US Patent Issued to NESTE on July 29 for "Fluid mixer and a method for mixing fluids" (Finnish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,508, issued on July 29, was assigned to NESTE OYJ (Espoo, Finland).

"Fluid mixer and a method for mixing fluids" was invented by Sami Toppinen (Porvoo, Finland), Johanna Vaittinen (Porvoo, Finland) and Ari Vepsalainen (Porvoo, Finland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fluid mixer for a reactor of a hydrocarbon processing plant includes a substantially cylindrical mixing chamber, at least one first inlet for conducting first fluid to the mixing chamber from above the mixing chamber and along a side wall of the mixing chamber to produce a spiral stream in the mixing chamber, at least one second inlet for conducting second fluid tangenti...