METHOD FOR CHANGING THE QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE COMPOSITION OF A MIXTURE OF LIQUID HYDROCARBONS BASED ON THE EFFECTS OF CAVITATION

摘要

The proposed method comprises passing the hydrodynamic flow of liquid hydrocarbons through a flow-through passage accommodating a baffle body providing for a local constriction of the flow; establishing the local flow constriction on at least one portion of the flow-through passage whose crosssectional profile area is so selected as to maintain such a velocity of the flow on the portion of the passage that promotes the development of a hydrodynamic cavitation field past the baffle body having the degree of cavitation of at least one; processing the flow of a mixture of liquid hydrocarbons in the hydrodynamic cavitation field to initiate chemical transformations of liquid hydrocarbons resulting in a change in the qualitative and quantitative composition of the mixture of liquid hydrocarbons.