Patent ID: 8235577
Filing Date: 2012-08-07
Classification: B01J,B05B,Y10T

Abstract:
1. A particulate material coating apparatus comprising: a vessel having a top and a bottom, the vessel adapted to contain the particulate material; a vertically extending conduit having an inlet in the vessel and an outlet outside of the vessel; a first fluid inlet in the bottom of the vessel, the first fluid inlet directed toward the inlet of the vertically extending conduit wherein a flow of a first fluid introduced by the first fluid inlet produces a flow of at least some of the particulate material and the first fluid through the vertically extending conduit; a second fluid inlet in the bottom of the vessel, the second fluid inlet adapted to introduce a second fluid to the flow of fluid introduced by the first fluid inlet, the second fluid adapted to adhere to the surface of at least some of the particulate material; and a fluid outlet from the vessel.