PARTICLE SETTLING DEVICES
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1. A particle settling device comprising:
- a. a cyclone housing;
b. a spiral vertical plate disposed inside the cyclone housing, the spiral vertical plate joined at one end with a spiral conical surface tapering down to a first opening in the cyclone housing; and
,c. at least one additional opening in the cyclone housing opposite the first opening.
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Abstract
Settling devices for separating millimeter or micron sized particles from a bulk fluid with applications in numerous fields, such as biological (microbial, mammalian, insect, plant, or algal) cell cultures, solid catalyst particle separation from a liquid or gas and waste water treatment.
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80 Claims
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1. A particle settling device comprising:
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a. a cyclone housing; b. a spiral vertical plate disposed inside the cyclone housing, the spiral vertical plate joined at one end with a spiral conical surface tapering down to a first opening in the cyclone housing; and
,c. at least one additional opening in the cyclone housing opposite the first opening. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 61, 62)
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20. A particle settling device comprising:
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a. a cyclone housing; b. a spiral vertical plate disposed inside the cyclone housing opposite a first opening in the cyclone housing, and, c. at least one additional opening in the cyclone housing opposite the first opening. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36)
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37. A particle settling device comprising:
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a. a cyclone housing; b. a spiral vertical plate disposed inside the cyclone housing, wherein a height of the spiral vertical plate decreases from the exterior to the interior of the spiral; c. a spiral conical surface joined at one end to the spiral vertical plate tapering down to a first opening in the cyclone housing; and
,d. at least one additional opening in the cyclone housing opposite the first opening. - View Dependent Claims (38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50)
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51. A particle settling device comprising:
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a. a cyclone housing; b. at least two conical plates disposed inside the cyclone housing, the at least two conical plates stacked one above the other, each of the at least two conical plates comprising at least three vertical supports that project from a surface of each conical plate to hold each conical plate at a substantially constant distance from a next conical plate in the stack of at least two conical plates, each of the conical plates comprising an opening sufficient to allow liquid to pass through the openings in the conical plates, the stack of at least two conical plates tapering down to a first opening in the cyclone housing; and
,c. at least one additional opening in the cyclone housing opposite the first opening. - View Dependent Claims (52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69)
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70. A method of settling particles in a liquid suspension, comprising:
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a. introducing a liquid suspension into a particle settling device comprising; i. a cyclone housing; ii. a spiral vertical plate disposed inside the cyclone housing, the spiral vertical plate joined at one end with a spiral conical surface tapering down to a first opening in the cyclone housing; and
,iii. at least one additional opening in the cyclone housing opposite the first opening configured to receive the liquid suspension, b. collecting particles from the first opening; and
,c. collecting a liquid from the settling device. - View Dependent Claims (71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79, 80)
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