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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 26, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 01, 2018
Hydro Dynamics, Inc., Rome, GA (US);
Daniel A. Armstead, White, GA (US);
Douglas G. Mancosky, White, GA (US);
Hydro Dynamics, Inc., Rome, GA (US);
Abstract
A method of hydrating a dry powdered viscosifier such as a powdered polymer is disclosed. The method includes mixing the powdered viscosifier with a solvent such as water to form a mixture; moving the mixture through a cavitation zone; inducing energetic shock waves and pressure fluctuations in the mixture by mechanically inducing cavitation events within the mixture, the shock waves and pressure fluctuations untangling, separating, and straightening polymer molecule chains and distributing the chains throughout the mixture, and extracting the resulting hydrated viscosifier from the cavitation zone.