Treatment process and apparatus for reducing high viscosity in petroleum products, derivatives, and hydrocarbon emulsions, and the like

An apparatus for treating a petroleum product including oil, highly viscous stable oil emulsions for reduction of viscosity, cleansing and separation of emulsions, comprising:

• an input storage tank for containing said petroleum products;
• a swirling hydro-cavitational module serving as a reactor chamber and being connected to said input storage via a pump for delivering the flow of said petroleum product into and through said swirling hydro-cavitational module;
• at least one input device having a discharge nozzle therein and connected to said swirling hydro-cavitational module with said discharge nozzle positioned tangential to said swirling hydro-cavitational module;
• said input device having a discharge chamber and a vertex chamber;
• a plurality of acoustic transducers located at two end walls of said vortex chamber, and the working surface of said transducers being perpendicular to the longitudinal central axis of said vortex chamber;
• said transducers being operative with sonic/ultrasonic frequency generators;
• two output devices with turbulizers positioned adjacent opposite end walls of said vortex chamber;
• one of said input devices located at a nearest end of said vertex chamber being connected by pipelines to said input storage tank and an output storage tank for receiving said petroleum product input and the treated product respectively;
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• an output device located at a farther end from said swirling hydro-cavitational module end of said vortex chamber being a pipeline connected to said storage tank of the input of said petroleum product.