US 11,718,797 B2
Device for treatment of a liquid
Jose Miguel Delgado Castillo, Vienna (AT); Anibal Luis Veneciano Rivera, Vienna (AT); Ruediger Uwe Nuerk, Vienna (AT); and Fedor Chernikov, Moscow (RU)
Filed by Earle Refining LLC, Wall, NJ (US)
Filed on Jun. 25, 2018, as Appl. No. 16/17,651.
Application 16/017,651 is a division of application No. 13/640,932, granted, now 10,053,635, previously published as PCT/AT2011/000184, filed on Apr. 14, 2011.
Claims priority of application No. 596/2010 (AT), filed on Apr. 14, 2010; and application No. 597/2010 (AT), filed on Apr. 14, 2010.
Prior Publication US 2018/0355260 A1, Dec. 13, 2018
Int. Cl. B01J 19/10 (2006.01); B01J 19/18 (2006.01); C10G 15/08 (2006.01); C10G 31/06 (2006.01); C02F 1/36 (2023.01)
CPC C10G 15/08 (2013.01) [B01J 19/10 (2013.01); B01J 19/1806 (2013.01); B01J 19/1881 (2013.01); C10G 31/06 (2013.01); B01J 2219/00162 (2013.01); B01J 2219/00164 (2013.01); C02F 1/36 (2013.01); C10G 2300/1033 (2013.01); C10G 2300/805 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A liquid treatment device for increasing the portion of low-boiling fractions in a mineral oil comprising:
a pressure wave generator for generating pressure waves having a first frequency, said pressure wave generator being arranged to subject the mineral oil to said pressure waves in a region of application, wherein the first frequency is between 2 kHz and 20 kHz;
a downstream pipe arranged immediately following said region of application,
a recirculation pipe connected downstream from the pressure wave generator,
two throttle valves for exciting said recirculation pipe and mineral oil flowing through the recirculation pipe to oscillations of a second frequency, wherein the second frequency is the resonance frequency of the liquid treatment device, and wherein the second frequency is higher than the first frequency;
wherein the pressure wave generator comprising a first disc with a ring-shaped wall and a second disc, the ring-shaped wall and the second disc each having a plurality of openings spaced apart at even distances from each other;
wherein the distance between the openings of the ring-shaped wall is configured to generate pressure waves that destabilize the chemical bonds between neighboring carbon atoms in molecules contained in the mineral oil; and
wherein the distance between the openings of the second disc are configured to generate pressure waves that destabilize the chemical bonds between carbon atoms and hydrogen atoms in molecules contained in the mineral oil.