Apparatus and method for providing pulsed fluids

摘要

There is provided a method and apparatus for supplying pulsed fluids to pressure vessels which comprises: at least one reservoir for the fluid to be pulsed; valved conduits connecting the reservoir to a pump; a conduit with control valves from the pump to one or more ballast tanks with the control valves able to sequentially or intermittantly direct a flow of fluid into each of the ballast tanks; conduits from each of the ballast tanks to a control valve and injection valve which injects fluid from the conduits from each of the ballast tanks into a high pressure processing vessel where materials to be contacted with the pulsed fluid are contacted with the fluid. For recycling the processing fluid, a conduit from the high pressure processing vessel can be connected to a separator vessel, secondary processing vessel or storage vessel. Conduits can be provided from the separator vessel, secondary processing vessel or storage vessel whereby the processing fluid can be returned to the reservoir for reuse in the process or conducted elsewhere for other purposes.