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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 11, 2024
Filed:
Jun. 04, 2022
Vortex Pipe Systems Llc, Austin, TX (US);
Paul Wayne Schmidt, Carlton, OR (US);
Avijit Ghosh, Austin, TX (US);
Vortex Pipe Systems LLC, Austin, TX (US);
Abstract
Material flow amplifiers overcome drawbacks associated with known adverse flow conditions (e.g., surface erosion and head losses) that arise from flow of certain types of materials (e.g., fluids, slurries, particulates, flowable aggregate, and the like) through a material flow conduit. Such material flow amplifiers provide for flow of flowable material within a flow passage of a material flow conduit (e.g., a portion of a pipeline, tubing or the like) to have a cyclonic flow (i.e., vortex or swirling) profile. Advantageously, the cyclonic flow profile centralizes flow toward the central portion of the flow passage, thereby reducing magnitude of laminar flow. Such cyclonic flow profile provides a variety of other advantages as compared to a parabolic flow profile (e.g., increased flow rate, reduce inner pipeline wear, more uniform inner pipe wear, reduction in energy consumption, reduced or eliminated slugging and the like).