The present invention relates to dry nano-sizing equipment with fluid mobility effect and more particularly to a device system required for the equipment that dryly processes viewable fine-grained substances into a nano-sized dimension by pressure difference of airflow and high momentum resulted from mechanical work.
Nano-sizing provides a brand new application to industrial materials and requirements of life in innovative areas. The related methods of nano-sizing include electrolyzing, magnetic cutting, ultrasonic dispersion, jetting or chemical dispersion & dissolution. If the material quality complies with a fundamental method, then a grinding method can be used to achieve disintegration into a nano-dimension. The grinding method is disclosed in a Taiwanese Patent No. 100106419 (as shown in
As the substances are grinded repeatedly and continuously in the grinding barrel 101, there is a very high probability that the nano-sized substances are grinded repeatedly; therefore, the grinding efficiency is not high. On the other hand, as the poured abrasives are not screened, the grain sizes will not be uniform, which results in a poor effectiveness.
A primary object of the present invention is to provide dry nano-sizing equipment with fluid mobility effect, wherein the equipment dryly processes viewable fine-grained substances into the nano-dimension. The equipment carries out a disintegration operation, including compression, pulling, percussion, cutting & rubbing, to nano-size the fine-grained substances by high-pressure airflow from a pressure-generating unit and a booster impeller that rotates in high speed to form high momentum inside a pressure cylinder.
A second object of the present invention is to provide dry nano-sizing equipment with fluid mobility effect, wherein the pressure-generating unit is provided with a covering drum. An interior of the covering drum is provided with a draining shaft to drive the booster impeller, and the draining shaft is axially provided with a semi-opened pressure cabin. When the equipment is operating, an entrance that is connected to the pressure cabin entrains the processed materials by negative pressure, and the processed materials are distributed in a pressure cylinder of the covering drum through pressure rabbets and a bus rabbet, so that the equipment can operate the disintegration by the draining shaft and the booster impeller.
A third object of the present invention is to provide dry nano-sizing equipment with fluid mobility effect, wherein a lateral shape of vanes provided by the booster impeller can be straight or arch, with that the area of vanes are larger for the shape of arch to result in a different working efficiency.
A fourth object of the present invention is to provide dry nano-sizing equipment with fluid mobility effect, wherein a feeding unit is disposed inside the pressure cylinder to feed in fine-grained substances to be processed. In addition, on a same input side, an auxiliary device is used to mix in gas in low temperature for cooling or inert gas for prevention from explosion.
A fifth object of the present invention is to provide dry nano-sizing equipment with fluid mobility effect, wherein a longitudinal line of an exit port provided by the covering drum passes through a rotation axis against which the equipment operates or is parallel to a tangent of the rotation axis, in order to determine various outputs of air momentum.
A sixth object of the present invention is to provide dry nano-sizing equipment with fluid mobility effect, wherein an outer end of the exit port is provided with an accelerating tube, and a rigid counter pillow is disposed vertically along an exit direction of the accelerating tube, with reaction force resulted from the counter pillow aiding the disintegration operation.
A seventh object of the present invention is to provide dry nano-sizing equipment with fluid mobility effect, wherein a circumference of the pressure cylinder in the covering drum is provided divergently with a feedback tube to aid inner circulation. The feedback tube is provided with a follower port in a large aperture to face the operational direction of booster impeller, as well as a return port that follows the operational direction of booster impeller.
An eighth object of the present invention is to provide dry nano-sizing equipment with fluid mobility effect. The pressure-generating unit can be combined coaxially front and back, wherein a prepositional pressure-generating unit entrains the processed materials, and the operational airflow boosts up a postpositional pressure-generating unit that is provided outward with the exit port to discharge the processed materials.
A ninth object of the present invention is to provide dry nano-sizing equipment with fluid mobility effect, wherein the pressure-generating unit is further connected with a separation device which separates the nano-sized processed materials from the non-nano-sized processed materials by pressure. In addition, the separation device can be connected serially into plural sets, which increases the screening rate per unit time.
To enable a further understanding of the said objectives and the technological methods of the invention herein, the brief description of the drawings below is followed by the detailed description of the preferred embodiments.
The present invention discloses dry nano-sizing equipment with fluid mobility effect to dryly process viewable fine-grained substances into a nano-dimension, wherein the viewable fine-grained substances are disintegrated into the nano-dimension in high kinetic energy by the working principle of fluid and the operation of mechanical momentum.
The implementation and the working methods of the present invention are described hereinafter in reference to drawings.
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The equipment is provided with a rotation axis S for operation, a primary shaft 31 is provided against the rotation axis S to be driven by a power unit 11. The power unit 11 is an electric or hydraulic power machinery. The primary shaft 31 drives a draining shaft 30 inside the pressure-generating unit 10, and the draining shaft 30 drives a booster impeller 40. The draining shaft 30 and the booster impeller 40 operate in a pressure cylinder 23 which is disposed inside a rigid covering drum 20, and a radial circumference of the pressure cylinder 23 is connected outward with an exit port 21.
An end of the draining shaft 30 is provided with an entrance 32, and the entrance 32 receives fine-grained substances to be processed (not shown on the drawing) that are fed in from a piping 51. The processed materials are delivered into a working envelope of the booster impeller 40 through pressure rabbets 34 of the draining shaft 30.
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The booster impeller 40 is provided with plural vanes 42 (as shown in
The number of pressure rabbets 34 is not the same as that of vanes 42. In order to uniform the spreading angles at which the processed materials enter into the pressure cylinder 23, and to equalize the pressure in the included angles between every two vanes 42, therefore, the pressure rabbets 34 have to penetrate the outer circumference annularly on the draining shaft 30 through a bus rabbet 410. The structure type is that the bus rabbet 410 is preserved between the root portion 41 and the outer circumference of draining shaft 30. The bus rabbet 410 can be concaved into a side on the root portion 41 in adjacent to the outer surface of draining shaft 30 or be formed by a concaved space of the waist 35 relative to the bottom edge of root portion 41. The bus rabbet 410 can primarily penetrate and surround the outer circumference of draining shaft 30 annularly to isopiestically distribute the airflow that is guided through the pressure rabbets 34 in the included angles between every two vanes 42. In the space of pressure cylinder 23, the entire combination of draining shaft 30 and booster impeller 40 rotates coaxially in the pressure cylinder 23 which is enclosed by the covering drum 20, forming a restricted space for the airflow except for the necessary airflow paths.
When the equipment operates, pressure is generated in the pressure cylinder 23, and the processed materials (not shown on the drawings) enter into the pressure cabin 33 by the function of that pressure (negative pressure), followed by being transmitted to a holding space of the booster impeller 40 through the pressure rabbets 34 and the bus rabbet 410. The processed materials are fed in following a swarming route R along which ambient air in atmospheric pressure is guided in, passively resulting in positive fluid pressure F after being spread and transferred into the pressure cylinder 23 through the vanes 42.
For the disintegration operation of equipment, shaft power inputted to the primary shaft 31 results in torque to twist the draining shaft 30 that links the booster impeller 40. During the process, the processed materials that are transferred along the swarming route R are first entrained by negative pressure resulted from the pressure cabin 33 due to the function of booster impeller 40. Next, the under the high-speed operation of draining shaft 30, the processed materials that flow through the pressure rabbets 34 will be smashed prepositionally by shearing & percussion on the surface of opening of the pressure rabbets 34. The processed materials flow through the edges of bus rabbet 410 and percussed by the edges, such as corners, of bus rabbet 410 again, forming secondary mechanical smashing. The booster impeller 40 and the draining shaft 30 operate synchronously, and the vanes 42 receive again the raw materials that are transmitted through the bus rabbet 410.
The pressure generated by the rotation of vanes 42 operates the processed materials on the vane surface, causing mechanical squeezing and pneumatic compression. The molecular structures of the processed materials are compressed and then collapsed again. The processed materials finally operate on the inner radial circumference of pressure cylinder 23, following the momentum caused by the speed and the mass of high-speed airflow. According to the law of motion, the momentum operates on the inner circumference of pressure cylinder 23, and then the pressure cylinder 23 results in force in equal size but opposite direction correspondingly. That force operates directly on the body of particulate substances. Therefore, the substances are fractured and disintegrated again. In the description above, the processed materials circulate and swarm in the pressure cylinder 23 one time, being disintegrated by the combined action of multiple physical energies including mechanical smashing, squeezing and collapsing. In addition, as the speed of airflow is high, the momentum of disintegration is augmented explicitly, which improves the disintegration efficiency of the processed materials.
The piping 51 is provided with the feeding port 52 to provide access of the processed materials. The feeding port 52 is disposed in adjacent to a central position of the pressure rabbets 34 in the pressure cabin 33, allowing the entrained materials to be transmitted along a longitudinal centerline of the vanes 42 in a fixed direction, so that the force exerted on the surface of vanes 42 can be balanced or uniform. Therefore, according to the taper shape of entrance 32, the piping 51 is converged into a shape of tip, allowing the feeding port 52 to be extended into an inner space of the pressure cabin 33.
A front and rear surface of the booster impeller 40 is combined indirectly by the vane sides 45, which forms a rotation body in a shape of circular block. The vane tip 43 of vane 42 can shear on the inner circumference of the pressure cylinder 23, and a gaseous floating gap 24 is separated between the front, rear surface of pressure cylinder 23 and the spoke 44, providing an air cushion effect of gaseous buffering. In addition, as the circular area of the spoke 44 is the same as that of pressure cylinder 23, the pressure of air distributed in the floating gaps 24 is uniform. Therefore, the air cushion effect is formed to equalize the pressure on two sides of the booster impeller 40, so that when the booster impeller 40 operates in high speed, the booster impeller 40 will not deviate axially. In principle, the booster impeller 40 is supported by the primary shaft 31 to operate in a fixed direction, and that operational direction is perpendicular to the rotation axis S. The air cushion effect of floating gaps 24 should be able to assist and support the positioning of booster impeller 40. Furthermore, as the input air is uniformly filled in the pressure cylinder 23, and the air is at a same density per unit time, the vibration on the surface of booster impeller 40 can be avoided under the function of air cushion effect. Wherein, the mechanical strengths of the spoke 44, vanes 42 and covering drum 20 are large enough to compete with the working pressure inside the pressure cylinder 23.
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The longitudinal line of the exit port 21 is superimposed with the rotation axis S, so that entered particulate substances P can be circulated multiple times in the pressure cylinder 23. On the other hand, as the nano-sized products are small in mass, there will not be enough momentum from the multiplication of mass by velocity. Therefore, they will be distributed outward toward the exit port 21 along the swarming route R, wherein the longitudinal line of the exit port 21 is superimposed with the rotation axis S. When one vane 42 reaches the exit port 21, the vane surface is parallel to the longitudinal line of the exit port 21, and the pressing efficiency is lower. Therefore, only part of pressure generated from the operation of the booster impeller 40 is released from the exit port 21, and other part of pressure is circulated in the pressure cylinder 23. In the circulation process, the swarming substances that circulate in the pressure cylinder 23 can be disintegrated repeatedly by the change in squeezing force and fluid pressure inside the pressure cylinder 23.
Furthermore, the formed pressure wave will pull the particulate substances P that are in adjacent to the outer circumference of the pressure cylinder 23 back into the booster impeller 40, and the particulate substances P will be disintegrated again by the momentum from the mechanical percussion onto the vane surface of the vane 42. The entered particulate substances P will be partly circulated inside the pressure cylinder 23, and the particulate substances P in circulation can have a larger probability of being smashed in high pressure. Whereas, as the nano-sized substances are very small in mass, they can be easily driven out of the exit port 21 following the streamlines of airflow on the swarming route R.
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After being outputted from the exit port 21 by the pressure-generating unit 10, the particulate substances P can work on a counter pillow 13, causing the percussion effect from the surface of counter pillow 13 to aid the subsequent disintegration. The nano-sized substances that are disintegrated are transmitted by pressure to the buffering space 77 from the notch 76, and then are disintegrated again through the counter pillow 13; whereas, larger grains will be also left in the hoarding space 75.
By the separation operation of the separation device 70, the filtering element 78 can select the requested nano-sized particulates effectively.
For the operation of the booster impeller 40 in the pressure-generating unit 10, if the rotation speed of a drive shaft of the power unit 11 reaches 15,000 rpm and the overall diameter of the booster impeller 40 is 45 cm, then a very large pressure difference can be formed between the entrance 32 and the outer periphery of the pressure cylinder 23. Besides, even a circular speed at the vane tip 43 can achieve the magnitude of critical sonic velocity. When the circular speed exceeds the magnitude of sonic velocity, ablation can be formed to air between the inner circumference of the pressure cylinder 23 and the vane tip 43, and the ablation can result in sonic boom. In addition, the temperature in the pressure-generating unit 10 from high-speed operation can be extremely high. To maintain safety in the pressure-generating unit 10, inert gas such as nitrogen can be guided in from the entrance 32 through a feed-in pipe 55, or low-temperature air can be guided in from an auxiliary device 54 to prevent from causing high temperature in the pressure-generating unit 10, thereby maintaining the safety of equipment.
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The collecting device 90 collects the finished materials from a transfer unit 93 via an outlet 92. The collecting device 90 can aid the generation of the gaseous pressure difference by a negative-pressure draining unit 91, wherein the negative pressure resulted from the negative-pressure draining unit 91 operates on the separation device 70, and the positive pressure operates on the outlet 92.
In the space of pressure-generating unit 10, a refrigerating function can be formed by a refrigerating device 12. The low-temperature energy resulted from the refrigerating device 12 is transmitted to the pressure-generating unit 10 to cool down the internal systems of the pressure-generating unit 10. A delivery unit 120 can be used to transmit the low temperature into the pressure-generating unit 10, or the low temperature can be transmitted to the feeding unit 50 via another path, and then the feeding unit 50 transmits the low-temperature energy from the refrigerating device 12 to the pressure-generating unit 10.
A streaming route 80 is formed between the pressure-generating unit 10 and the collecting device 90 by serial connection, wherein the separation device 70 is divided into multiple sections to acquire the nano-sized materials in a uniform scale at the terminal point more efficiently. The materials processed by the pressure-generating unit 10 are dry substances, including organic materials, inorganic materials or chemical compounds.
The collecting device 90 performs the collecting operation, with the working pressure equal to or smaller than the positive pressure at the outlet of the exit port 21. When the pressure outputted from the pressure-generating unit 10 passes through the first separation device 71, the intermediate separation device 72 and the rear separation device 73, undergoes a filtering in resistance consumption and finally reaches the collecting device 90, the flow speed on the streaming route 80 will reduce to a moderate state. Therefore, the negative-pressure draining unit 91 is used to aid the draining power of the streaming route 80.
It is of course to be understood that the embodiments described herein is merely illustrative of the principles of the invention and that a wide variety of modifications thereto may be effected by persons skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention as set forth in the following claims.
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