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| A common problem encountered in transport vessels is the inadequate continuous mixing in liquid storage tanks that leads to costly sediment settling and buildup on the bottom of the tanks. The RADIAL EDUCTOR™ and RADIAL EDUCTOR™ II (Stainless Steel) when incorporated with the tank manifold will provide superior mixing and suspending of solids while insuring product uniformity. Uniform consistency and rapid volume turnover in mixing and storage tanks are essential in optimizing product quality and the restoring of sediments from tank bottoms. |
| The RADIAL EDUCTOR™ generates strong turbulence in a submerged environment that provides the energy distribution to keep tanks uniformly mixed and solids suspended without moving parts. The horse power ratio to mixed volume is extremely efficient. |
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| Lobestar® Mixing Nozzles | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Effective blending and mixing are an essential part of everyday operations in most process industries. In these applications the requirement may vary but the ultimate achievement is, generally, to have a homogenous product. The Vortex Mixing Nozzle is effective in performing more than one function with superb capability; suspending solids in a liquid, blending, emulsifying liquids, dissolving polymers, powders and granular materials in a liquid environment... | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lobestar® Mixing Eductors | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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The term "Eductor" describes a jet pump without moving parts and utilizes fluid in motion to produce low pressure. Motive power is provided by a centrifugal or gear pump. The pressurized fluid stream is converted from pressure-energy to high velocity as the fluid enters a unique nozzle configuration, known as the LOBESTAR® NOZZLE. The issuing high velocity jet stream produces a strong suction in the mixing chamber of the LOBESTAR® MIXING EDUCTOR, causing a powder, granular material or a secondary fluid to be drawn through a suction port into the mixing chamber of the LOBESTAR® MIXING EDUCTOR... | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lobestar® Mixing Eductors (Alternate Materials for Wear, Corrosion Resistance and Sanitary Applications) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Effective blending and mixing are an essential part of everyday operations in most industrial process industries. Specific application requirements may vary but the ultimate achievement is to have a homogenous product. The LOBESTAR® Mixing Eductor is effective in speed mixing most powders and granular materials without the inherent problem of fisheyes or microgels. LOBESTAR® MIXING EDUCTORS are available in special materials, such as KYNAR® and UHMW. KYNAR® is one of the most stable commercial resins. KYNAR® resists strong acids, solvents and reducing agents... | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Radial Eductor™ (Tank Eductors) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Radial Eductor is a high volume EDUCTOR using the LOBESTAR® power jet to produce high turbulence. A centrifugal pump is used to pressurize the Radial Eductor. Static pressure is converted to high velocity as the slurry passes through the jet nozzle orifice. The high velocity causes a region of low pressure. The motive flow pumped through the jet nozzle draws in three times the volume pumped. Example: The flow rate of an RE-2 (2") Model has a 7/8" nozzle orifice is 116 gpm @ 40 psi. The total mixed fluid is 464 gpm. The motive flow rate of the jet nozzle draws three times it’s volume through the inductors. This interaction prevents solids from settling at the bottom and the corners of the tank... | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Radial Eductor™ II (Tank Eductor -316 Stainless Steel for Sanitary and Corrosion Resistant Applications) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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The RADIAL EDUCTOR™ II is an innovative, patented tank mixer that offers versatility and flexibility in many liquid applications. The RADIAL EDUCTOR™ II provides a simple method in uniformly mixing, circulating and suspending tank volumes without "Dead-spots". The mixer is an efficient means of energy conservation. The volume output is four times the motive fluid input. The Radial Eductor II is fabricated from 316 Stainless Steel. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lobestar® shear mixers | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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The LOBESTAR® shear mixer is a combination of two major components that are essential in providing rapid hydration, uniform dispersion and fast delivery. The two components that make up the LOBESTAR® shear mixer are; the RADIAL PREMIXER and the LOBESTAR® MIXING EDUCTOR. This combination of devices produce turbulent mixing and dynamic shear. The results are rapid hydration, uniform dispersion and fast delivery. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Lobestar® shear mixers (Dual Suction) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Many mixing and blending processes require a dual suction device. The Dual Suction LOBESTAR® shear mixer efficiently meets the demanding requirements for getting the most potential from a chemical product. The LOBESTAR® shear mixer is a combination of two major components that are essential in providing rapid hydration, uniform dispersion and fast delivery, the RADIAL PREMIXER and the LOBESTAR® MIXING EDUCTOR. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Radial Premixer (Annular Jet Pumps) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Pressurized fluid enters the prewetting chamber of the RADIAL PREMIXER tangentially and radiates outwardly to the wall of the mixing chamber. Powdered materials are introduced through a chemical hopper and are drawn into the eye of a strong vortex. As the particles are absorbed into the spinning fluid, the centrifugal force moves the mixture outward providing distance between particles as the “wetting-out” process develops. The particle spreading caused by the centrifugal action completely eliminates particle adhesion or clumping associated with conventional mixing devices... | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Radial Premixer II (Annular Jet Pump-316 Stainless Steel) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Radial Premixer II is an Annular Jet Pump fabricated from 316 Stainless Steel, meeting all sanitary application requirements. The gap between the accelerator and internal wall is adjustable to accommodate variation in fluid viscosities and flow rates. The particle spreading caused by the centrifugal action completely eliminates particle adhesion or clumping associated with conventional mixing devices... | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vortex Mixing Head (Multi-Density Speed Mixer) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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The VORTEX MIXING HEAD is a mixing device designed for continuous diluting and mixing large volumes of drilling fluid to the desired fluid density while drilling. Large volume diluting and mixing "on-the-fly" simultaneously has shown significant savings in time and space in deepwater drilling. Drilling fluids are generally prepared at an onshore drilling fluids mixing plant before shipment to a offshore rig site. The fluid density is typically in the 16.0 - 17.0 lbs/gal ranged and diluted by a ratio of 2:1 or 3:1 while drilling... |
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| Spintop™ Hydrocyclone (Cyclone Separator - Fluid Applications) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Hydrocyclones are density separators that convert pressure energy into rotational momentum. The rotational momentum provides the centrifugal force to separate solids from a primary liquid. The Spintop™ Hydrocyclone has four outstanding features that are unique to conventional Hydrocyclone. (1) Involuted feed, (2) a Bell shaped Vortex Finder, (3) a Solid Center Core and (4) a Parabolic shaped body... |
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| Surge Tanks, P-Tanks and Silos | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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The VORTEX SURGE TANKS with optional accessories offer many selections in tank capacities and configurations to accommodate confined spaces, existing pipe arrangement and equipment location. ASME code and non-code tanks and vessels are available with various tank head and cone section designs for special applications... | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vortex Booster Elbow (Booster Pump) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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The Vortex Booster Elbow is used to accelerate fluid velocities in pipe, evacuating and cleaning plugged pipe and for dislodging and removing sludge and sediment from a tank floor. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| One-Step Railcar Unloader | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Chemical process plants need a safe and dust-free method for unloading soluble powders, flakes and granular materials from railcars. Generally, chemical process plants use a complex, multiple-step gravity or pneumatic system to convey dry materials from railcars to storage bins. The dry material products will then require another process to convert the powder or granular material into a usable slurry. Gravity and pneumatic systems are inefficient in energy consumption and are environmentally unsafe because of the inherent possibility of spillage and dust generation. The LOBESTAR® shear mixer is an efficient device that will unload, convert and dissolve a powder into a concentrated slurry, and convey the slurry from a railcar to an active process system or storage tank. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
