Avast Marine biopellet mixing nozzle improves fluidizing of solid carbon dosing media

By on Feb 27, 2012

A common complaint of biopellets used in mixing reactors is the lack of uniform mixing, clumping and channeling that can occur when biopellets sometimes stick together. Like the eductor-modified biopellet reactors, the Avast Marine biopellet mixing nozzle is a handy accessory that addresses some of these issues and more. The $16 biopellet mixing nozzle is a conically shaped shower head of sorts which helps keep biopellets aggressively churned and it simply slip-fits onto the 1/2 inch tubing that feeds the Avast Marine biopellets reactors.

Additionally the Avast Marine biopellet mixing nozzle has an outlet fine enough to prevent biopellets from back-siphoning out of the reactor in the event of a power interruption. If you have a “standard” biopellet reactor with the first-generation fluidizing plates, you may consider accessorizing it with this handy nozzle, a video of which is embeded past the jump. [Avast Marine]

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  • Justin Farabaugh

    $16 ?
    Really?

  • XD_1

    It does sound like it’s a little much for what it is, but I’ll cut them plenty of slack because they do have the most reasonable prices around.

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/J6JAVX3VITJC4AJAP4WY7QXGQ4 richard

    It is custom made from solid PVC on a CNC router.  This is not off the shelf at Home Depot, it’s a quality US made product.

  • http://www.facebook.com/avast.marine Avast Marine

    cnc lathe, but yeah :-)   It is actually a 2″ diameter high tolerance part and the above picture is very nice but doesn’t show the scale very well.

  • bvoss57

    Like lots of stuff from these guys, it is simple, novel, and works really well.