Abstract: An air conditioner of the disclosure includes a compressor; an indoor heat exchanger temperature sensor configured to sense an indoor heat exchanger temperature; an indoor humidity sensor configured to sense indoor humidity; and a controller configured to calculate a dew point temperature using the humidity value detected by the indoor humidity sensor and an indoor set temperature, and control a frequency of the compressor based on the calculated dew point temperature and the indoor heat exchanger temperature.

Abstract: A spray nozzle includes a transmission component and a fan blade assembly. The fan blade assembly is connected to the transmission component, and can rotate with respect to the transmission component to create a vacuum inside the fan blade assembly, so that the liquid to be atomized under atmospheric pressure can enter the fan blade assembly through the transmission component. The fan blade assembly can also drive the liquid in the fan blade assembly to rotate so as to atomize the liquid and eject it from the fan blade assembly. The liquid in the fan blade assembly rotates with the fan blade assembly. A sprayer includes a body and the spray nozzle.

Abstract: An image forming apparatus has an airborne particle reduction structure located in an airflow passage and including a first L-shaped baffle and a second L-shaped baffle. The first L-shaped baffle and the second L-shaped baffle each include an overhang extending from a bent portion to a first end and a wind receiver extending from the bent portion to a second end. Additionally, the first end of the first L-shaped baffle and the first end of the second L-shaped baffle are both oriented toward an upstream position of the airflow passage. The second end of the first L-shaped baffle is attached to a first airflow surface of the airflow passage, and the second end of the second L-shaped baffle is attached to a second airflow surface opposing the first airflow surface and located downstream from the first L-shaped baffle.

Abstract: The invention relates to a multiple batch system for the preparation of a solution of calcium hydrogen carbonate and the use of such a dual batch system for the preparation of a solution of calcium hydrogen carbonate.

Abstract: The fan scrubber is provided with a casing having a gas draw-in port and a gas ejection port, a fan disposed in the casing, a nozzle from which a liquid is jetted into the casing, and a canned motor connected to the fan. The canned motor has a main shaft connected to the fan, a rotor which rotates integrally with the main shaft, a stator disposed on the periphery of the rotor, a motor casing in which the rotor and the stator are housed, and a can which partitions the interior of the motor casing into a rotor chamber in which the rotor is disposed and a stator chamber in which the stator is disposed.

Abstract: An arrangement for mixing a fluid to a process liquid by using at least one mixing station and a method of operating the arrangement to feed injection or mixing liquid to injection mixers arranged on a periphery of a flow pipe transferring a process liquid. The arrangement and the method are applicable for the injection of mixers and chemical mixing in processes for the wood processing industry.

Abstract: A removable air flow control housing having a chamber for holding a substrate which is rotatable with and attachable by vacuum to a spin chuck of a spin coating apparatus. The housing has a lid in a top wall that can be hinged, screwed, magnetically secured or frictionally held in place. The chuck is nestable within a cutout region disposed within a central inner portion of the housing while an outer portion of the housing has a toroidal shape beyond edges of the chuck for reducing air turbulence and capturing excess coating fluid. The cutout region forms a shape that corresponds to the chuck shape. An upper cutout wall has vacuum holes in vertical alignment with vacuum holes of the chuck. The housing is attachable by vacuum to the chuck when the chuck is nested within the cutout region and the substrate is positioned on an upper surface of the upper cutout wall. The housing and substrate are rotatable with the chuck about a chuck axis of rotation as a coating solution is dispensed onto the substrate.

Abstract: A method of preparing a network comprises disposing a solution comprising particulate materials in a solvent onto a superhydrophobic surface comprising a plurality of superhydrophobic features and interfacial areas between the superhydrophobic features. The plurality of superhydrophobic features has a water contact angle of at least about 150°. The method of preparing the network also comprises removing the solvent from the solution of the particulate materials, and forming a network of the particulate materials in the interfacial areas, the particulate materials receding to the interfacial areas as the solvent is removed.

Abstract: An improved misting bottle and fan apparatus capable of both convective cooling and evaporative cooling independent of either other. The operator can select to have the convective cooling effects of air being blown over the operator. The operator can select to have the evaporative cooling effects of pressurized fluid forced through a small orifice showered down at the operator. In the alternative, the operator is able to select both style of cooling using this device. The positioning and shape of the atomizing device in relation to the forced air is unique as well as the shaping of the air flow optimizes the cooling effects. Location of the atomizing device is proscribed as to prevent the occurrence of drips and runs commonly associated with misting fans.

Abstract: The current application is directed to an enclosed rotor-based cavitational and catalytic flow-through reaction chamber (“ERCCFRC”) that can be employed in a variety of thermal, chemical, and fluid-mechanical processes. The ERCCFRC features a reaction chamber that incorporates a spinning rotor, generating fluid-mechanical forces and cavitation in a fluid within the ERCCFRC. The reaction chamber further incorporates one or more heterogeneous catalysts that promote specific chemical reactions.

Abstract: The invention provides a spray centrifugal dedusting fan, including an air cylinder consisting of a spray cylinder, a centrifugal cylinder and a fan cylinder; the left end and the right end of the air cylinder are respectively provided with an air inlet and an air outlet communicated with each other; a spraying device is installed in the spray cylinder; a plurality of through holes are arranged on the wall of the centrifugal cylinder; a bracket is installed inside the centrifugal cylinder; at least one centrifugal impeller is installed on the bracket; a fan is installed inside the fan cylinder; an outer cylinder is installed on the external wall of the centrifugal cylinder 11; an empty chamber is arranged between the centrifugal cylinder and the outer cylinder; the lower end of the outer cylinder is connected with a water seal elbow; the water seal elbow is communicated with the empty chamber, the trumpet-shaped first water-blocking shield is connected to the right part inside the centrifugal cylinder; the le

Abstract: A high-speed centrifugal atomization mixing net for an exhaust outlet pipe, including a spray pipe, a shaft sleeve, an induced air blade, and an atomization net. The spray pipe is capable of rotating. The shaft sleeve is fixedly disposed on the spray pipe. The induced air blade is disposed on the front of the shaft sleeve. The atomization net is disposed at the back of the shaft sleeve. A spray hole opposite to the shaft sleeve is disposed on a side wall of the spray pipe. Multiple inclined spray grooves are disposed on side wall of the shaft sleeve. An end of the induced air blade is bent. The bending direction of the induced air blade is the same as an inclination direction of the induced air blade. The bent part of the induced air blade is connected to an outer edge of the atomization net whereby forming a stop plate.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to systems and methods for on-board refining of fuels within motorized vehicles. On board fuel refining is a finish-refining step that allows a fuel to be more precisely tailored to a particular vehicle and internal-combustion engine and to the current conditions under which the fuel is being used. In one embodiment, the fuel is subjected to fluid-shear forces and cavitation.

Abstract: A fan spray device is provided with a housing having a shape of a character head. A fan assembly is provided on the character head housing with a propeller for generating a stream of forced air away from the housing. A spray assembly is provided on the housing proximate to the propeller to dispense liquid into the stream of forced air. A handle is operably connected to the housing for movement between a retracted position and an extended position.

Abstract: A compact and energy-efficient polluting gas desulfurization apparatus which reduces gas flow pressure loss and the consumption of electrical power. A drum is rotationally supported at its radial center by a horizontal shaft within a fixed duct having a gas inlet port at one end and a gas outlet port at the other end. The right and left sides of the drum and its circumferential surface are lattice-like structures, and the internal space of the drum is filled with gas-liquid contact filler pieces. A slurry holding tank is disposed beneath the rotating drum. Slurry, which is pumped upward by a circulation system, is discharged onto the top of the circumferential surface of the drum at a point offset from the horizontal shaft along the radial axis, thus forming a mechanism able to rotate the drum from the weight of the slurry only and thus eliminating the need for an electric motor.

Abstract: An improved portable misting fan device of the type formed by a body carrying fan means for creating and moving a stream of air, the body further provided with a reservoir and having a power source for driving the fan means and electrical means for driving the power source which further includes a powered mist generator having driving means and an actuator for actuating the mist generator, the mist generator being in fluid communication with the reservoir and a mist nozzle adapted to receive a fluid mist from the mist generator and deliver the same into the air stream created by the fan means.

Abstract: A humidifying fan includes a base, a water swinging device and a fan device. The base has a water tank for storing an appropriate amount of water or other liquids, and an atomized water hole. The water swinging device has a power element and a water swinging fan connected with a suction tube extending in the water tank and having slots in its inner wall and plural water exits. When water is sucked up to spray through the exits, it is dispersed by the swinging fan to get atomized. But, a large number of droplets without atomized are to attach on a fur comb set around the swinging fan and then drop in the water tank. The fan device consisting of blades and power element is to blow and spread the atomized water for cooling air.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to a system and method for increasing fuel efficiency in internal combustion engines by radially accelerating fuel prior to combustion. In one embodiment of the present invention, fuel is input, under pressure, to an enclosed fuel-acceleration chamber between a rotating rotor and stationary rotor housing. While in the acceleration chamber, the rotating rotor radially accelerates the fuel and the acceleration, in turn, may generate turbulence or cavitation within the fuel. The fuel is then output from the fuel-acceleration chamber to a treated-fuel reservoir and to a fuel-combustion site.

Abstract: A scrubber removes dust from an exhaust gas. The scrubber includes a casing having an exhaust gas inlet and an exhaust gas outlet, an impeller housed in the casing and supported by a shaft, and a cleaning liquid supply tube for ejecting a cleaning liquid by which the dust contained in the exhaust gas is captured. The scrubber further includes a plurality of protrusions provided around the impeller such that the exhaust gas and the cleaning liquid which are discharged from the impeller impinge upon the protrusions.

Abstract: A portable cooling unit (i.e. a mister) having a portable frame on which a fan and a water tank is mounted. A pump is mounted on the frame for pumping water from the tank to nozzles in a mister head which, in turn, is mounted on the front of the fan. Both the direction and the flow through the nozzles are adjustable.

Abstract: A scrubber removes dust from an exhaust gas. The scrubber includes a casing having an exhaust gas inlet and an exhaust gas outlet, an impeller housed in the casing and supported by a shaft, and a cleaning liquid supply tube for ejecting a cleaning liquid by which the dust contained in the exhaust gas is captured. The scrubber further includes a plurality of protrusions provided around the impeller such that the exhaust gas and the cleaning liquid which are discharged from the impeller impinge upon the protrusions.

Abstract: A rotary heat and/or mass transfer arrangement in which a liquid component undergoes heat and/or mass transfer with a vapor component includes a rotor 10 on which a layer of fluid is applied by nozzles 16. The flow across the rotor is actively disturbed by a radial row of nozzles 20, to enhance the heat and/or mass transfer coefficients.

Abstract: An apparatus for polishing a semiconductor wafer is provided comprising a wafer carrier to provide a force against a wafer and a rotating polishing pad during the polishing operation and a polishing slurry dispenser device disposed to dispense the slurry toward the pad preferably as a stream or more preferably drops toward the pad surface and a curtain of air to intersect the slurry at or near the polishing pad surface. The wafer is polished using less slurry than a conventional polishing apparatus while still maintaining the polishing rates and polishing uniformity of the prior art polishing apparatus. A preferred dispenser is an elongated housing having a slurry tube and air tube therein each tube having a plurality of spaced apart slurry openings and air openings along its longitudinal axis which tube is preferably positioned radially over at least one-half the diameter of the polishing pad.

Abstract: A portable fan with misting nozzles for providing a cooling mist to the air flow of a fan. The portable fan with misting nozzles includes a fan assembly adapted for creating an air flow. A water supply assembly for storing water. A plurality of nozzles adapted for spraying a mist of water into the air flow of the fan assembly. The nozzles are in fluid communication with the water supply assembly. The nozzles are coupled to the fan assembly.

Abstract: A water fountain spray modifier for use in combination with a pond aerator to modify the water fountain spray pattern generated by the pond aerator. The water fountain spray modifier includes a support arm pivotally mounted between a pair of brackets mounted to the pond aerator. The support arm includes a spray diffuser formed on its first end and is movable between an operative position and an inoperative position. When the support arm is in the operative position, the spray diffuser is generally aligned with the outlet opening of the pond aerator such that the spray diffuser reduces the height of the water fountain produced by the pond aerator. The water fountain spray modifier includes a locking mechanism that secures the support arm and attached spray diffuser in either the operative position or the inoperative position. The locking mechanism includes a plunger movable between a retracted position and an extended position.

Abstract: Heat transfer apparatus comprises a refrigeration assembly having a low pressure region and a high pressure region. The apparatus may also include a power generation assembly connected to the refrigeration assembly between the low and high pressure regions. The refrigeration assembly and the power generation assembly are so arranged that refrigerant in the high pressure region can be passed through the power generation assembly to the low pressure region of the refrigeration assembly. Power may be generated by the power generation assembly on passage therethrough of the refrigerant. The apparatus may also include an absorption region comprising a piston and cylinder, ejector cycles in combination with absorption cycles, fibre heat exchanges, vortex tubes, and one embodiment comprises lamp or a torch.

Abstract: Apparatus for use in the rectification of liquid mixtures (separation of liquid mixtures into their constituents) and other processes requiring equilibration of liquid and gaseous phases in which mechanical energy is used to create and repeatedly regenerate free flying liquid structures that facilitate the intimate interaction and equilibration of said phases beyond standard practice and thereby allow smaller, more compact, more efficient, and more accessible apparatus and make practical lower operating temperatures and the use of inert carrier gases and otherwise increase the engineering options available to designers of rectification equipment and other equipment requiring liquid/vapor equilibration.

Abstract: Gases containing solubles or suspended particles are mixed with a scrubbing liquid in a mixing apparatus having a chamber with a rotatable wheel mounted therein. The gas is mixed with a scrubbing liquid by the rotating wheel which has first and second scrubbing surfaces including vanes for creating turbulence and moving the gas through the chamber. The vanes on the first scrubbing surface increase in height from the axis of the wheel to its periphery to move gas radially outwardly. The vanes on the second scrubbing surface increase in height from the periphery to the axis of the wheel to move the gas radially inwardly.

Abstract: A portable fan device for use with a spray misting bottle which is capable of being mounted atop a spray applicating head portion of the misting bottle so that a fan blade unit of the fan device is positioned forwardly and in communication with an atomized spray nozzle of the spray head and cools and atomizes the mist spray issued by the nozzle. Releasable securing means such as an attachment bracket or contoured gripping tabs extending from the fan underside are employed for securing the fan body in a generally horizontal fashion atop the spray head. A stand member is held within a recessed cavity in the fan underside and can be rotated downwardly to support the fan device in an upright position for use as a portable fan once the fan body has been detached from atop the spray head. In a further embodiment, a gripping tab which forms part of the releasable securing means can provide the dual function of gripping part of the spray head and supporting the fan body in an upright position.

Abstract: Apparatus for the purification of gas and vapor streams by the removal of solid, liquid or aeriform polluting substances; the apparatus including a stator formed as a tubular body having a cylindrical inner wall, which body is furnished with at least one inlet aperture for the admission of gas or vapor streams containing solid, liquid or gaseous impurities and with at least one discharge aperture, a coaxial rotor extending longitudinally and revolvably supported inside the tubular body in such a way as to define with the cylindrical wall at least one annular passage, and an inlet for the admission of liquid into the tubular body.

Abstract: Gases containing solubles or suspended particles are mixed with a scrubbing liquid in a mixing apparatus having a chamber with a rotatable wheel mounted therein. The gas is mixed with a scrubbing liquid by the rotating wheel which has first and second scrubbing surfaces including vanes for creating turbulence and moving the gas through the chamber. The vanes on the first scrubbing surface increase in height from the axis of the wheel to its periphery to move gas radially outwardly. The vanes on the second scrubbing surface increase in height from the periphery to the axis of the wheel to move the gas radially inwardly.

Abstract: A device for simultaneously filtering and humidifying an air flow uses an outer casing having a rotatable, reticulated filtering element. The air flow enters the casing and must pass through the filtering element by making abrupt change in directions. Particles in the air flow, due to their greater inertia, will not be able to follow the air flow and, therefore, will not pass through the filtering element. There are expelled through an opening. The air flow exists through an outlet that is within the perimeter of the filtering element. A water projector serves to both humidify the air flow and wetten the filter elements surface in order to capture particles in the air flow.

Abstract: A compact portable misting fan includes a novel and attractive housing which makes extremely efficient use of space, encased fan blades which are mounted between front and rear baffles, a liquid reservoir with an atomizer, conveniently located mist and fan controls, and an easily accessible battery compartment. The housing has a substantially flat profile with a substantially cylindrical upper section in which the fan is mounted and a substantially rectilinear lower section in which the reservoir and batteries are contained. The fan on/off switch is located on a lower portion of the cylindrical upper section and the misting button is located on an upper portion of the rectilinear lower section and on a side opposite to the fan switch. It is easily held in the user's hand so that the fan and the mister can be operated separately by thumb or index finger. A small hole is provided in the housing for the outlet of the atomizer.

Abstract: A compact portable misting fan includes a novel and attractive housing which makes extremely efficient use of space, encased fan blades which are mounted between front and rear baffles, a liquid reservoir with an atomizer, conveniently located mist and fan controls, and an easily accessible battery compartment. The housing has a substantially flat profile with a substantially cylindrical upper section in which the fan is mounted and a substantially rectilinear lower section in which the reservoir and batteries are contained. The fan on/off switch is located on a lower portion of the cylindrical upper section and the misting button is located on an upper portion of the rectilinear lower section and on a side opposite to the fan switch. It is easily held in the user's hand so that the fan and the mister can be operated separately by thumb or index finger. A small hole is provided in the housing for the outlet of the atomizer.

Abstract: A portable fan device for use with a spray misting bottle which is capable of being mounted atop a spray applicating head portion of the misting bottle so that a fan blade unit of the fan device is positioned forwardly and in communication with an atomized spray nozzle of the spray head and cools and atomizes the mist spray issued by the nozzle. Releasable securing means such as an attachment bracket or contoured gripping tabs extending from the fan underside are employed for securing the fan body in a generally horizontal fashion atop the spray head. A stand member is held within a recessed cavity in the fan underside and can be rotated downwardly to support the fan device in an upright position for use as a portable fan once the fan body has been detached from atop the spray head. In a further embodiment, a gripping tab which forms part of the releasable securing means can provide the dual function of gripping part of the spray head and supporting the fan body in an upright position.

Abstract: A portable misting device and fan for use by sunbathers and those engaged in athletic pursuits. The fan encloses a fan blade unit and the misting device includes a body which contains a volume of a liquid and which is mounted to a rear of the fan by a mounting bracket. A spray applicator extends from the body and is in a direction above and toward a front of said fan blade unit. The spray applicator is actuable to withdraw fluid from within the misting device body and to supply it as an atomized spray in front of the fan blade unit. The fan blade unit cools and distributes the spray in a direction chosen by the user.

Abstract: An apparatus for dissolving gas into water from a lake, pond or the like, including a housing having a surface defining an enclosed volume, a water intake conduit having an external inlet end and an outlet end inside the housing between which water flows through the housing, a reservoir within the housing having first and second apertures, the first aperture positioned to receive liquid discharged from the outlet end of the liquid intake conduit, a liquid evacuating conduit having an inlet internal to the housing and an outlet external to the housing for conducting water through the housing, the inlet end of the liquid evacuating conduit being sealed about the second reservoir aperture to evacuate the water, a water atomizer within the housing and positioned between the liquid intake conduit outlet and the first reservoir aperture to atomize the water before the water enters the reservoir, and a gas intake conduit with an inlet end connected to the housing exterior and an outlet end inside the housing to cond

Abstract: There is disclosed an integral portable fan and atomizing head unit forming a portable cooling unit adapted for direct attachment to a fluid reservoir such as a bottle, formed by a unit having an upper chamber and a lower chamber and a connector secured to the lower chamber. The upper chamber is provided with a motor and electrical means to activate and deactivate the motor and fan means including flexible fan blades mounted externally on the upper chamber and connected to the motor to turn in response to the activation of the motor. The lower chamber is provided with pump means and pump activation means and provided with an atomizing head in order to atomize fluid pumped up through the head. The connector is attached to the lower chamber and is adapted to disengageably engage a fluid reservoir directly, such as a bottle.

Abstract: A pressure generator and gas scrubber includes a scroll casing having a gas discharge outlet and a plurality of liquid outlets; a hollow shaft extending through the casing for supplying water thereto; a plurality of radially-extending water feed tubes centrally positioned in the casing and secured to the hollow shaft in fluid communication therewith, each tube having an open outlet end at the free end thereof such that liquid supplied through the hollow shaft travels to the open outlet ends of the feed tubes and each tube having a constricted opening at the open outlet end thereof; a drive motor connected to the hollow shaft for rotating the hollow shaft and the plurality of feed tubes; and two gas inlet boxes positioned on opposite sides of the scroll casing in fluid communication with a central portion of the casing, for supplying a contaminated gas to be scrubbed to the casing adjacent the inlet ends of the feed tubes, such that water jets ejected from the open outlet ends of the feed tubes pull the gas ad

Abstract: An air humidifier for moisturizing air in a dry treatment device for a photographic material comprises a housing having inner walls and provided with at least one air aspiration openng and at least one air discharge opening, a moisturizable element arranged in the housing, a unit for blowing air through the moisturizable element and then through the air discharge opening to a space to be moisturized and also located in the housing, the moisturizing element being formed as a rotatable disc arranged before the air discharged opening and provided with rotary drive unit for its rotation, a light protective plate arranged between the moisturizable disc and the unit for blowing air and at least locally spaced from the inner wall of the housing so as to form throughgoing air passages, and light separating parts provided behind the throughgoing air passages and before the moisturizable disc.

Abstract: A liquid vaporizing apparatus having a cylindrical heated vaporizing surface against which atomized droplets of liquid are thrown by a spinning disk; the disk receiving a continuous thin film of liquid from a capillary tube spaced from the disk so that a fluid drop fed from the tube end is contacted by the disk to roll the drop while pulling a liquid film from the drop, the liquid being continuously replenished from the tube.

Abstract: In glass production, waste gases are usually produced which still have a residual temperature of 400.degree.-600.degree. C. even though they are normally used for preheating the fresh air for a glass melting furnace. To be able to utilize this residual energy effectively for the preheating of the raw materials for glass production, particularly cullet, the invention proposes to conduct the waste gases through a bunker (19) for the temporary storage of cullet (20) and to heat the cullet mixture (20) to up to 380.degree. C. during this process. According to a proposal of the invention, the cooled waste gases contaminated during the preheating of the cullet mixture (20) are conducted via a wet scrubber (26) before they are returned to the waste-gas duct (17) leading to the chimney or similar.

Abstract: A dispension for whipped beverages made from a concentrate and diluent. The dispenser includes a head structure forming a whipping cavity. A funnel is removably inserted into the cavity bottom. Two conduits communicating with the cavity are formed in the head to introduce concentrate and diluent into the cavity. An air passageway is formed in the head and intersects the diluent conduit downstream from the solenoid valve. A tube is inserted into the air passageway and partially extends into the diluent conduit to introduce air into the diluent conduit via a venturi effect. A whipping motor has an output shaft disposed through a bore in the head and partially residing in the cavity below the conduits. A paddle is connected to the motor shaft within the cavity. A resilient slinger washer is disposed in a circumferential groove about the shaft.

Abstract: This invention relates to a humidifier which includes a multi-bladed fan which is rotated at a high speed. The blades have flow passages extending therethrough and opening out through their end tips. Liquid is supplied to the center of the fan and distributed to the radiating flow passages. The speed of the blades is such that the liquid is forced through the flow passages in the blade centrifugally so as to produce droplets at the tips of the blade. The droplets are reduced in size by the shear forces of the blade tip passing through the air. The fan maintains the end tip vortex wherein as the droplets appear at the radial ends of the blades, the droplets are drawn rearwardly around the ends of the blades tips and then back through the blades so as to be further reduced in size by shear forces. The rate of fog production is controlled by a flow meter.

Abstract: The dust separator comprises a rotating centrifugal separator (10) having within a stationary housing paddle wheels (5) equipped with radially extending paddles (12) approximately located in axial planes. With these paddles (12) there are co-rotating walls (9) extending in circumferential direction and adjoining the paddles (12). Blowers (6,7 and 8) force the dust-loaden air through the centrifugal separator and spraying or atomizing means (1) are provided which are arranged as seen in flow direction upstream of the centrifugal separator. The walls (9) extending in circumferential direction have a diameter step-wisely decreasing in flow direction, noting that at the base of each stage there is provided at least one slotted passage (15) extending in circumferential direction.

Abstract: In a disintegrator gas scrubber having a flat fan casing in which a stator bar cage is provided which consists of a plurality of concentric rings of bars extending parallel to the axis, and in which a rotor bar cage rotates which engages in the stator bar cage and likewise consists of a plurality of concentric rings of bars extending parallel to the axis, a cleansing liquid is injected by means of a cleansing liquid distributor means disposed on the rotor shaft of the rotor bar cage into the centrally aspired gas which is conveyed by the bars, the liquid being finely divided by those bars. A novel geometry and design of the stator bar cage and of the rotor bar cage are indicated to enlarge the purifying effect so as to embrace also the finest dusts of a particle size of less than 1 .mu.m and to permit separation of the same at optimum effectiveness without impairing the fan efficiency.

Abstract: A housing for air-conditioning apparatus includes an inlet and an outlet. A controlled level of water in the bottom of the housing serves as a reservoir for a rotating disc which flings a curtain of water across the interior of the chamber in the flow path of the air passing from the inlet to the outlet. Three foraminous walls filter and mix the air with one wall upstream of the rotating disc and two downstream.

Abstract: Liquid fuel, such as gasoline, is converted into gaseous form in an enclosed chamber rotating at high speed (e.g., 10,000 rpm) and containing a catalyst support material impregnated with 90% cupric chloride and 10% nickel chloride by weight. The converted fuel passes through a microporous (e.g., 40 microns) peripheral wall of the container and then mixes uniformly with air flowing through an annular space surrounding the container to form a combustible mixture.

Abstract: A process and apparatus for the continuous contact and the subsequent separation from one another of immiscible fluids differing in density from one another, in which the entrainment of either fluid by the other is suppressed by obliging the less dense fluid to flow radially inward, from an annular passage between the interlapped walls of two coaxial conduits, through a generally continuous spinning ring of the denser fluid connecting the overlapped outlet of the inner conduit with the overlapping wall of the outer conduit, the two immiscible fluids separating centrifugally from one another with the less dense fluid being withdrawn from an inner space closer to the axis of spin than the surrounding denser fluid being separately withdrawn from the outer conduit.

Abstract: Process and apparatus is disclosed for purifying waste gases containing minute pollutant liquid and solid particles. The process comprises treating the gas stream with a fine spray of scrubbing liquid by introducing into the gas stream the spray of droplet size in range of 1 micron or less. The scrubbing liquid is mixed with pollutant particles to wet and enlarge them in a turbulent region without appreciably increasing the pressure of the gaseous stream. The mixed gas stream is passed out of the turbulent region to a zone for removing the enlarged conglomerated contaminate particles from the gas stream. Apparatus is disclosed in which the process is carried out.