Patent ID: 8066424

Claim:
A mixing device, comprising a flow channel and a plurality of mixer slices being arranged in the flow channel, for creating leading edge eddies in a fluid flowing through the flow channel in a main direction of flow, whereby said mixer slices are arranged in individual mixer slices rows along row axes running essentially across the main direction of flow, and the mixer slices of each individual mixer slices row are angled in the same direction with respect to the main direction of flow and are situated partially overlapping in relation to the main direction of flow; wherein the individual mixer slices rows are arranged side by side in a common flow channel section based on the main direction of flow, whose lengths correspond to the maximum longitudinal dimension of the largest mixer plate row, whereby the mixer slices of neighboring individual mixer slices rows are angled contrary to each other in a positive angle of attack (+α) and in a negative angle of attack (−α) with respect to the main direction of flow, and whereby the row axes of the same neighboring individual mixer slices rows are further angled contrary to each other in a positive angle of alignment (+β) and in a negative angle of alignment (−β) with respect to the main direction of flow, wherein the alignment angle (β) is understood to be the angle between a row axis of an individual mixer slices row and the main direction of flow.