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US 5,824,203 AGranted
Method and means for changing characteristics of substances
AssigneeSGI International, Inc.
InventorJohn L. Remo
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Abstract
A method and means for changing the characteristics of a substance, particularly a viscous substance, involves passing the substance into a path, passing a solvent for that substance into the path, and subjecting the substance and the solvent to a pulsating electric field in the frequency range of 0.1 Hz to 100 Hz.
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The method of converting oil residues to usable substances, which comprises:
- passing the oil residues along a path;
- passing a solvent for that oil residues along the path;
- forming an electric field with a pulsating voltage in the range of 3,000 to 10,000 volts;
- untangling molecular assemblages in the oil residues by subjecting the oil residues and the solvent to the electric field at a frequency to untangle the molecular assemblages so as to change the oil residues;
- and
- forming said voltage with electrodes of substantially stationary relative to each other.
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An apparatus for changing the characteristics of oil residues, comprising:
- means forming a path;
- means for passing the oil residues along the path;
- means for passing a solvent for the oil residues along the path;
- and
- means for untangling molecular assemblages in the oil residues by subjecting the oil residues and the solvent to a pulsating electric field at a frequency to untangle the molecular assemblages so as to change the oil residues with a voltage in the range of 3,000 to 10,000 volts;
- said means for subjecting including a pair of mutually stationary electrodes.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.