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Method for heating a liquid and a device for accomplishing the same
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Inventors: Selivanov, Nikolai I.;
Assignee: Advanced Molecular Technologies, L.L.C. (Westlake Village, CA)
Primary Examiner: Yeung; James C.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Snell & Wilmer, L.L.P.
Disclosed are a method and apparatus for heating a liquid using mechanical vibrations. The liquid is introduced into a cavity (1) in a rotating wheel (2) and expelled into an annular chamber (4) formed by the wheel and the stator (7), passes through a series of outlet apertures (8) and is removed. For this process, the following empirical relationships are preferred: R=1.1614 K/mm; .DELTA.R=1.1614 B/mm; and n=3.8396 K.sup.-1.5.times.10.sup.6 revs./min, R being the radius of the peripheral cylindrical surface of the wheel, .DELTA.R being the radial dimension of the annular chamber, n the rotation frequency of the wheel, K the number of outlet apertures in the wheel. B is an integer in the rang of 1-K/5. A method and an apparatus for heating a liquid /FIG. 1/ by means of the effects of mechanical vibrations that includes the introduction of the liquid into a cavity /1/ in a revolving rotating wheel /2/, the expulsion of the liquid into an annular chamber /4/ that is formed by the rotating wheel and the stator /7/, the passage of the liquid through a series of outlet apertures /8/, and the subsequent removal of the liquid. In this process, the following empirical relationships are preferred: PRETEXTREPLACED R--is the radius of the peripheral cylindrical surface of the rotating wheel, .DELTA.R--is the radial dimension of the annular chamber, n--is the rotation frequency of the wheel, K--is the number of outlet apertures in the rotating wheel, and B--is an integer in the range of 1-K/5. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION The goal of the present invention is to solve the problem of creating a method for heating a liquid and a device for accomplishing such heating that would make it possible reliably to implement in practice the desired transformation of mechanical energy into heat with increased efficiency, and this goal is to be achieved on the basis of the present level of technology and using the author's personal research.
This problem is solved according to the invention by processing the liquid with the aid of the mechanical effects on it of a process of swirling motion.
This process of swirling motion has a specifically defined linear velocity on a specifically defined radius of revolution, and with the superimposition of a process of vibrations having a specifically defined frequency.
For this method of heating a liquid in the basic working embodiment of the invention, the liquid that is to be subject to processing is fed into the cavity of a revolving wheel; the liquid undergoing processing is expelled from the cavity of the rotating wheel into the annular chamber that is formed by its peripheral cylindrical surface and the concentric surface of the stator, through a series of outlet apertures that are located on the peripheral cylindrical surface of the rotating wheel and that are uniformly distributed along the periphery; the liquid is expelled from the annular chamber through at least one outlet aperture.
For this to take place, the radius R of the peripheral cylindrical surface of the rotating wheel and the frequency or rate of its revolutions n is determined by the number K of outlet apertures chosen for the rotating wheel in a range corresponding to the empirical relationships R=(1.
05 .
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28) K mm and N=(3.
6 .
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1) K.
sup.
-1.
5.
times.
10.
sup.
6 rpm.
Beyond the bounds of the indicated range of parameters, the achieved result of an abnormal heating of a liquid, as has been demonstrated experimentally, is expressed with inadequate precision.
In the most preferred implementation of a method of heating of a liquid, the radius R and the rate of revolution n of the rotating wheel are defined unambiguously by the selected number K of its outlet apertures, according to the empirical relationships R=1
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