Patent ID: 7699519
Filing Date: 2010-04-20
Classification: B01D

Abstract:
1. An apparatus for extracting petroleum distillate products from alcohol consisting of a reaction core having a base, a bottom portion and a top portion, where the top portion comprises the top 50% of the reaction core and the bottom portion comprises the bottom 50% of the reaction core, with the reaction core further having an impeller connected to an impeller shaft that is operably connected to a high speed motor with the impeller shaft extending up to the length of said reaction core top portion, a bottom stirring device located on said base of said reaction core that creates a vortex of opposite direction that that created by said high speed motor and impeller, a collection tank operably connected to said top portion of said reaction core and a vacuum pump that is operably connect to said collection tank such that vacuum supplied by said vacuum pump results in fluid from the reaction core being drawn into and deposited into said collection tank, an air infusion port in said bottom portion of said reaction core that is operably connected to a pneumatic pump, a shear accelerator in said bottom portion of said reaction core, comprising an inverted funnel with a narrow neck so that air supplied by said pneumatic pump via said air infusion port is supplied to the wide opening of the funnel and up to the top portion of the reaction core via said narrow neck of said shear accelerator and a drain at the base of said reaction core operably connected to a storage tank.