Methods and systems for distributing liquid chemicals
First Claim
1. A system for transferring and delivering a liquid chemical from a bulk source to an end use station, the system comprising:
- (a) a pressure vessel connected to the bulk source by a delivery conduit, the pressure vessel having an internal surface, the delivery conduit having a pump therein;
(b) a balloon positioned within the pressure vessel, the balloon having an interior and an interior surface and an exterior and an exterior surface;
(c) a space adapted to receive liquid chemical, the space defined by at least a portion of the balloon exterior surface and at least a portion of the pressure vessel internal surface; and
(d) means for delivering a pressurized gas into the balloon, whereby upon entrance of the gas into the balloon, the liquid chemical is forced out of the space and to an end use station through a discharge conduit, the balloon connected to the pressure vessel only at a pressurized gas inlet.
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Abstract
Briefly, this invention uses one or more pressure vessels having installed therein on its inside a balloon of flexible and non-expandable wall to smoothly and continuously deliver a chemical to any end user without contamination and gas dissolution. Since the balloon installed inside the pressure vessel isolates a high pressure gas from the chemicals, gas dissolution in the chemical and the resulted gas bubble problems are effectively eliminated. Further, contaminants in the high pressure gas which fills the balloon will not be transferred into the chemical and the extremely toxic chemical will not be transferred into the gas to be exhausted as a serious environmental issue. Unlike the vacuum/pressure system, the contamination by the ambient air leaking into the system is avoided because the disclosed delivery system is always with the pressure higher or equal to the ambient pressure.
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19 Claims
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1. A system for transferring and delivering a liquid chemical from a bulk source to an end use station, the system comprising:
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(a) a pressure vessel connected to the bulk source by a delivery conduit, the pressure vessel having an internal surface, the delivery conduit having a pump therein;
(b) a balloon positioned within the pressure vessel, the balloon having an interior and an interior surface and an exterior and an exterior surface;
(c) a space adapted to receive liquid chemical, the space defined by at least a portion of the balloon exterior surface and at least a portion of the pressure vessel internal surface; and
(d) means for delivering a pressurized gas into the balloon, whereby upon entrance of the gas into the balloon, the liquid chemical is forced out of the space and to an end use station through a discharge conduit, the balloon connected to the pressure vessel only at a pressurized gas inlet. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. Method of transferring and delivering a liquid chemical from a bulk source to an end use station, the method comprising the steps of:
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(a) delivering liquid chemical from a bulk source through a delivery conduit using a pump to a pressure vessel, the pressure vessel having an interior surface;
(b) providing a balloon inside the pressure vessel, the balloon having interior and exterior surfaces, the liquid chemical occupying at least a portion of a space between the pressure vessel interior surface and balloon exterior surface the balloon connected to the pressure vessel only at a pressurized gas inlet; and
(c) delivering a gas to the balloon, thereby causing liquid chemical to flow from the space to an end use station through a discharge conduit. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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