Patent ID: 8360631

Claim:
A static mixer comprising: a plurality of wall elements, the wall elements being shaped and configured such that they define an internal passage, when placed in a side-by-side arrangement, said passage defining an inlet, an outlet and a flow path extending from the inlet, downstream towards the outlet; and a plurality of mixer elements, each attachable to the inside of one of the walling wall elements to protrude into the passage, each mixer element defining at least one leading surface facing towards the inlet of the passage and at least one trailing surface facing towards the outlet of the passage, each of the leading and trailing surfaces having a root where it meets the inside of the wall element to which it is attached and an apex, opposite from its root; wherein the leading surface and the trailing surface intersect and are oriented at an angle greater than zero degrees relative to each other; wherein each apex is spaced from adjacent mixer elements and from adjacent wall elements.