Patent ID: 7713338

Claim:
A separating apparatus for separating liquids having different component contents from a mixed liquid the separating apparatus comprising: an atomizing device for ultrasonically vibrating the mixed liquid and atomizing the mixed liquid into atomized fine particles, thereby obtaining a mixed fluid of the atomized fine particles and air; a collecting device for separating the air from the atomized mixed fluid obtained in the atomizing device and collecting an atomized component; and an outside thermal energy supplying device for supplying a thermal energy of outside air to a surface of the mixed liquid to be atomized by the ultrasonic vibration by exchanging heat between the outside air and the air internally circulated via the atomizing device, and the surface of the mixed liquid to which the thermal energy of the outside air is supplied by the outside thermal energy supplying device is ultrasonically vibrated to atomize the mixed liquid, wherein the mixed liquid is atomized into the atomized fine particles to obtain the atomized mixed fluid in the atomizing device, and the atomized fine particles are separated in the collecting device from the mixed fluid into liquids having different component contents.