Abstract: A waste gas scrubber includes a hollow, cylindrical atomizer, mounted for rotation about its longitudinal axis. The atomizer is partially submerged in a pool of liquid. The atomizer has relatively large openings at its two ends, and has a plurality of closely-spaced vanes along its middle section. Waste gas is drawn into the openings at one end of the atomizer, and is combined with liquid scooped in by the vanes when the atomizer rotates. The liquid tends to absorb and/or encapsulate particulates in the gas stream. The resulting fluid is then drawn out of the atomizer through the openings at its other end. A blower provides negative pressure which draws the fluids through the desired path, and which overcomes the centrifugal force produced by rotation of the atomizer. Substantially the entire interior region of the atomizer is used for scrubbing, so that the scrubber is much more efficient than waste gas scrubbers of the prior art.

Abstract: A waste gas scrubber includes a hollow, cylindrical atomizer, mounted for rotation about its longitudinal axis. The atomizer is partially submerged in a pool of liquid. The atomizer has relatively large openings at its two ends, and has a plurality of closely-spaced vanes along its middle section. Waste gas is drawn into the openings at one end of the atomizer, and is combined with liquid scooped in by the vanes when the atomizer rotates. The liquid tends to absorb and/or encapsulate particulates in the gas stream. The resulting fluid is then drawn out of the atomizer through the openings at its other end. A blower provides negative pressure which draws the fluids through the desired path, and which overcomes the centrifugal force produced by rotation of the atomizer. Substantially the entire interior region of the atomizer is used for scrubbing, so that the scrubber is much more efficient than waste gas scrubbers of the prior art.

Abstract: A waste gas scrubber utilizing a liquid body within an enclosure. The enclosure forms a chamber to confine the body of liquid to a portion of the chamber. A rotatable member includes an inside and an peripheral portion and possesses a multiplicity of passages extending from the inside portion to the peripheral portion. A stator surrounds the rotatable member and forms a channel between itself and the stator. The stator includes the first opening communicating with the body of liquid, permitting liquid to pass to the peripheral portion of the rotatable member, and into the channel between the stator and the peripheral portion of the rotatable member. The stator includes a second opening to the liquid body in the chamber. Waste gases traveling through the rotatable member are purified by turbulent contact with liquid forced into the channel. The purified gases are then led from the chamber to the outside environment.

Abstract: A self-cleaning, hydrodynamic fume scrubber for scrubbing a gaseous phase effluent with a scrubbing liquid, includes an inlet stage for receiving the particulate laden gaseous effluent. A negative pressure stage creates suction by spraying a first pressurized component of the scrubbing liquid into a stream of the effluent passing from the inlet stage. A main scrubbing chamber includes at least one hydrodynamic spray assembly driven by a second pressurized component of the scrubbing liquid; a filter media layer disposed below the spray assembly for filtering and mixing the effluent gas and scrubbing liquid; a scrubbing liquid, scrubbed gas separation region below the filter media for separating and discharging scrubbed gas effluent collected therein; a splash plate or diverter plate at the lower boundary of the separation region; and, a scrubbing liquid reservoir below the splash plate in a lowermost region of the chamber for receiving excess scrubbing liquid.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a rotary engine/pump for use as an internal combustion engine, a fluid motor, a fluid pump or the like. Included is a ring of a plurality of radially arranged inwardly projecting convex reactor lobes, an exhaust-intake rotor concentrically mounted in the center of the ring of reactor lobes and having a shaft therethrough journalled concentrically with the axis of the reactor lobe ring, and a multiplicity of secondary rotors each with a shaft therethrough rotatably mounted equidistant from each other intermediate the reactor lobes and the exhaust-intake rotor, with their shafts parallel to the shaft of the exhaust-intake rotor. Each of the secondary rotors has three radially outwardly extending legs defining a concave cavity between each pair of legs.