US Patent Issued to Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy on March 24 for "Annular centrifugal extractor with solid separation part to separate solid particles present in solvent extraction fluid and a process for the same" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,923, issued on March 24, was assigned to Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy (Mumbai, India).

"Annular centrifugal extractor with solid separation part to separate solid particles present in solvent extraction fluid and a process for the same" was invented by M. Balamurugan (Kalpakkam, India), N. K. Pandey (Ranchi, India), Shekhar Kumar (Kalpakkam, India) and J. B. Joshi (Mumbai, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to an annular centrifugal extractor with Solid Separation Part to Separate Solid Particles Present in Solvent Extraction Fluid. In order to remove solid particles from the solution, a solid sep...