of the junction body, a second inlet port located at a second portion of the junction body, and an outlet port located at a third portion of the junction body. The junction structure can be configured to mix fluid received from both the first inlet port and second inlet port and to deliver the fluid to the outlet port. The junction structure can also include attachment structure located on the junction body and configured to attach the junction structure to the housing of the compounding device at a location downstream of a pump system.

Abstract: An automated apparatus for preparing a liquid bioprocess solution includes at least one mixing chamber having a lower port and an upper port for fluid to enter the at least one mixing chamber, an array of tubing for fluid flow within the system, a plurality of valves provided within the tubing, and a mixing controller configured to cause the automated apparatus to perform a series of sequential mixing steps causing the preparation of the liquid bioprocess solution from a dry ingredient. The series of sequential mixing steps include opening a first valve associated with the lower port to provide fluid to the at least one mixing chamber through the lower port, and after a predetermined amount of elapsed time, closing the first valve and opening a second valve associated with the upper port to provide fluid to the at least one mixing chamber through the upper port.

Abstract: The present invention describes methods, systems, and apparatuses for controlled delivery of wellbore fluids including analysis and treatment within the methods, systems, and apparatuses themselves.

Abstract: An exemplary compounding method of controlling a compounding device to prepare an admixture of at least two distinct material sources can include examining material source solutions for incompatibility of the ingredients and operating a first and a second pump to prevent one of the incompatible source solutions from entering a common flow path. The processing method can detect degradation of a fluid line by evaluating one or more of calibration error rate data, cumulative volumetric flow data, or cumulative pump operation data. The processing method can also selectively transfer a first group of source solutions using the first pump, receiving pump data from one or more sensors that sense actions of the pumps, applying fluid correction factors and calculating discrete pump movements, the pump movements being indicative of an amount of source solution displacement by a pump, and operating the pumps to selectively dispense the source solution amounts according to a preparation order.

Abstract: The invention relates to a mixing capsule (1) comprising a housing in the form of a cylinder, characterised in that the mixing capsule has an applicator (2) at the top surface (15) of the cylinder and an auxiliary capsule (3) at the base surface of the cylinder being mounted displaceably in the direction of the longitudinal axis, the auxiliary capsule (3) being mounted displaceably in the direction of the longitudinal axis in a cylindrical inside pipe (4) and/or a mounting of the mixing capsule (1), the housing of the mixing capsule comprising an outer housing sleeve (5) and an inner housing sleeve (6) being mounted rotatably against each other and displaceably into each other, the auxiliary capsule (3) and the cylindrical inside pipe (4) and/or the mounting taking a first partial volume of the internal volume (9) of the mixing capsule (1) in a first position of the inner housing sleeve (6), the mixing capsule (1) having a second partial volume of the internal volume (9) being independent from the auxiliary c

Abstract: An immiscible droplet generation system may include a chip, a microfluidic channel integrated into the chip, an input to the microfluidic channel through which the microfluidic channel is to be filled with a first fluid that is to be moved through the microfluidic channel and a droplet generator. The droplet generator is integrated into the chip to generate a droplet of a second fluid, immiscible within the first fluid, and to inject the droplet into the first fluid in the microfluidic channel.

Abstract: A device or system includes a mixer comprising a three-dimensional lattice defining a plurality of tortuous, interconnecting passages therethrough. The mixer is in communication with sources or streams of at least two separate components which, when mixed, form a combined fluid stream. The sources or streams may be, at least initially, on opposite sides of the mixer, or the sources or streams may be on the upstream side of the mixer with an outlet disposed downstream of the mixer. A related method may include providing a mixer comprising a three-dimensional lattice defining a plurality of tortuous, interconnecting passages therethrough, and selecting a material for the mixer based on physical characteristics of said material, said characteristics including a selected one or more of mean flow pore size, thickness and porosity volume.

Abstract: Methods and systems for controlling proppant concentration in a hydraulic fracturing slurry include measuring volumetric flow rates of fracturing fluid input to a blender and hydraulic fracturing slurry output from the blender, using these measured values to calculate a volumetric flow rate of proppant input, a slurry density and/or a slurry volume fraction, adjusting first and second valves to control rates of fluid and proppant delivery to the blender and re-measuring the volumetric flow rates and recalculating until target values of volumetric flow rate of proppant input, slurry density and/or slurry volume fraction are achieved.

Abstract: Systems and methods include self-service and automated components for paint tinting.

Abstract: A blender system includes a blender base that is selectively and operably engaged with a container. The blender base may include a housing that houses a motor operatively driving a mixing blade, and a fan. The fan may operate independent of the motor. The fan may force air through the blender base to cool the motor and other operative components of the blender base.

Abstract: A micro puree machine including a housing, a power shaft, a bowl assembly and a platform. The power shaft extends from the housing. The bowl assembly including at least one locking bowl element. The platform includes at least one complementary locking platform element that is configured to engage the at least one locking bowl element such that rotation of the bowl assembly relative to the platform is prevented at times the bowl assembly is positioned thereon. The platform is rotatable from a first position to a second position relative to the housing such that the platform raises the bowl assembly towards the power shaft during the rotation of the bowl assembly and platform. The raising of the bowl assembly facilitates connection between the power shaft and a blade assembly that is positioned in a lid assembly on the bowl assembly.

Abstract: A capped retail dispenser package encloses and retains a mixing container into which a product mixture is filled using an automated manufacturing system in an individualized manner, such that each individual product container may be charged with a customized or unique formulation different than a previous or subsequent container passing through the system. Mixing is not done prior to filling, but with a mixer received in a slidable bottom portion that functions as a piston. The rod terminates at its upper end with a mixing plate. Movement of the rod through the central opening provides mixing of the product through a reciprocating motion, and preferably with a simultaneous rotation. Movement of the upper mixing plate within the mixing container provides mixing of the container's contents by forcing fluid flow through one or more mixing apertures formed about a flange of the mixing plate.

Abstract: A micro puree machine has a microswitch for interacting with projections on a bowl to alert the user that the bowl has been installed correctly to the machine housing. The microswitch also interacts with a plunger of a lid and blade assembly to alert the user that the blade has been properly assembled to the lid.

Abstract: Systems and methods for improved mixing, including baffle systems, reactor systems, and methods of using the same are provided herein. These baffle systems include a ring having an exterior surface defining an outer diameter and an outer circumference, an interior surface defining an inner diameter and an inner circumference, a top surface, a bottom surface, and an axis; and one or more substantially vertical baffles extending from the interior surface of the ring toward the axis.

Abstract: An agitator for being disposed in a container and rotated to agitate fluid in the container includes a shaft and an impeller attached thereto. The shaft, being supported relative to the container, provides an input for attachment of a rotation mechanism for causing rotation of the impeller and shaft. The impeller includes an impeller body defined by a hub portion for receiving and being mounted to the shaft, and a plurality of blades extending radially outwardly from a longitudinal axis of the hub portion. The impeller body is a single piece of unitary construction, such as where the plurality of blades are formed in a manner that the blades are integral with the hub portion at the formation of the blades.

Abstract: A device includes a container for storing slurry, a main pipeline with one end connected to the container and the other end extending to an inner space of the container and forming a first circulation path, a nozzle attached to the other end of the main pipeline, a pump provided in the first circulation path between one end and the other end of the main pipeline for sucking and pressurizing slurry, a sub-pipeline which branches from the pump or branches from the main pipeline between the pump and the nozzle and extends to the inner space of the container and forms a second circulation path, a valve for switching distribution of slurry to one or both of the first and second circulation paths, and a discharge port provided at a tip opposite to a branch end of the sub-pipeline and located below the nozzle in a vertical direction.