Abstract: A static mixer includes first and second tubular housings which define elongated internal cavities. Dividers divide each internal cavity into a plurality of separate and sequential flow paths for the fluid mixture. Each separate flow path extends between the opposite ends of each housing, reverses direction substantially adjacent to an end of each housing, and conducts the fluid mixture in a direction opposite of the fluid mixture conducted by one of a preceding or succeeding flow path.

Abstract: A carrier fluid and an added input fluid are mixed together in a static mixer to create an emulsified output fluid mixture. The static mixer comprises a plurality of mixing chambers whose cross-sectional size expand considerably relative to an inlet, a series of bent and curved baffle plates which divert, rotate, divide, reverse and otherwise create turbulence in the combined flow, and inlet chamber in which the added input fluid is dispensed upstream into the carrier fluid, and a number of other structural mixing elements which, through turbulence, abrupt pressure drops and velocity changes, subdivide the added input mixture into very small volumetric quantities evenly dispersed within the carrier fluid to create a homogeneous output fluid mixture.