A device to reduce surface tension of a fluid emulsion having low gravity solids (LGS) in the range of about 2 to 20 microns to allow mechanical removal of the LGS from the fluid, comprising:
- high pressure tubing to receive the emulsion;
- the high pressure tubing splitting to into at least two separate piping streams, wherein the emulsion is separated into at least two streams;
- high pressure nozzles at a terminus of each of the at least two separate piping streams;
- a device to apply pressure to the emulsion streams within the at least two separate piping streams to provide an emulsion speed in the range of about 10 ft/sec to 200 ft/sec or at a force in a range of about 10 to 100 PSI of the emulsion while exiting the high pressure nozzle;
- the high pressure nozzles configured to collide the exiting emulsion streams from the high pressure nozzle within a pressure drop chamber having a pressure drop in a range of about 5% to 50% of a back pressure of the high pressure nozzles;
- wherein a cavitation effect is realized from a collision force of the high pressure emulsion streams within the pressure drop chamber having enough force to relax the emulsion which holds the fluid and LGS together, whereby access for removal of the LGS by mechanical means is allowed.