Abstract: A pulper in a stock preparation system includes a housing with a fiber inlet, at least one water inlet, at least one outlet and an inner chamber. A plurality of stationary pulping foils are attached to the housing and extend into the inner chamber. A rotatable shaft assembly extends through the inner chamber. The shaft assembly includes a shaft, an auger positioned around the shaft and relative to the fiber inlet and a plurality of movable pulping foils carried by and extending from the shaft. A conical valve is positioned in association with the outlet and is selectively movable to open and close the outlet.

Abstract: The subject of the invention is a dynamic mixer for viscous compositions, in particular for components for dental impression compounds. The mixer consists of a mixer tube, a rotor located in the latter, and an end wall with inlet openings through which the components to be mixed pass into the mixer. In doing so, they first alternately fill chambers arranged on the rotor. The composition then flows out of the chambers through admission openings into the mixing channel, where it can be stirred by mixer blades.

Abstract: An apparatus for conducting aqueous liquid media includes a plurality of static mixers, a gas distributor assembly with a plurality of nozzles, at least one impeller having blades attached thereto and a plurality of static mixer assemblies having flow guide elbows and collectors. The static mixer assemblies are independently and separately mounted to orient to the current leaving the blade tips of the impeller. Swirlers are also described as being utilized in place of the static mixers.

Abstract: A stirring device achieving high stirring efficiency and easy to wash and maintain, is provided. The stirring device includes a vertical cylindrical stirring vessel, a rotary shaft vertically extended within the stirring vessel for rotation, and a stirring vessel constituted of two or more basically rectangular vane plates vertically supported on the rotary shaft in symmetrical relation with each other with respect to the rotary shaft. On an upper portion of the stirring vane, a recess is formed for forming a cone about the rotary shaft when the stirring vane rotates. A lower end of the stirring vane is arranged in the vicinity of a bottom surface of the stirring vessel.

Abstract: Process and device for the mixing of suspensions with possibly different natures and/or compositions in the stable section of a paper machine. In the process, a suspension, particularly of the backwater of the paper machine, is piped in a mixing tube with the main flow direction in the longitudinal direction of the tube, and additional suspensions, with possibly different solid content, are injected. In the device, a mixing device and piping carry the suspension in the stable section of a paper or cardboard machine and blend suspensions with a higher solid content into a first suspension with little or no solid content. The mixing device and piping include a tube, at least one inlet for the first suspension, a plurality of feeds for the higher solid content suspensions to be admixed, and one outlet for the blended suspension, with a new solid content, arranged downstream from a bend in the tube.

Abstract: A device for kneading doughs and pastes consisting of a type of flour, a liquid such as water and other appropriate additives, which device consists substantially of a horizontal lying elongated trough provided with a curved bottom having standing side walls connecting thereto, and a rotatably driven mixing and kneading gear operating in the trough, wherein the mixing and kneading gear consists of at least two tubes or rods which are driven around the center line of the trough bottom and received in rotatable supports on either end of the trough, wherein the diameters of the rotating tubes or rods are practically identical and the circumscribed circle lies a short distance from the trough bottom, such that many types of dough mass can be made and the mixing and kneading gear is easy to clean.

Abstract: Process and device for mixing fluid into a pulp suspension of cellulose-containing fiber material, in which the pulp suspension is pumped in through a pump inlet (17), brought into rotation and, at the desired reaction pressure, mixed with the said fluid while passing through a reaction sector comprising a stator shell (1), a rotor (7) which is coaxial therewith, and at least one fluid inlet (23), after which the pulp mixture leaves the reaction sector through a pulp outlet (20), in which the fluid, via the said fluid inlet (23), is supplied in the vicinity of the center of rotation of the rotating pulp suspension, where the local pressure in the pulp suspension is lower, due to the centrifugal force increasing radially outwards, than the reaction pressure prevailing at the periphery of the pulp suspension.

Abstract: The invention relates to a control system for processing waste. The system controls pressure and temperature in a treatment vessel to provide a more efficient process. A system for shredding the waste in the vessel is used to improve process efficiency and provides a more compact waste product.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to making the mixing and refining of chocolate masses more cost effective by increasing the flow of energy through the material to be treated.

Abstract: An apparatus and method of stirring cells in liquid culture media is provided. Baffles are mounted along the interior wall of the container and a hump is positioned on the center of the bottom surface of the container. A stirring apparatus is positioned inside the container. The blades of the stirring apparatus are angled outward toward the bottom of the container. The bottom edge of the blades extend closer to the bottom surface of the container then the apex of the hump. The liquid in the container is at a level below the top of the blades such that the blades are moved through the surface of the liquid. A magnetic bar is attached to the shaft and is driven by an external rotating magnetic bar.

Abstract: A guide vane is provided in a pin fluffer to assist in pulp mat retention during fluffing by providing a cyclic lift component to the mat as it passes over the vane thereby also further increasing retention time obtained in the fluffer.

Abstract: An analyzer for performing automated assay testing. The analyzer includes a storage and conveyor system for conveying cuvettes to an incubation or processing conveyor, a storage and selection system for test sample containers, a storage and selection system for reagent containers, sample and reagent aspirating and dispensing probes, a separation system for separating bound from unbound tracer or labeled reagent, a detection system and date collection/processing system All of the sub-units of the machine are controlled by a central processing unit to coordinate the activity of all of the subunits of the analyze. The analyzer is specifically suited for performing heterogeneous binding assay protocols, particularly immunoassays.

Abstract: A continuous dynamic mixing assembly includes a mixing chamber having an inner wall which is generally symmetrical about a central axis. At least one first fluid inlet introduces first fluid material into the mixing chamber. At least one second fluid inlet introduces second fluid material into the mixing chamber. At least one outlet permits fluid to leave the mixing chamber. First baffles extend along the inner wall generally parallel to the axis for disrupting fluid flow generally circumferentially in the mixing chamber. Second baffles extend generally transverse to the axis for disrupting fluid flow generally axially in the mixing chamber. A rotatable agitator includes a cylindrical central portion extending in the mixing chamber along the axis and has at least one blade having a twisted orientation on the central portion. A relative construction and arrangement among the first baffles, the second baffles and the agitator enable residence time of fluid in the reactor to be selectively adjusted.

Abstract: A mixing apparatus for mixing black liquor from cellulose production with ash from flue gases which is generated on combustion of black liquor. The mixing apparatus contains a cylindrical tank, a stirrer mechanism having a propeller secured on the upper part of a vertical shaft, rotating baffles secured on the lower part of the shaft, and stationary, vertical, radial baffles arranged around, and at a distance from, the rotating baffles. The invention also provides a method for mixing black liquor and ash.

Abstract: A device 10 for dissolving a coagulant having a rotor chamber 13 supporting rotors 21 around the horizontal axis, wherein a mixture of the coagulant and water is fed to the rotor chamber 13, the liquid level of the mixture is kept at a medium level of the rotors 21, and the mixture can be stirred vertically by means of the rotation of the rotors 21.

Abstract: In the case of a mixing and kneading apparatus for the, in particular, thermal treatment of products in the liquid, pasty and/or pulverulent state, with or without the supply and discharge of gases and vapors, in a housing (1), a shaft (2) rotating in said housing and having disk segments (3) or similar disc-like elements arranged on it, which segments or elements interact with mating kneading elements (7) fixed on the housing, the intention is to form, between the mating kneading elements (7), and between the mating kneading elements and the disk segments, an open space (12) in which a mixing arm (14) engages from the shaft (2). In this case, mixing arms (14) of different configurations engage in the open space (toric space 12) from the shaft (2).

Abstract: A method for treating a continuous flow of fluent materials employs an apparatus (20, 200) comprising a generally cylindrical housing (23, 202) having an inlet (22, 204), an outlet (24, 206) and a plurality of treatment stages for successively imparting pulses of energy to the fluent materials in order to disassociate the materials at the molecular level and achieve a homogeneous, highly dispersed mixture. Each of the treatment stages includes a pair of baffle plates (50, 52, 248, 250) which are relatively rotatable and oppose the flow of fluent materials through the housing, to define alternating zones of high pressure and cavitation. Each pair of the baffle plates include matched sets of openings (54, 56, 252, 254) therein which are periodically brought into alignment with each other as one plate rotates relative to the other, thereby allowing bursts of the fluent material to flow therethrough, from an upstream area (32, 212) of relatively high pressure into a cavitation area (84, 258).

Abstract: A mixer for delaminating, deagglomerating, mixing, and extruding a mixture of powder and liquid, which contains a mixing chamber, a variable speed rotating shaft disposed within the chamber, a multiplicity of stators extending from the interior wall of the chamber towards the shaft, and a multiplicity of differently configured auger blades connected to the shaft. The device contains a first, second, and third set of auger blades, each of which is connected to the shaft. The first set of augur blades has a pitch which is at least twice as great as the pitch of each of the second and third set of augur blades, and it also has a smaller face area.

Abstract: In a kneader mixer for the thermal or chemical treatment of products in liquid, pasty and/or powdered form within a housing (1), a kneader shaft (20) which is provided with blade elements (25) and rotates around an axis of rotation (A) is arranged. Between the blade elements (25) there are kneading-support elements (27, 43) having in each case a foot (32) fastened on the housing. The blade element(s) (35) is (are) arranged in blade planes (E) perpendicular to the kneader shaft. In this connection, the foot (32) of the kneading-support element (27, 43) also lies in the plane (E) of the blade element(s) (25).

Abstract: A device for treating a continuous flow of fluent materials employs an apparatus (20, 200) comprising a generally cylindrical housing (23, 202) having an inlet (22, 204), an outlet (24, 206) and a plurality of treatment stages for successively imparting pulses of energy to the fluent materials in order to disassociate the materials at the molecular level and achieve a homogeneous, highly dispersed mixture. Each of the treatment stages includes a pair of baffle plates (50, 52, 248, 250) which are relatively rotatable and oppose the flow of fluent materials through the housing, to define alternating zones of high pressure and cavitation. Each pair of the baffle plates include matched sets of openings (54, 56, 252, 254) therein which are periodically brought into alignment with each other as one plate rotates relative to the other, thereby allowing bursts of the fluent material to flow therethrough, from an upstream area (32, 212) of relatively high pressure into a cavitation area (84, 258).

Abstract: A vortex elimination device, suitable for insertion into a container of liquid, includes an upper end cap, a lower end cap, and a plurality of longitudinally extending vanes connecting the upper and lower end caps. Each of the plurality of vanes has first and second longitudinal edges extending between the upper and lower end caps. The vanes together define a treatment area where the first edge is proximate the treatment area and the second edge is distal from the treatment area. The first edge of each of the plurality of vanes terminates at an open space and is positioned at an angle where the angle is measured between each of the plurality of vane's centerline and a line drawn tangent to the upper and lower end caps where the second edge of each of the vanes and the upper and lower end caps connect. The plurality of vanes can be movably connected to the end caps to permit the angles for the plurality of vanes to be varied.

Abstract: Disclosed is a temperature control system and a kneading-mixing extruder apparatus implementing the temperature control system. The temperature control system includes a flow passage formed in a stationary disc having a plurality of holes provided in a kneading mechanism of the extruder apparatus, a fluid supply device for supplying temperature-adjusted fluid into the flow passage and a temperature control device for setting the temperature of the stationary disc to a desired target temperature.

Abstract: The invention is relates to improved stirred-tank reactors which are suitable, due to special fittings, for converting the results of e.g. microbial or enzymatic processes obtained when they are used on a laboratory scale into an industrial scale. A shaft-driven disk agitator is provided, with at least one perforated disk being attached in the reactor above and/or below the disk agitator.

Abstract: A milkshake machine or similar apparatus uses the grinding and shredding principles employed by conventional impeller-type waster disposers. The milkshake machine has a housing that defines an upper grinding chamber and a lower receiving chamber separated by a rotatable impeller disk that mixes together and drives ingredients to be mixed against shredding surfaces on the inner wall of the grinding chamber. The receiving chamber has a discharge outlet, and a return inlet is provided in the housing above the grinding chamber. A discharge conduit is connected at one end to the discharge outlet at has a return port and a discharge spout at its opposite end. A return conduit is connected at one end to the return port of the discharge conduit and at its opposite end to the return inlet. A valve mechanism is provided to divert the mixed and ground ingredients expelled into the discharge conduit either into the return conduit and back into the grinding chamber or out of the discharge spout.

Abstract: A method and apparatus allow large volumes of gas (at least about 10% by volume) to be mixed into a cellulosic fiber suspension having a consistency of about 8-25%. The mixing of ozone containing gas into the suspension is particularly desirable. The suspension is passed into the inlet of a mixer, gas is introduced into the mixer, and the gas and fiber suspension are homogenized by fluidizing the gas and suspension. The flow of suspension through the mixer is throttled so that the effect of the fluctuation and pressure between the inlet and outlet is minimized, and the homogeneously mixed gas and fiber suspension mixture is discharged from mixer outlet.

Abstract: An apparatus for quickly making multiple-phase microemulsion fuel including: a primary mixer for primarily mixing water, catalyst, emulsifying agent, stabilizer and little quantity of oil in the primary mixer for producing oil-in-water phase mixing liquid; and a secondary mixer having a turbine agitator rotatably mounted in the secondary mixer, an eddy-flow guiding device of calabash shape disposed around the turbine agitator for producing upwardly and downwardly curved eddy flows of a mixing solution in the secondary mixer fed with the mixing liquid supplied from the primary mixer and raw fuel oil, and a plurality of turbulence baffles radially secured in the secondary mixer for limiting the eddy flows of the mixing solution in the secondary mixer into a plurality of eddy-flow "sector zones" for accelerating a thorough mixing and emulsion of the fuel oil with the oil-in-water phase mixing liquid for quickly producing water-in-oil phase fuel oil for better combustion efficiency and less air pollution when bur

Abstract: An agitator apparatus for agitating pellets of raw material of synthetic resins includes an agitation vessel for receiving pellets and coloring agents and removably housed in a supporting frame. An agitator is mounted elevatably on the supporting frame for entering into and withdrawing from the vessel. The agitator has a plurality of agitating legs and agitating blades which are mounted to respective lower ends of the agitating legs. The agitation vessel is provided in the center bottom thereof with an upright guiding pillar to which a stationary blade is fixed and is provided in the inner peripheral wall thereof with a plurality of mixing blades for agitating the pellets together with coloring agents in the agitation vessel to accomplish uniform coloring of the pellets.

Abstract: A mixing apparatus has a tank for holding a material to be mixed, a drive shaft rotatable in the tank, a radially inner impeller on the drive shaft with blades pitched to produce axial flow of the material in a first direction, and a radially outer impeller with blades pitched to produce axial flow in an opposite direction. The radially inner impeller can be a high solidity impeller disposed in a preferably-stationary flow shield occupying a portion of a circumference between the inner and outer impellers, and providing a barrier between the material flowing axially in opposite directions while leaving spaces for recirculation of material by radial flow at the ends of the opposite axial flows. The outer impeller can be coupled to the drive shaft by connecting members protruding radially through axial spaces provided in or around the flow shield. Baffles are fixed in the tank and support the flow shield.

Abstract: Mixing devices for mixing a processing agent with a pulp suspension are disclosed including a mixing vessel, an agitator mounted on the surface of the mixing vessel to create a flow of the pulp suspension across the mixing vessel, a processing agent supply for supplying processing agent to the flow of pulp suspension, and a flow divider mounted on the inner surface of the mixing vessel opposite the agitator, in which the flow divider includes a substantially vertical front distribution edge and a pair of arcuate front surfaces extending from that edge to the inner surface of the mixing vessel on opposite sides thereof.

Abstract: A method for the production of finely particulate solid chemical products from a molten stock comprises the steps of: (a) feeding the product, as molten stock, to an elongated treatment space, sealed from the ambient; (b) causing the product to flow as a flowable mass within space, while leaving a free portion of said space above the surface of said mass; (c) maintaining in said space an atmosphere that is non-reactive with said product; (d) subjecting said product to a stirring and mixing action by rotary means; (e) concurrently cooling said product as it proceeds along said space, whereby to solidify it; (f) concurrently detaching any product that adheres to surfaces within said space; and (g) discharging the solidified product, in the form of solid particles, from said elongated treatment space.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for mixing materials such as reactants in a container which reduces or eliminates vortexing and swirling, improves mixing and eliminates degradation of the container and/or impeller comprises a container for holding liquids, a magnetic impeller coupled to a drive magnet located outside the container, where the impeller is suspended from a baffle assembly and located above the bottom of the container, a baffle assembly containing at least two vertical baffle elements with a horizontal cross member connecting the baffle elements, a portion or all of each of the baffle elements spaced from the wall of the container and a tube for providing liquid addition to the vicinity of the highly turbulent mixing around the impeller.

Abstract: A main tank for preparation of glue having agitation effect and shearing effect far larger than in the conventional tank is fitted with an agitator having multiple blades on a shaft supported to allow rotation on the bottom of a tank. A disc is provided having numerous teeth in the radial direction, with a gap .delta. from the lower surface of the agitating blade. One or more baffles having a triangular cross-section are provided on the inner side surface of the tank and one or more baffles of the same construction are on the bottom. The lower surface of the agitating blade is of a flat shape, and can have teeth at an angle crossing the teeth of the disc. The gap .delta. between the agitating blade and the disc is adjustable.

Abstract: An apparatus for mixing and kneading raw materials, such as soap, and extruding the mixture into a predetermined shape. The apparatus includes a cylinder having a rotatable plodder worm shaft, a levigating mechanism disposed at a longitudinal position of the cylinder and including a rotary disc and a fixed disc fixed to the cylinder. The rotary disc and the fixed disc are disposed side by side along the axial direction of the plodder worm shaft and define a plurality of through holes allowing passage of the material in the axial direction. A flow passage forming member is disposed within a moving passage of the material between the rotary disc and the fixed disc and forms a flow passage allowing passage therethrough of fluid maintained at a predetermined temperature. A fluid supplying/exhausting device is provided for supplying the fluid at a predetermined flow rate to the flow passage and exhausting the fluid from the flow passage forming member.

Abstract: A guide vane is provided in a pin fluffer to assist in pulp mat retention during fluffing by providing a cyclic lift component to the mat as it passes over the vane thereby also further increasing retention time obtained in the fluffer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a continuous dynamic mixing assembly comprising a pump assembly for motivating a fluid material into a mixing chamber and substantially preventing reverse flow of gas and/or fluid material and a continuous dynamic mixing chamber assembly for efficiently treating fluid material, the continuous dynamic mixing chamber comprising a cylindrical inner wall, elongated baffles coaxially extending along the major portion of the length of the inner wall, porous inserts for introducing gas into the mixing chamber and a multibladed agitator.

Abstract: A juice extractor comprising a grinding chamber provided with a pair of helical gears for crushing juice material and a compression chamber disposed beneath and communicated with the grinding chamber and provided with a pair of rotating spiral screws. The spiral ridges of the spiral screws have cut-outs which engage with annular ribs formed on the interior surface of the compression chamber so that the residue produced by the helical gears of the grinding chamber is pressed against the annular ribs by the curved surfaces of the spiral ridges of the rotating spiral screws, thus further squeezing out juice from the residue.

Abstract: A mixer for mixing multi-phase fluids with various substances. The mixer includes a rotor with a plurality of blades extending within a chamber through which the multi-phase fluids and substances continuously flow while being mixed. The chamber of the mixer includes a single rib for generating turbulence and may be eccentrically located with respect to the axis of rotation of the rotor. In addition, the rotor blades and the rib may be separately angled with respect to the axis of rotation of the rotor.

Abstract: Method for mixing granulates, powders and liquids in a continuous process, whereby the material is placed in a mixing housing and is mixed therein with the aid of a rotor equipped with mixing arms. The material is thereby moved to and fro many times during one rotation of the rotor, towards the rotor axis and away from it. For that purpose the device with which the method is implemented has longitudinal stators, mounted principally in the axial direction of the rotor, between which the mixing arms move when in operation. The mixing housing consists preferably of two chambers situated behind one another seen in the direction of the axis of the rotor and separated from one another by the rotor disk. The material which is to be mixed enters the housing in the first chamber, where it is undergoes a preliminary mix, then flows into the second chamber and is mixed further there.

Abstract: A screw-type extruder in which the wall of the cylinder receiving the screw has an annular recess which is disposed in a radial region of a core bead of the screw and pins extend through this recess and are diagonally inclined to the radial plane thereof close to the circumference of the bead.

Abstract: The mixer includes a cylindrical mixing tube substantially submerged in the liquid asphalt and a paddle assembly extending axially through the mixing tube. An auger drives the ground rubber into an upstream end portion of the mixing tube and into the liquid asphalt therein. The paddle assembly draws the ground rubber and the liquid asphalt from the upstream end portion of the mixing tube and through the mixing tube. In addition, the paddle assembly accelerates the rubber-asphalt mixture as it proceeds through the mixing tube whereupon the mixture is discharged through a downstream end of the mixing tube. The mixing tube is formed with longitudinally spaced openings to allow additional asphalt to enter the mixing tube as the velocity of the mixture increases.

Abstract: A stirring apparatus includes a container with a rotary stirring shaft therein. On the opposite sides of the rotary stirring shaft are mounted an upper vertical flat blade and first inclined flat blades opposite to each other. A first vertical flat blade has a sweptback blade associated therewith, and is mounted to the stirring shaft at a position under the first inclined flat blades, and a second inclined flat blade or blades and a second vertical flat blade having an associated sweptback blade are mounted to the stirring shaft at a position under the upper vertical flat blade. When the stirring shaft rotates, ascending flows of liquid to be processed along the inner wall within a vessel are generated by the upper vertical flat blade and the first and second vertical flat blades that are each associated with a sweptback blade. Descending flows of the liquid to be processed are generated by the inclined flat blades, thereby enhancing the mixing performance.

Abstract: A mixing device which has a pressurizable chamber for aerating and mixing pumpable products is characterized in that the chamber has its mixing rotor shaft oriented vertically during operation of the mixing device in order to improve efficiency of mixing, reduce vibrations, and to reduce maintenance costs associated with prior art mixing apparatus.

Abstract: Methods for mixing a treatment agent with a pulp suspension are disclosed including supplying the pulp suspension to a mixing chamber, moving the pulp suspension through a mixing zone with the mixing chamber, supplying the treatment agent to the moving pulp suspension across the entire width of the mixing chamber prior to the mixing zone, and in which the height of the mixing zone is sufficiently small such that the pulp suspension and the treatment agent are subjected to kneading within the mixing zone in order to repeatedly stretch and compress fiber flocks in the pulp suspension. Apparatus for mixing the treatment agent with the pulp suspension are also disclosed.

Abstract: A mixer capable of mixing a resin material consisting of a plurality of liquids and of discharging the mixture. The mixer includes a plurality of agitating portions provided on a rotor shaft, and a plurality of partitioning members disposed in a mixing chamber with the rotor shaft accommodated therein, for respectively partitioning each space defined between adjacent ones of the agitating portions. A gap between the agitating portion and the partitioning member is set to be small, and the partitioning members are provided with small holes. The material which is fed toward a discharging end through the small holes is consecutively cut by the agitating portions, and the liquid resin material can be mixed at low rotational speed.

Abstract: An apparatus for deagglomerating powder in a mixture of liquid and powder. This apparatus contains a mixing tank, an agitator disk disposed within the mixing tank, and a baffle. The agitator disc has a maximum dimension of from about 6 to about 40 inches. The disc contains a multiplicity of compound teeth radially and removably attached its perimeter. Each of the compound teeth is comprised of a substrate to which is attached a front plate which preferably consists of a ceramic material, such as tungsten carbide.

Abstract: In an apparatus for mixing foundry mould substances, in particular sand and binding agent, comprising a mixing tool which projects from a drive shaft and which is rotatable therewith in a container, fitment bodies (30) of small lateral extent (a, d) project from the wall (12) of the container (10) at a spacing in parallel relationship to the shaft from the free end (29) of the rotatable mixing tool (24).

Abstract: Medium consistency (e.g. about 5-18%) paper pulp is mixed with a treatment fluid by fluidizing them while subjecting them to a constantly changing shear field in radial and axial planes. This is accomplished by providing a mixer rotor having a constantly varying cross-section along a dimension of elongation. The rotor may comprise a body having an external surface simulating alternately oriented cone frustums along its axis of rotation, with vanes connected to the external surface and including portions following the surface contour. A disk may or may not be provided at the end of the body connected to a shaft. A first interior housing portion has a configuration mimicking that of the rotor, while a second housing portion defines a fluidization zone with the disk.

Abstract: A plastifying extruder of the double-screw type, to avoid dead zones in the flow, has at its throttle location throttle disks on the screws formed with outwardly open recesses angularly equispaced on the disks. Pins distributed around the screws in the throttle region project radially into gaps between the disks and can penetrate to a greater or lesser extent into these gaps to provide a variable flow cross section.

Abstract: An apparatus for mixing plural flowable materials, for example liquids, is disclosed having a disk-shaped rotor connected to a rotating drive shaft and housed in a cylindrical chamber. The rotor has engraved on one or both faces a spiral-shaped groove to provide sufficient mixing turbulence and prevent unmixed solute from exiting the chamber. The chamber is defined by walls of two stationary end plates separated by an outer cylindrical barrel. When configured in multiple stages having a plurality of rotors connected with a single rotating drive shaft and housed in a plurality of axially arranged such chambers, a centrally-drilled passage intervening between chambers connects adjacent chambers. Additional solvent liquid is introduced at each mixing stage through a radially drilled passage. The materials to be mixed are confined to a narrow interstice between the rotor, adjacent walls and barrel, and pass in sequence from one chamber to the next.

Abstract: A transportable processing unit for producing a pumpable, essentially homogeneous admixed material suitable for use as substitute fuel or for thermal destruction by incineration, the processing unit including a closed mixing vessel mounted on a movable base member the vessel adapted to receive feedstock material from an adjacent on site holding facility through at least one entry port and to receive intermediate process material through at least one inlet port and a process material exit port as well as a mixing device located in the vessel interior.