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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 23, 2016
Filed:
May. 08, 2013
Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc., Blacksburg, VA (US);
Roe-Hoan Yoon, Blacksburg, VA (US);
Gerald Luttrell, Blacksburg, VA (US);
Saad Ragab, Blacksburg, VA (US);
Demetri Telionis, Blacksburg, VA (US);
Abdel-Halim Said, Zagazig, EG;
Sanja Miskovic, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Aaron Noble, Lenoir City, TN (US);
Yihong Yang, Salt Lake City, UT (US);
Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc., Blacksburg, VA (US);
Abstract
A rotor for flotation machines or flotation cells of flotation machines includes blades that are configured to provide improved bubble flow and bubble generation performance while also reducing the power requirements for rotating the rotor to generate bubble flow within a tank of a flotation cell used to generate froth. Embodiments of the rotor may also be configured to be smaller than conventional rotor designs, which may help reduce the costs of manufacturing the rotor or flotation machines using such embodiments of the rotor.