摘要 |
An apparatus and method for dispersing a particulate solid material in a liquid. The apparatus includes a vertically mounted wetted wall funnel having a throat of reduced cross-section at the bottom, a solids container, solids conduit means communicating the solids container and the wetted wall funnel, means for flowing liquid over the interior surface of the wetted wall funnel, liquid conduit means attached to and communicating with the throat of the wetted wall funnel for flowing liquid past the throat of the funnel, and a pump for inducing a vacuum in the liquid conduit means at the throat of the funnel. The particulate solid material is distributed onto the interior surface of the wetted wall funnel and the solids-liquid mixture withdrawn from the funnel and admixed into the liquid flowing past the throat of the funnel.
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