Abstract: A method and apparatus for simultaneously generating and pumping foam. As air is being pumped, foam solution is transmitted through a number of bores formed in at least one of the pump's pumping members, whereupon foam is generated when the solution emerges from the bores and is discharged at the pump's outlet.

Abstract: A combined water distiller and cooler having a boiler and a steam condenser incorporating an expansion chamber with an air inlet over a distilled water accumulating tank so that condensing steam and water condensate may mix with air to improve the potable quality of the distilled water before it drains into the accumulator tank. The evaporator of a refrigeration system used to cool the distilled water is located inside of the distilled water accumulator tank as is the steam condenser coil, so that the combined cooling effect of the refrigerant evaporator and the chilled distilled water are used to condense steam to water in the condenser coil.

Abstract: Desalination apparatus with the double feature of condensation and evaporation, comprising plural dish-like condensing elements piled coaxially, wherein a sloped bottom diaphragm is provided in each element, at the lower part of each of which an upwardly diverging duct is provided. A cooling pipe is led through the ducts of the elements. A depending pipe is provided near the outer edge of each element, through which the supplied sea water flows from an upper element to a successive lower element. The lowest condensing element is heated or is filled up with water that is hotter than the supplied sea water. The distilled water obtained on each condensing element is withdrawn from the lower edges of the ducts as a result of evaporation from the elements and subsequent condensation on the undersides of the diaphragms.

Abstract: An apparatus and method are disclosed for removing unreacted monomer and other volatile material from an aqueous dispersion of polymeric substance. An aqueous dispersion containing volatile material to be stripped is injected into a substantially unrestricted contacting tube along with a stripping gas such as steam to provide within the contacting tube a high velocity vaporous mixture of aqueous dispersion and stripping gas. The vaporous mixture is maintained under a pressure above atmospheric and preferably greater than 5 psi gauge within the contacting tube a time sufficient to permit absorption of volatiles from the dispersion to the stripping gas and preferably to permit saturation equilibrium to be approached. The vaporous mixture is discharged from the contacting tube through a nozzle into a substantially unrestricted post-contacting tube, which is maintained below atmospheric pressure, and preferably is impinged against a baffle means.