Patent ID: 9528050
Filing Date: 2016-12-27
CPC Classification: C10G

Claim Text:
1. A method of treating a petroleum product of crude oil, or highly viscous stable oil emulsions for reduction of viscosity, cleaning and separation of emulsions, comprising: delivering said petroleum product to an input storage device of a swirling hydro-cavitational module having a vortex chamber; subjecting said product to electro-hydrodynamic impacts in a discharge chamber in said input storage device; injecting said product in a strongly twisted swirling stream through said vortex chamber of said hydro-cavitational module wherein said stream consists of both a central flow and a peripheral flow; agitating said swirling stream with a high radial gradient of pressure in a central zone in said vortex chamber; impacting said central flow and said peripheral flow with electro-hydrodynamic shocks and acoustic oscillations of sonic and ultrasonic frequencies while a counter-propagation of longitudinal oscillations being created in said central flow and said peripheral flow in said vortex chamber while said stream moves from input to output of said vortex chamber; decelerating both said central flow and said peripheral flow through zones of de-turbulizers provided in said vortex chamber; retrieving thus treated product from said vortex chamber from output devices of said vortex chamber after passing through said de-turbulizers; and re-circulating a portion of said thus treated product to said input storage device to facilitate variations of timing of treating said product in separating said central flow and said peripheral flow according to various different viscosities and densities.