APPARATUS FOR PREPARING EMULSION FUEL, EMULSIFIER, MIXING/EMULSIFYING UNIT, AND METHOD FOR PREPARING EMULSION FUEL

摘要

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an emulsifier in which emulsion fuel having stability is efficiently prepared and which has a compact shape and to provide a mixing/emulsifying unit, and an apparatus and a method for the preparing emulsion fuel. SOLUTION: The emulsifier is characterized in that a liquid mixture in which at the least water is mixed with petroleum or animal or vegetable oil is jetted toward the inside of each of a plurality of emulsification chambers and emulsified. The emulsifier is provided with: the plurality of emulsification chambers which are connected successively to one another and the adjacent ones of which communicate with each other; and collision means against each of which the jetted liquid mixture is made to collide so that the liquid mixture is made to collide successively at least in any of the plurality of emulsification chambers. The apparatus for preparing the emulsion fuel is constituted so that an injection chamber, a preliminary mixer for preparing a preliminary liquid mixture, the emulsifier for preparing the emulsion fuel and a fuel tank communicate successively with one another by a one-way liquid feeding circuit. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT