Patent ID: 7927552
Filing Date: 2011-04-19
Classification: B01F

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for mixing fluids, comprising: channels through which fluids flow, wherein the fluids begin flowing at an end of each of the channels; one or more connections of the channels; a discharge channel connected to the one or more connections, wherein the fluids from the ends of the channels flow toward an end of the discharge channel at which the fluids stop flowing; at least two electrodes, wherein one of the at least two electrodes is disposed at the end of the discharge channel, and another of the at least two electrodes is disposed at the end of one of the channels; more than one recess formed in a given side of at least one of the channels; and a power supply which supplies an alternating current power with a frequency equal to or less than a resonant frequency of a mixing pattern cycle of the fluid in the channels to the at least two electrodes, wherein electrokinetic instability is formed in the fluids by the alternating current power.