502 results about "Cavitation bubble" patented technology

A method and device for electrical emulation of pulsed laser is disclosed. The device utilizes high voltage electrical discharges of sub-microsecond duration in a liquid medium to produce cavitation bubbles of sub-millimeter size for use in high speed precision cutting. Such bubbles are produced by a micro-electrode (1.6) having a central wire having a diameter of 1 microns to 100 microns embedded in an insulator. A coaxial electrode (1.9) surrounds the insulator, and may be spaced from the outer surface of the insulator to provide a path for removing tissue.

A method and device for electrical emulation of pulsed laser is disclosed. The device utilizes high voltage electrical discharges of sub-microsecond duration in a liquid medium to produce cavitation bubbles of sub-millimeter size for use in high speed precision cutting. Such bubbles are produced by a micro-electrode (1.6) having a central wire having a diameter of 1 microns to 100 microns embedded in an insulator. A coaxial electrode (1.9) surrounds the insulator, and may be spaced from the outer surface of insulator to provide a path for removing tissue.

An apparatus and method are disclosed in which ultrasonic vibration is used to assist the degassing of molten metals or metal alloys thereby reducing gas content in the molten metals or alloys. High-intensity ultrasonic vibration is applied to a radiator that creates cavitation bubbles, induces acoustic streaming in the melt, and breaks up purge gas (e.g., argon or nitrogen) which is intentionally introduced in a small amount into the melt in order to collect the cavitation bubbles and to make the cavitation bubbles survive in the melt. The molten metal or alloy in one version of the invention is an aluminum alloy. The ultrasonic vibrations create cavitation bubbles and break up the large purge gas bubbles into small bubbles and disperse the bubbles in the molten metal or alloy more uniformly, resulting in a fast and clean degassing.

A rotating annular crossflow filter shears radially outward flowing axial feed between counter-rotating coaxial centrifugal impellers. A radial impedance of flow at the impeller periphery slows the radially outward flow and increases residence time of feed between the impellers. Shear lift ejects solids from the boundary layer at the filter surface, and ejected solids collect by centrifugation at the impeller periphery, where they thicken into a sludge and are extruded. Gases, oils, floating solids, and fractions having a specific gravity less than water evolve into radial vortices and are sucked radially inward and out from between the impellers by an axial pump. Three way phase separation proceeds continuously in one pass through a simple mechanical device having a long residence time for feed in the processing zone.Opposing rugose portions of counter-rotating impeller surfaces cause audio frequency pressure pulses. At the impeller periphery, the pressure pulses milk liquid out of sludge. At the portion of the radial passage prior to the filter, pressure pulses evolve gases and degassed cavitation bubbles inactivate microbes. Degassing of the high energy forced periodic cavitation bubbles between the impellers removes the cushion of noncondensibles which would otherwise absorb energy on compression, therefore implosion becomes extremely violent and a barrage of high pressure pulses and ultraviolet light pulses inactivates microbes.Applications include field water purification, municipal and industrial wastewater degassing and sludge thickening, swimming pool filtration, effluent dewatering, wine and beverage degassing and clarification, fruit crushing, olive oil dewatering, produced brine and drilling mud processing, manure slurry dewatering and degassing, and recovery of solvents and fine suspended solids from fluid mixtures such as wastewater from machining operations.

Crude oil can be refined through a filtration media. Cavitation bubbles having localized areas of very high temperatures and pressures may be created thereby causing several physical and chemical phenomena, including thermal cracking of carbon-carbon bonds as the crude moves through the flux cartridge membrane. Heavy hydrocarbons are residues are thereby cracked into smaller lowering boiling molecules having a higher API gravity. Once the relatively smaller hydrocarbons pass through the flux cartridge membrane into the flux cartridge, the effluent can be routed to a second separator annulus. It should also be pointed out that lighter hydrocarbons formed can volatilize and special provisions may be needed to efficiently capture these gases.

A method for processing a fluidic mixture in a multi-stage hydrodynamic cavitation device is disclosed. The fluidic mixture is introduced to an inlet and passed through a flowpath having at least ten cavitation zones. The fluidic mixture is exposed to cavitation inducing features in each of the at least ten cavitation zones to induce cavitation bubbles, which bubbles are then collapsed between every two adjacent of the at least ten cavitation zones. The multi-stage hydrodynamic cavitation device for processing the fluidic mixture has a generally cylindrical housing with an inlet, an outlet, a flowpath therebetween, and a plurality of cavitation zones along the flowpath. Two or more of the cavitation zones along the flowpath comprise a disk multi-jet nozzle having a plurality of through channels disposed across the surface thereof, wherein each channel includes expansions and contractions of its cross-sectional area along its length.

The invention relates to an improved apparatus for the comminution of concretions in vivo by controlled, concentrated cavitation energy using two shock wave pulses with a specified time delay and pressure relationship, with the first shock wave pulse being used to induce a transient cavitation bubble cluster near the target concretion, and the second shock wave pulse to control and force the collapse of the cavitation bubble cluster towards the target concretion with concentrated energy disposition while avoiding injury to surrounding tissue. The invention contemplates the use of an improved combined electrohydraulic or electromagnetic and a piezoelectric annular array shock wave generator to produce improved stone comminution with reduced tissue injury in vivo.

A surgical device includes a probe, a transducer assembly operatively coupled to the probe for generating an ultrasonic resonant vibration therein, and a frequency generator operatively coupled to the transducer assembly for energizing the transducer component. A control component is operatively connected to the frequency generator for inducing the frequency generator to produce an alternating signal sequence including a first electrical excitation signal and a second electrical excitation signal, wherein the first electrical excitation signal has at least one first ultrasonic frequency and at least one first amplitude collectively selected to generate cavitation bubbles at a wound site to fragment damaged tissue and debride the wound site. The second electrical excitation signal has at least one second ultrasonic frequency and at least one second amplitude collectively selected to generate cavitation bubbles in a substantially reduced amount, thereby allowing for increased transmission of vibratory energy into the debrided tissues for enhancing healing.

A vortex reactor includes a reactor body having first and second ends, with one or more inlet ports coupled to the first end. The reactor is configured to form one or more vortices in a fluid passed into the reactor. The inlet port(s) may be positioned to advance a reactor fluid into the reactor body at an angle tangential to an inner surface of the reactor body, forming a vortex that advances toward the second end along the inner surface of the reactor body. A vortex induction mechanism can be disposed within the reactor to induce or augment a vortex within the reactor. The reactor includes an ultrasound-imparting device configured to generate cavitation bubbles in the reactor fluid. The fluid flow within the reactor concentrates the cavitation bubbles within the vortex, thereby providing beneficial physical and / or chemical effects, while protecting the reactor walls and other reactor components from cavitational erosion.

The invention relates to a device for degrading waste water organic matters by combined type hydraulic power cavitation. The device comprises a Venturi tube component and a sieve mesh plate component which are connected in series and communicated with each other, wherein the water inlet end of the Venturi tube component is connected with a high-pressure pump waste water device; and the water outlet end of the sieve mesh plate component is connected with a water outlet pipeline. According to the device, due to the adoption of the structure, ultra-high pressure and high temperature which are similar to the condition of 'wet air oxidation' are generated and accompanied with strong shock waves and jet flows at the moment of collapsing cavitation bubbles after cavitation by utilizing the hydraulic power cavitation principle, so that part of organic matters in waste water are decomposed into CO2, H2O and inorganic oxides to degrade chemical oxygen demands (COD) and biochemical oxygen demands (BOD). The device is suitable for the pretreatment of the high-concentration organic waste water which is insusceptible to biochemical degradation, and the pH value of the waste water is not limited.

The invention relates to the technical field of hydrodynamic cavitation, in particular to a cavitation reactor. The cavitation reactor comprises a power device, a hydrodynamic cavitator and a water tank, wherein a plurality of Venturi type through holes are formed in each cavitation plate on the hydrodynamic cavitator, that is, hole reaming structures are arranged at two ends of each through hole, accordingly, the sectional area of each flow channel becomes small when water flows into the through holes in the cavitation plates from cavitation pipes, the water velocity is increased, and the water flow pressure is reduced; when the water flow pressure is decreased under the saturated vapor pressure of water, cavitation happens, cavitation bubbles are formed, then, the cavitation bubbles flow out of the cavitation plates with the water flow, the water pressure rises, the cavitation bubbles break, shock wave and microjet are formed at the moment the cavitation bubbles break, and high temperature and high pressure are generated. Compared with an existing straight-hole cavitation plate, the cavitation effect is better, and the cavitation efficiency is higher; a plurality of cavitation plates are connected together stage by stage and uniformly distributed in the cavitation pipes, the multi-stage cavitation reactor is formed, the energy utilization rate is greatly increased, and the cavitation effect is improved.

Nanostructured materials and processes for the preparation of these nanostructured materials in high phase purities using cavitation is disclosed. The method preferably comprises mixing a metal containing solution with a precipitating agent and passing the mixture into a cavitation chamber. The chamber consists of a first element to produce cavitation bubbles, and a second element that creates a pressure zone sufficient to collapse the bubbles. The process is useful for the preparation of catalysts and materials for piezoelectrics and superconductors.

A device and method a provided for mixing and enhancing reaction between oil and a non-oil liquid by exploiting the formation, implosion and explosion of numerous cavitation bubbles within a cavitation device. Intense localized energy from the collapse of the cavitation bubbles subjects the mixture to intense heat and pressure, thereby accelerating reaction between the oil and non-oil liquid. In one embodiment, the non-oil liquid is an alcohol, and the cavitation device is used to enhance a transesterification reaction to convert the oil and alcohol into biodiesel in the presence of a catalyst.

This invention relates to a metal part and other surface modification method suitable for the machining industry in which shot peening is typically used to refine the surface of a metal part (to introduce compressive residual stresses, to enhance fatigue strength, to harden the workpiece) and for fields in which parts need be cleaned. According to the present invention, workpiece W is placed within a first vessel which is filled with a fluid. The first vessel is pressurized by controlling the flow rate of the fluid flowing in the first vessel from nozzle 4 distant from said workpiece on the surface and of the fluid flowing from first vessel. Thus, the collapsing impact force of cavitation bubbles is increased so that the machined part will have its surface strengthened and cleaned by applying a peening effect to the surface of the part with said impact force.

An apparatus for performing in-vivo sonoporation of a skin area and transdermal and / or intradermal delivery of a drug solution includes a container having an end adjacent the skin area and containing the drug solution. The container further includes an ultrasound horn having a tip submerged in the drug solution for applying ultrasound radiation to the drug solution. The ultrasound radiation has a frequency in the range of 15 KHz and 1 MHz and is applied at an intensity, for a period of time and at a distance from said skin area effective to generate cavitation bubbles. The cavitation bubbles collapse and transfer their energy into the skin area, thus causing the formation of pores in the skin area. The ultrasound radiation intensity and distance from the skin area are also effective in generating ultrasonic jets, which ultrasonic jets then drive the drug solution through the end adjacent the skin area and the formed pores into the skin.

The invention relates to an ultrasonic flotation method and a device and application thereof, which comprise the following steps: arranging an ultrasonic device in or outside a floatation tank body, starting the ultrasonic device when the floatation device carries out the mineral floatation, using ultrasonic waves to irradiate floatation pulp, providing a high-energy elastic mechanical wave to the pulp, initiating an ultrasonic cavitation effect, generating a large number of cavitation bubble particle flows which flow at high speed, and effectively washing the surfaces of the ore particles in the pulp to enable target ore particles to expose the fresh surfaces; at the same time, using ultrasonic energy to improve the activity of medicament in the pulp, quickening adsorption process of the medicament and the surfaces of the target ore particles to further improve the effects of breaking, restructuring and floating of mineralized bubbles in a pulp system, and thus realizing the optimization of flotation process.

The invention relates to a device and method for realizing laser cavitating cleaning micro-nano-particles on the surface of a material. The device comprises a water box and a loading table located in the water box. The water box is arranged on a three-dimensional movable working table. A laser cavitating device is installed above the water box. The laser caviating device and the three-dimensional movable working table are connected with a computer. A voltage sensor detecting device is installed on the material. The voltage sensor detecting device is connected with the computer through a data processing device. When laser beams and water produce a cavitation effect, cavitation bubbles are induced to be produced, high pressure shock waves and micro jet produced after cavitation bubbles collapse can produce actionof cleaningthe micro-nano-particles on the surface of the material on a workpiece; and meanwhile, a pressure gradient is formed on the surfaces of the cavitation bubbles, the pressure gradient can drive the cavitation bubbles to move a target material, so that pressure changes are produced on the surface of the material. According to the device for realizing laser cavitating cleaning the micro-nano-particles on the surface of the material, the pressure changes of the surface the workpiece are used as characteristic parameters to judge the effect of laser cavitating cleaning the micro-nano-particles on the surface of the material, so that the measurement result is more convenient and accurate.

A supercavitating water-entry projectile having empennage on the aft end which provides both aerodynamic and hydrodynamic stability and a supercavitating nose section is provided. A representative projectile is a subcaliber munition adapted for use in a 25 mm weapon using a sabot currently in use with the M919 round. The projectile has circumferential grooves around its center section to match these sabots. A key feature in the invention is the size and shape of the nose section. The projectile has a novel high strength extended blunt nose section followed by a truncated conical section which angles towards the body of the projectile in the range of five degrees. During underwater trajectory, the entire projectile is contained within the cavitation bubble formed by the blunt nose tip. The projectile's aft empennage, which provides both aerodynamic and hydrodynamic stability, fits within the bore of the weapon.

A centrifugal pump adapted to excite a high-intensity sound wave in a fluid feedstock is disclosed. The impeller and stator of the pump are provided with multiple apertures sized and spaced to produce a sound wave of an intensity greater than one megawatt per square meter in the fluid. The sound wave forms cavitation bubbles in the fluid, and the static pressure in the pump combines with the compression cycle of the sound wave to collapse the bubbles at a rate sufficient to cause exothermic reactions in the fluid. The sonic reactor can be configured for use to produce thermal energy, oil refining, catalyst production, water desalination and other uses.

The invention discloses an ultrasonic cavitation assistant jet polishing system which is characterized by comprising an ultrasonic transducer and a shell; the shell is internally provided with a containing cavity with an opening formed in the upper end; an ultrasonic transducer sealing cover is arranged on an opening formed in the upper end of the containing cavity in a sealing manner; the side surface of the shell is provided with a polishing solution supply hole; the lower side of the shell is provided with a jet nozzle; and the polishing solution supply hole and the jet nozzle communicateswith the containing cavity. The invention further provides an ultrasonic cavitation assistant jet polishing method. The ultrasonic cavitation assistant jet polishing system can be installed on a numerical control machine tool spindle box or an industrial robot mechanical arm, and the ultrasonic transducer is utilized to enable a polishing solution to generate high-frequency vibration and produce cavitation bubbles, and the high-pressure and high-speed polishing solution is sprayed to the surface of a workpiece, so that the material removal efficiency of an abrasive water jet is improved. The ultrasonic cavitation assistant jet polishing system and method provided by the invention can be suitable for surface type finishing of a super-smooth surface and is also suitable for surface processing and manufacturing of a microscopic special morphology.

A liquid treatment apparatus and a liquid treatment method are provided. The liquid treatment apparatus includes a nozzle configured to cause cavitation bubbles to be generated in liquid to be treated, and a discharger which generates discharge plasma in a region where the cavitation bubbles are generated. The liquid treatment method includes causing the cavitation bubbles to be generated in the liquid to be treated, and generating discharge plasma in the region where the cavitation bubbles are generated.

A system and method for performing laser induced optical breakdown (LIOB) in corneal tissue of an eye requires calculating a pattern of focal spots. LIOB is then induced at a first focal spot, and is continued at a plurality of interim focal spots within a time period τ. Each focal spot has a diameter “d1” and generates a temporal cavitation bubble of diameter “d2”. It then collapses within time “τ” to a substantially stationary diameter “d3”, with (d1≦d3≦d2). Importantly, each focal spot is located more than “d2” from every other interim focal spot within the time period of “τ”. At the time “τ”, a second focal spot in the pattern can be generated at a distance “d3” from the first focal spot. This process is then continued with another plurality of interim focal spots being generated within another time period “τ”.

The invention discloses an initial cavitation threshold distribution rebuilding method based on ultrasonic active cavitation imaging. The method comprises the steps of: firstly, emitting a synchronizing signal to a cavitation power source and a full-digitalized ultrasonic imaging device by a signal generator; stimulating a medium through continuous variable power to generate the cavitation by the power source; simultaneously emitting a plane wave and receiving a cavitation echo signal by the full-digitalized ultrasonic imaging device; achieving a cavitation bubble distribution imaging sequence with high resolution and high signal-to-noise ratio through the echo signal by synthetic aperture time delay, correlation coefficient adaptive beam synthesis and interframe decorrelation SSD (steady-state distribution); carrying out region segmentation and extracting a sub-area power intensity curve (PIC) from a sequence image; setting an intensity threshold in the PIC; taking the power corresponding to the intensity threshold as a cavitation initial threshold; and rebuilding the initial cavitation threshold space distribution by pseudo color coding after the initial threshold of each sub-area is obtained. By adopting the method disclosed by the invention, the intuitive image analysis is provided for a cavitation bubble distribution state under the effects under different powers and different parameters; and the foundation is provided for the cavitation analysis of different mediums.

The invention provides a resistance reduction-propulsion integrated structure of a manually-ventilated supercavitating torpedo. A traditional torpedo structure is changed, a cavitation bubble generator on the head portion of the traditional structure is omitted, and the head portion of the torpedo is made to be a plane; an engine jet pipe located on the tail portion of the torpedo is omitted, and four small engine jet pipes are arranged at the front end of the torpedo and evenly distributed in the upper direction, the lower direction, the left direction and the right direction; the included angle between the central axis of each jet pipe and the central axis of the torpedo is 10-15 degrees; by the adoption of the structure, the situation that the movement form is instable due to the fact that the front portion and the rear portion of the torpedo bear thrust at the same time is avoided, and meanwhile uniform thrust can be provided. The resistance reduction-propulsion integrated structure of the manually-ventilated supercavitating torpedo can be applied to low-speed movement and can also achieve high-speed movement; during low-speed movement, natural cavitation bubbles cannot be formed on the plane of the front portion of the torpedo, the engine jet pipes inject air so that a ventilation cavitation bubble can be formed nearby, the resistance of the portion covered with the cavitation bubble is reduced, the resistance reduction effect is achieved, and a propulsion system and a resistance reduction system of the torpedo are combined.

The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for the directed formation of a re-entrant micro-jet formed upon the collapse of a working cavitation bubble formed proximate to a work surface. A target bubble, formed between the work surface and the working cavitation bubble, is utilized to direct the re-entrant micro-jet to the work surface.