Abstract: This invention relates to a turbo-jet aerator and in particular to one mainly including a motor, a turbo-jet means and a stirring mechanism by means of which when the motor is turned on, the turbine and the stirring mechanism will be rotated and air in the recesses between leaves of the turbine will be sucked in from the outside and ejected out through the outlet of the turbo-jet means and then the air will pass and dissolve into water of a pond.

Abstract: A gas-liquid mixing process and apparatus employing two or more stacked impeller-draft tube assemblies adapted to enable effective gas ingestion into a recirculating body of liquid by vortex development to be continued upon an appreciable variation in liquid level during the course of the mixing operation.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved apparatus for the production of a flowable mixture which reacts to form foam from flowable components stored in storage containers, wherein prior to metered introduction into a mixing zone, at least one of the components is charged with a defined quantity of gas, by (i) introducing said one component and gas separately into a gasification chamber equipped with a hollow stirrer, (ii) sucking gas into said component through the hollow shaft of the hollow stirrer, and (iii) stirring the gas into the component, until the desired value is attained, the improvement wherein (a) the component is circulated from the storage container through the gasification chamber and back into the storage container, (b) the gas sucked through the hollow shaft of the hollow stirrer being maintained at pressure at least equal to the pressure prevailing in the storage container, and (c) the component fraction remaining in the storage container is homogenized during those periods in which ga

Abstract: The present invention is directed to an apparatus for introducing gas into one of at least two free-flowing components which are subsequently mixed to provide a foam-forming free-flowing mixture by transferring the component to have gas dispersed therein from a supply container to a gas loading area, loading the component with gas and returning the component to the supply area, wherein the gas used in the gas loading area is obtained from a gas cushion maintained in the supply container and wherein the gas is compressed to a pressure higher than the pressure in the gas loading area before it is dispersed into the free-flowing component.

Abstract: Apparatus for purifying a gas stream such as air laden with particulate matter and containing unwanted contaminant gases. A bladed rotor supporting a perforated tube therein is positioned near the bottom of a water column and is revolved at critically high speed, such as over 600 revolutions per minute while a gas-stream inlet communicates with the interior of the rotor via the perforated tube. At the critical rotational speed water from the water column is prevented from entering between the blades of the rotor, the rotation of which draws contaminant inlet gas thereto through the perforated tube. The gas stream drawn into the rotor through the perforated tube is thereafter expelled by centrifugal force from the blades of the rotor into the water column thus affording cleaning of the gas stream by the water in the column. Water from the column is preferably withdrawn and prepared for reuse, as by filtering, neutralizing, pumping and, if necessary, cooling.

Abstract: A submersible centrifugal pump especially for aquariums includes a motor driven impeller for circulating water through the pump and a movable flow indicator visible from the exterior of the pump for visually indicating the water flow rate through the pump. The impeller is mounted on a hollow motor shaft which protrudes above the pump to provide for the passage of air down through the shaft for mixing with the water within the pump. The shaft is rotatable relative to the impeller to permit turning of a valve shutter connected thereto relative to a valve seat for controlling the water flow rate through the pump.

Abstract: A mineral processing device for floating relatively large particles and middling particles is disclosed. The device provides a uniform upward flow of pulp in a flotation zone. Gas bubbles are introduced into the pulp with minimal agitation. Agitation in the flotation zone is also controlled by a plate with a multitude of holes of varying size. The upward flow velocity in the flotation zone is controlled by means of a variable speed impeller and an adjustable partition. Further, a flotation process utilizing uniform upward flow is provided.

Abstract: Aeration apparatus for use in recovering values from slurries in a flotation cell wherein the impeller has a plurality of blades extending generally radially and downwardly on its lower surface, each blade extending from the hollow drive shaft of the rotor to the periphery of the impeller and generally increasing in height radially outwardly along the length of the blade. In the preferred form of the invention a stator is provided having corresponding radial blades located beneath the impeller.

Abstract: An apparatus for treating a slurry by gas-liquid contact, said apparatus comprising a hollow rotary shaft, stirring rods fixed to the lower end of said shaft, and gas supply pipes to supply a gas to the negative-pressure region which is formed behind the stirring rods as they rotate, said gas supply pipes having their openings fixed to the back of said stirring rods, and said stirring rod being provided on the top thereof with a plate to stabilize the negative-pressure region, said plate extending in the direction opposite to the rotating direction of the stirring rod.

Abstract: A propeller type aeration apparatus for inducing the flow of fluids into a liquid being treated by the rotation of a propeller in the liquid includes an outer housing having a hollow interior, and opposite first and second ends. A drive shaft is supported for rotary motion about its axis within the hollow interior of the outer housing. A motor is connected to a first end of the said drive shaft for rotating the drive shaft. A propeller is attached to a second end of the drive shaft and induces a flow of the liquid in which the propeller is disposed. At least one elongate conduit is attached to an outer surface of the outer housing. One end of the conduit is located adajcent to the propeller and in the path of the flow of the liquid caused by the propeller, and a second end of the conduit is in communication with a fluid to be injected into the liquid.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an improved process for the production of a flowable mixture which reacts to form foam from flowable components stored in storage containers, wherein prior to metered introduction into a mixing zone, at least one of the components is charged with a defined quantity of gas, by (i) introducing said one component and gas separately into a gasification chamber equipped with a hollow stirrer, (ii) sucking gas into said component through the hollow shaft of the hollow stirrer, and (iii) stirring the gas into the component, until the desired value is attained, the improvement wherein (a) the component is circulated from the storage container through the gasification chamber and back into the storage container, (b) the gas sucked through the hollow shaft of the hollow stirrer being maintained at a pressure at least equal to the pressure prevailing in the storage container, and (c) the component fraction remaining in the storage container is homogenized during those periods in which ga

Abstract: An apparatus for aerating water, including rigid supporting pipes, which serve to supply air, and covers which are disposed on the supporting pipes close thereto and are provided with a plurality of resiliently expandable slits. The supporting pipes, together with their covers, are disposed virtually in a vertical plane one above the other in a horizontal parallel position. The covers and/or the supporting pipes have air supply openings of different sizes such that these openings, when viewed from bottom to top, become gradually smaller in order to ensure that, when the air supply means is common to all of the supporting pipes and covers of an apparatus, the air throughput quantities are at least substantially identical in size at the different vertical positions of the supporting pipes and covers.

Abstract: The invention relates to the aerating of domestic and industrial wastewaters by means of an aerator placed on the bottom of the oxidation pond. Particularly the invention relates to the structure of the stator of the aerator. The stator comprises the stator shell structure (4), the stator ducts (7) directed outwards with respect to the outer edge of the shell structure, legs (5) attached to the shell and extending to the bottom of the pond, as well as triangular blade members (6) fastened to the said legs.

Abstract: A gas-liquid mixing process and apparatus having a vessel with an axial flow down-pumping impeller in a draft tube has gas ingestion tubes extending into a body of liquid from a hollow portion of the impeller shaft or other fluid communication means with the overhead gas in the vessel. Upon gas-liquid mixing at liquid levels that interfere with vortex development by the impeller, gas is drawn from the overhead through the ingestion tubes into the body of liquid.

Abstract: An aspirator aerator for inducing the flow of atmospheric air at high velocity below the surface of a substance so as to allow oxygen to freely and quickly transfer into the substance. The aerator includes an outer tubular housing having an inner tube disposed therein, one end of the housing being associated with an aspiration mechanism for inducing fluid flow through the aerator, the other end of the housing being associated with a drive for driving the aspiration mechanism. The aerator further including a deicing mechanism disposed between the inner tube and the outer tubular housing for deicing the aerator.The aerator may further be provided with a control circuit for controlling the operation of the drive and deicing mechanism in response to a signal denoting the presence or absence of icing conditions.

Abstract: A mechanical flotation machine comprises a flotation cell, a circulating pipe vertically installed therein, an axial impeller mounted in the lower portion of the pipe and a guide device secured to the lower end of the pipe. The guide device has an annular gap through which pulp flow generated by the impeller returns from the cell to the pipe. Vanes are installed in the annular gap to create, above the impeller, pulp flow rotating opposite to the rotation of the impeller.

Abstract: A spiral tube aerator for waste aeration which includes a shaft rotatably driven by a motor, the shaft carrying a mixing chamber, an air channel extending along the shaft and opening through at least one outlet of the mixing member, a blower for delivering air through the air channel, the mixing chamber being submerged in waste water at least to a depth of 50 cm below the waste water upper surface, and the blower providing a pressure in the range 0-35 mbar lower than the pressure exerted by the waste water at the outlet.

Abstract: An aerator of this invention comprised of a housing, a motor driven cylindrical tube having an open distal end extending through the housing, and propeller blades attached to the distal end of the cylindrical tube. The surrounding ambient air enters the housing and is compressed by pairs of opposing compression blades located therein, with the compressed air being drawn through inlet slots into a central conduit formed by the cylindrical tube, and injected into the water through the open distal end thereof. The aerator may also have optional feed vanes to direct the compressed air through the inlet slots, and fixed fins to redirect the flow of the water past the propeller blades.

Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for treating a solution or a slurry solution and its improved types. The apparatus of the present invention comprises a hollow rotating shaft having a sealing mechanism and a rotating mechanism at upper portions thereof, the apparatus being characterized by comprising a plurality of stirring branch pipes attached to the lower end of the hollow rotating shaft vertically downward extending into the solution in a storage tank, and a plurality of gas jet pipes disposed under the respective branch pipes, the gas jet pipes extending vertically downward and being opened at the lower ends thereof, whereby the shaft and the stirring branch pipes are rotated, while a gas is jetted from openings of the gas jet pipes through the sealing mechanism, the hollow rotating shaft and the branch pipes.

Abstract: An oscillating propeller type aerator apparatus for more efficiently aerating a liquid is disclosed. The oscillating propeller type aerator apparatus for aerating a substance according to the present invention includes a propeller type aerator and an oscillating support system. The aerator includes a tube, a propeller, and means for rotating the propeller. The oscillating support system supports the aerator with the tube and propeller at an acute angle below the surface of the substance to be aerated. The support system includes a mechanism for oscillating the tube and propeller through an angle about an axis transverse to the surface of the substance to be aerated in order to disperse over an arc related to said oscillating angle, air injected through said tube into the substance.

Abstract: An apparatus for treating a molten metal comprises a vertical post, a treating container disposed at one side of the post and having an opening at its upper end for containing the molten metal, a horizontal suspending arm mounted at its base end on the post upwardly and downwardly movably and rotatable in a horizontal plane, a vertical rotary shaft suspended from the arm and having a treating gas channel internally extending therethrough longitudinally, a bubble releasing-dispersing rotor provided at the lower end of the rotary shaft and having in its bottom surface a treating gas outlet in communication with the gas channel, the rotor being movable into and out of the container through the opening, and at least one baffle suspended from the arm and movable into and out of the container through the opening for preventing eddying and waving.

Abstract: An improved flotation cell for recovery of minerals from ore using a three phase system flotation process provides improved metallurgical recovery through improved rotor/stator and cell design by establishing good zonal separation within the cell and minimizing froth turbulence, providing uniform aeration in the cell, and accommodating higher aeration volumes before encountering turbulence. Parameters for the rotor/stator pump assembly, a deflector vane forming part of the stator and for pump assembly/cell configuration are disclosed.

Abstract: An apparatus for aerating water discharging from a hydraulic turbine comprises an air distribution apparatus secured to the trailing edges of a turbine runner. The air distribution apparatus comprises a manifold which contains a bounded air channel extending the length of the runner blade trailing edge. A plurality of holes are formed along the mainfold extending between the channel and the turbine interior. The channel is in air flow communication with a source of oxygen.

Abstract: An aerator (10) is disclosed which includes a hollow outer tube (12) and a hollow inner tube (14) rotatably supported therein. The inner tube is drivingly connected to a drive shaft (28) of the motor (18). A mounting flange (34) extends from a first end (36) of the outer tube and a mounting bracket (30) is interposed between the mounting flange and the motor. The mounting bracket and mounting flange are removably attached to the motor. A bearing mechanism which includes a bearing (44) and a ceramic wear sleeve (46) rotatably support a second end (40) of the inner tube adjacent the second end (42) of the outer tube. A propeller (20) is attached to the second end of the inner tube and has a pitch which is sufficiently high to move liquid past it at a velocity wherein cavitation of the liquid above the propeller is prevented at a preselected operating rotational speed.

Abstract: The present invention provides a process and apparatus for mixing gaseous mixtures into sea-water pumped from an aquarium through the contact tube of a protein skimmer. The invention forms air bubbles of a specific uniform diameter so as to obtain an optimum skimming. The apparatus has a centrifugal pump closed about the periphery of the vanes at the suction side. A suction port at the axial part of the impeller forms water intake ports which surround an internal gas injection connection projecting into an axial water suction connection of a central disk fixed within the suction port of the impeller. The height of the water column over the suction point can, within limits, be taken into account by different gas and water suction cross-sections, adjustment of the gas injection connection relative to the water suction connection, and different sizes of the impeller.

Abstract: Wastepaper is treated by a ink-removing process in which an aqueous wastepaper pulp slurry is introduced into a treating vessel, air is blown into the wastepaper pulp slurry preferably through a number of air-blowing orifices formed on a peripheral surface of at least one horizontal cylinder located in the bottom portion of the vessel to absorb ink particles floating in the wastepaper pulp slurry by air bubbles ejected from the orifices and rising toward the wastepaper pulp slurry surface. The resultant ink-absorbed froth is then removed. In this process, air is blown in an amount satisfying the relationship (I)G/L.gtoreq.5.0 (I)wherein L is the volume (m.sup.3) of the wastepaper pulp slurry in the treating vessel and G is the total volume (Nm.sup.3) of the air bubbles blown into the vessel, to promote the contact of the air bubbles with the ink particles in the wastepaper pulp slurry.

Abstract: A process and an apparatus are specified by which emulsions or suspensions of both different and changing composition can be separated in a particularly reliable manner. Proceeding on the principle of turbo-flotation, which is known per se, according to one embodiment, the gas is dispersed in the lower region of the vessel so that it is finely dispersed directly at the point where the emulsion is broken up or the suspension is separated, respectively, mechanically. Furthermore, the emulsion or suspension to be separated is supplied to the vessel close to the surface of the emulsion and the residue is removed at the bottom of the vessel. In this way, in continuous operation, a counter-flow between gas or gas/liquid suspension and emulsion can be achieved, thereby avoiding recontamination and re-emulsification. A strictly separated turbulence zone and a superposed flotation zone are formed. Foam carrying the flotate is formed on the surface.

Abstract: An apparatus for use with propeller type aspirating aerators for preventing the formation of vortices near an aerator propeller in a substance in which the propeller is driven. The device comprises a mobile floatable shield which floats on the aerated substance and eliminates a vortex by being drawn into one by the vortex's own swirling motion and contacting the vortex. The shield may be flexibly attached to a frame which also houses the aerator. Because the shield is not connected to the aerator, floats on the surface and is mobile, many of the problems faced with the prior art devices have been eliminated: the shield is easier and cheaper to manufacture; material does not wedge between the aerator and the shield; any problems with the shield are visible; the shield stops virtually all vortices; and vibration problems are eliminated.

Abstract: Improved methods apparatus are provided for introducing and entraining air into a waste liquid, thereby increasing the quantity of dissolved oxygen in the liquid to enhance the aerobic treatment process. A power driven propeller is preferably positioned at the discharge end of conical-shaped transition housing, and draws in air while waste water is controllably introduced to the transition housing from below the surface of the water. The housing upstream from the propeller is primarily an air chamber with incoming streams of water, while the housing downstream from the propeller is filled with waste water having minute entrained air bubbles. The water and entrained air are thus discharged downwardly, and the axis of the equipment preferably inclined to increase circulation in the waste water pond or tank. The techniques of the present invention have relatively low power requirements while substantially increasing gas concentration in the liquid.

Abstract: The object of the present invention is to protect the driver unit (1) of an immersible aerator and/or mixer apparatus against the surrounding liquid. The driver unit (1) is covered with a compact protective casing (5), to the bottom part whereof the gas to be lead into the mixer (14) is conducted through the gas supply pipe (2). At the junction of the gas supply pipe (2), inside the protective casing (5), there is located a gas supply channel (6) which is open at both ends, and this gas supply channel (6) conducts the gas to flow mainly upwards, to the top part of the driver unit. At its bottom, the protective casing (5) is attached to the base disc (7), and the gas flows through the holes (10) provided in the base disc (7) into the channel formed by the gas control cone (11) and the inner cone (12), and therefrom into the liquid either via the partly hollow secondary axis (13) of the mixer or via a separate gas pipe.

Abstract: An apparatus for photosynthesis includes a unique arrangement for supplying light and CO.sub.2 -containing air to a reaction chamber in a sure and stable manner. The reaction chamber is irradiated for photosynthesis from the inside and/or outside thereof in an intermittent mode. CO.sub.2 -containing air is routed from a CO.sub.2 source to a rotatable disc which is positioned in a bottom portion of the apparatus. Part of the CO.sub.2 -containing air is ejected sideways from the disc to cause it into rotation, while the rest of the air is ejected upwardly into the reaction chamber. The reaction chamber is partitioned into a plurality of compartments which are sequentially supplied with the CO.sub.2 -containing air in accordance with the rotation of the disc.

Abstract: An agitator device for charging gas into PUR-components and for the homogenization of the PUR-components and the gas for the production of a foam material includes a pressure vessel for containing the mixture of components and gas with a stirring device extending into the body of the mixture. The stirring device includes a shaft which can be driven in opposite directions. First and second stirring elements are located on the shaft. In one direction of rotation only the first stirring elements operate to charge gas into the PUR-components and when the shaft is driven in the other direction both the first and second stirring elements operate to homogenize the mixture. In one arrangement, due to the direction of rotation, the second stirring elements can be pivotally displaced between a stirring position and an inactive position.

Abstract: A surface-aeration rotor is provided with a carrier-part connected to a vertical drive-shaft. Secured adjustably to the carrier-part are several liquid-conveying units each consisting of a scoop and two flow-guiding walls. In order to improve the oxygen-input performance per kilowatt of rotor-drive power, the liquid-conveying units are designed in such a manner that the scoops are disposed in a plane which is twisted and which is curved in the direciton of rotation of the rotor, whereby the jets of liquid emerge from the rotor standing on edge.

Abstract: In a process for culturing microorganisms in a sealed vessel, the nutrient solution is circulated directionally and the microorganisms are kept in suspension in the moving directional flow. The oxygen-containing gas for aeration of the nutrient solution is run into the solution in such a way that it has a component of motion normal to the direction of flow of the nutrient solution.

Abstract: The invention relates to a flotation machine designed for floating minerals from sludges containing coarse particles. The flotation machine comprises a rotor (3) and a stator (2) provided with actuator machinery and auxiliary equipment (7, 8, 9). The bottom (14) of the stator (2) is solid and the stator-rotor mechanism is located within the cell apart from the cell bottom (10). The feed inlet pipe (12) is connected to the cell so that the feed is directed towards the mixing zone of the rotor flow.

Abstract: A hollow body, a rotor, with holes in the bottom and the side wall, is immersed down into a liquid and rotated with the help of a shaft suspended over the liquid.The liquid, which enters the rotor through the hole in the bottom, will, on account of the centripetal force, acquire a surface in the shape of a paraboloid of revolution. The centripetal force will throw the liquid out through the holes in the side wall, while new liquid will continuously enter through the bottom of the rotor.The shaft for the rotor can be hollow, and through this gas, solid or liquid materials can be added to the liquid.The invention makes possible the treatment in various ways of different types of liquid, from aqueous suspensions to molten metal.

Abstract: A device comprising a rotary shaft to be disposed in a liquid substantially vertically and rotatable about its own axis, the rotary shaft having a gas channel extending therethrough axially of the shaft, and a rotor fixed to the lower end of the rotary shaft and having at its bottom surface a gas discharge outlet communicating with the gas channel. The rotor is formed in its bottom surface with radial grooves extending from the gas outlet to the peripheral surface of the rotor and each having an open end at the peripheral surface. A recess is formed in the peripheral surface between the open ends of immediately adjacent grooves and has an open lower end at the bottom surface. When the rotary shaft is rotated in a liquid while supplying a gas to the gas channel of the shaft, the gas flows out from the discharge outlet into the radial grooves and is released from the open ends of the grooves at the peripheral surface into the liquid in the form of finely divided bubbles.

Abstract: This disclosure is directed to a wastewater treatment plant which includes pretreatment, aeration, final clarification and overflow/backwash chambers adapted to receive a fluid, such as home wastewater, which is to be subjected to extended aeration or aerobic digestion, the aeration chamber including an aerator having a shaft whose lower end is normally received in the fluid which is to be treated, an aerator foam deflector carried by the shaft which under abnormally high fluid levels increases the torque on the shaft and, thus, indicates abnormal operation, the final clarification chamber including a demand use filter, an overflow outlet operative should the filter become disabled, and a backwash nozzle located in the filter by reverse pumping therethrough fluid pumped from the overflow or backwash chamber.

Abstract: A froth flotation machine (40) having a rotary air-supply shaft (42) vertically disposed in a vessel (41) includes an impeller (50) comprising a series of interconnected blades (52,53). Extending radially and fixedly depending from a flat impeller plate (52) is a pumping blade extending over one-half the distance from the plate outer periphery to the shaft. Blade (53) is an air-inducing vane of lesser radial length which aids in inducing air from shaft (42) to pumping blades (52). The vane has a height less than 50% of the height of the pumping blade. The pumping blade has an L/H ratio of from 0.8 to 1.4 where L is its radial length and H is its vertical height. Slurry is pumped by the blades (52) from bottom of the vessel through a central aperture in a surrounding fixed stator base (56) having stator bars (55) extending upwardly and forming parallel-sided passageways (63,64) for pumped fluid.

Abstract: A process is described for pumping and aerating the mixed liquor within the endless channel of an oxidation ditch by using a pump/aerator to form an aerobic zone which has a selectively located planar end, where an anoxic zone begins, and within which biological nitrification of NH.sub.3 -N occurs. A pump/circulator, to which inflowing raw wastewater and return sludge are fed, is located approximately at this planar end to provide point-source mixing of the wastewater and return sludge, whereby the five-day biological oxygen demand of the wastewater is oxidized within both the aerobic and the anoxic zones and the nitrate ions formed within the aerobic zone are denitrified within the anoxic zone. Finally, an oxygen-deficient zone, wherein the mixed liquor is deficient in both dissolved oxygen and NO.sub.3.sup.- and NO.sub.2.sup.- anions and is ready for luxury uptake of oxygen within the pump/aerator, is dependably provided at the end of the anoxic zone.

Abstract: The invention relates to an immersible aerator and/or mixer apparatus to be lowered onto the bottom of a basin or tank containing liquid, often also solid substances, and particularly the invention relates to the supporting structures of the said apparatus as well as to the devices for protecting the motor and power transmission chambers of the said aerator and/or mixer apparatus from the liquid contained in the said vessel.

Abstract: A fluid diffuser for dispersing a gas or liquid into a body of receiving liquid in which it is immersed. The diffuser includes a rotatable shaft, a thin disk-like member mounted for rotation on the shaft, and an annular ring positioned adjacent the outer perimeter of the disk-like member. At least one of the top and bottom walls of the annular ring is porous. These top and bottom walls define a fluid plenum, into which gas or liquid under pressure is introduced to be emitted from the plenum as small, nascent fluid spheroids on the surface of the annular ring. The boundary layer flow from rotation of the disk-like member within the body of receiving liquid shears fine gas bubbles or liquid particles from the foraminous surface or surfaces of the annular ring. The annular ring may be fixed, or rotatable in the opposite annular direction from the rotation of the disk. Impeller blades may be mounted on the top and/or bottom surfaces of the rotatable disk.

Abstract: This disclosure is directed to a wastewater treatment plant which includes pretreatment, aeration, final clarification and overflow/backwash chambers adapted to receive a fluid, such as home wastewater, which is to be subjected to extended aeration or aerobic digestion, the aeration chamber including an aerator having a shaft whose lower end is normally received in the fluid which is to be treated, an aerator foam deflector carried by the shaft which under abnormally high fluid levels increases the torque on the shaft and, thus, indicates abnormal operation, the final clarification chamber including a demand use filter, an overflow outlet operative should the filter become disabled, and a backwash nozzle located in the filter by reverse pumping therethrough fluid pumped from the overflow or backwash chamber.

Abstract: To stir up and mix the substances held inside a retort, a blade is used, of a shape corresponding to that of the retort itself. Inside the blade there is a conduit, connected to outer devices for the admission of gas, and provided with a series of apertures, directed towards the inner part of the retort, for the discharge of the gas.

Abstract: The rotary surface aeration device used to rotate and aerate sewage is provided with a carrying part connected to a vertically running drive axle. A plurality of liquid transporting units also fastened to the carrying part.In order to improve the oxygen input, the liquid transporting units, which are adjacent to each other viewed in the circumferential direction of the rotary aerating device, have different jet exiting speeds. This is achieved by giving the scoop outlet edges of these liquid transporting units, which are adjacent to each other, a different distance (d, d') from the drive axle of the rotary aeration device. The liquid transporting units are arranged and constructed in such a way that the liquid jets of at least two liquid transporting units, which are adjacent viewed in the circumferential direction of the rotary aeration device, exiting from said units during the operation of the rotary aeration device strike each other before reentering into the liquid to be aerated.

Abstract: An arrangement for floatation of solid particles from liquids such as from sewage, particularly for settling of coal from a conditioned pulp, has a conditioning device from which a pulp flows in a predetermined direction, gasifying device having a gasifying surface extending parallel to the pulp flow direction, and a separating device having a substantially upright conical container for foam formation, a level controlling element, and bubble generator composed of an elastic and porous synthetic plastic material.

Abstract: An apparatus for aerating a body of stagnant water to neutralize the pollutants therein. The apparatus draws fresh ambient air above the surface of the water and forcibly disburses the air under the surface into the body of water for oxidation purposes. The apparatus comprises a hollow rotatable cylindrical casing provided with a helical vane mounted on one end of the casing. A series of holes in the casing wall adjacent the vane creates regions of sub-atmospheric pressure in the vicinity of the holes when the cylinder is rotating; thus drawing air from the interior of the casing and, by a scooping action, forcing the air generally radially outwardly and below the surface of and into the body of water. The cylinder is driven by a motor. The helical vanes may be formed of torroidal disc or washer that is cut and spread apart axially and secured to cylindrical casing.

Abstract: A flotation separation cell is disclosed having a rotor-stator pump assembly wherein a rotor body comprises integrally formed hub, blade and top plate members. These members form a gas chamber in an upper sector of the rotor. The blades are curvilinear and of parabolic or vortex shape. A gas stream which is conveyed to the gas chamber is discharged from the gas chamber in a transverse direction and flows in gas pockets along surfaces of moving blades for dispersion in a slurry.

Abstract: A method of aerating liquids, particularly for aerobic growing of microorganisms, has the steps of forming a circumferential stream of liquid, forming a longitudinal stream of liquid, and superimposing these streams so as to form a combined closed spiral-shaped stream. An arrangement is provided in which the circumferential stream is formed by an upright conduit tube and an impeller, the longitudinal stream is formed by a distributing element with a plurality of nozzles, and the superimposing of the streams is attained by fixedly mounting the distributing element relative to the impeller.

Abstract: A froth flotation apparatus for elimination of solid particle impurities contained within a liquid includes a vessel defining a flotation cell which includes an upstanding foam discharge conduit, an inlet conduit communicating with the vessel such that fluid flowing through the inlet conduit and into the vessel moves in a vortical fashion within the vessel, a skimmer, and a sparger. The skimmer consists of a generally cylindrical roller which is rotatably mounted between the discharge conduit and a side wall of the vessel and is buoyant so that it floats on the surface of the fluid within the vessel such that it is rotated by the vortical movement of the fluid within the vessel to prevent buildup of foam and maintain the motion of the fluid within the vessel. The sparger includes a substantially cylindrical porous element mounted on a tubular shaft which is rotatably mounted within the inlet conduit and driven by a motor.