METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAKING HYBRID CRUDE OILS AND FUELS

摘要

A simplified process is provided for creating hybrid crude oils and hybrid crude fractions with characteristics superior to the original. The process uniquely combines gases with crude oil or crude fractions in an effervescent turbulent manner at low temperatures and pressures and without the further aid of catalysts. The process breaks large chain hydrocarbons into smaller chain hydrocarbons, molecularly combines carbon, hydrogen, and/or hydrocarbon molecules from the gases with and into hydrocarbon molecules of the crude or crude fraction, and separates contaminants and impurities.

主权项

1. An apparatus for breaking large chain hydrocarbon molecules found in crude oil and crude fractions into smaller chain hydrocarbon molecules, and for separating contaminants and impurities therefrom, comprising:
a self-contained network of raw material inflow and product outflow for combining one or more gases with a crude oil or crude fraction feedstock in a turbulent manner at low temperatures and pressures to create numerous localized high energy collisions of gas molecules with liquid hydrocarbon molecules and ongoing collisions of these molecules within a sustained turbulent environment; a processing vessel having therein a plurality of nozzles having selected nozzle placements and nozzle alignments that create said collisions by turbulently combining said gases with said crude oil or crude fraction feedstock to force direct high energy collisions of said gas molecules with said liquid hydrocarbon molecules, and to sustain an ongoing turbulent interaction of said gas and said liquid hydrocarbon molecules as said gas molecules rise through said liquid hydrocarbon molecules; wherein a gaseous off-flow is generated from a top of a liquid that rises to a top of said vessel, said gaseous off-flow escaping via one or more outlets located at said vessel top; a vacuum for drawing said gaseous off-flow through said outlets and into and through one or more heat exchangers in which said gases are cooled; wherein as the gases cool, depositing portions thereof that condense to liquids into a product tank containing an end product; wherein gases that do not condense in said cooling step a drawn out of the top of the product tank, channeled back into a first stage of said processing vessel, and combined with said liquid crude oil or crude fraction; and wherein those liquid hydrocarbon molecules that are not effectively broken down, contaminates, and impurities that settle to a bottom of said processing tank are periodically removed from said processing tank.