AERATION UNIT Russian patent published in 2011 - IPC B03D1/14 

FIELD: process engineering.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to dressing of minerals, particularly, to dressing equipment and may be used for concentration of ore and industrial ferrous and non-ferrous products in fluid medium. Proposed unit comprises drive shaft, working branch pipes with inlets and outlets. Note here that axes of said branch pipes are out of parallel with that of drive shaft to intersect therewith. It comprises also casing of said branch pipes secured to drive shaft lower part and dispersion elements arranged on said casing of branch pipes. Besides it comprises stator arranged with clearance relative to said casing of branch pipes and to faces of branch pipes outlets, distribution chamber arranged in aforesaid casing of branch pipes, and circulation pipe with diameter exceeding that of drive shaft and arranged aligned with drive shaft and gapped therewith.

EFFECT: higher efficiency, reduced power consumption.

16 cl, 25 dwg