Patent ID: 9272234
Filing Date: 2016-03-01
CPC Classification: B01D,B06B,C12M

Claim Text:
1. An acoustophoresis device for continuously separating a second fluid or a particulate from a host fluid, comprising: one or more device inlets at a first end of the device, the first end having a first diameter for receiving fluid flow; a contoured wall downstream of the inlet that narrows the fluid flow to a second diameter of a connecting duct; a flow chamber downstream of the connecting duct, the flow chamber having: a first device outlet located at the first end of the device and separated from the device inlet by a longitudinal sidewall; and a second device outlet located at a second end of the device downstream of the flow chamber outlet; wherein the second fluid or particulate is continuously trapped in the standing wave, then agglomerates, aggregates, clumps, or coalesces into larger particles, and eventually rises or settles out of the host fluid due to buoyancy or gravity forces, and exits the flow chamber.