# US 9,752,095 B2 · Enhanced flash chamber

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- Number: US 9,752,095 B2
- Document ID: US9752095B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 14/549,085
- Filed: 2014-11-20
- Published: 2015-03-19
- Granted: 2017-09-05
- Earliest claimed: 2010-09-03
- Applicants: Linden L. Duncan
- Inventors: Linden L. Duncan
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US9752095B2

## CPC

- C11B 1/10: by extracting
- B01D 11/0203: {with a supercritical fluid}
- B01D 11/0211: {in combination with an electric or magnetic field}
- H05B 6/6473: {combined with convection heating (H05B6/6485 takes precedence)}
- H05B 6/72: Radiators or antennas
- H05B 6/804: {Water heaters, water boilers}
- H05B 6/806: {for laboratory use}
- C11B: PRODUCING, e.g. BY PRESSING RAW MATERIALS OR BY EXTRACTION FROM WASTE MATERIALS, REFINING OR PRESERVING FATS, FATTY SUBSTANCES, e.g. LANOLIN, FATTY OILS OR WAXES; ESSENTIAL OILS; PERFUMES (drying-oils C09F)
- B01D: SEPARATION (separating solids from solids by wet methods B03B, B03D; by pneumatic jigs or tables B03B; by other dry methods B07; magnetic or electrostatic separation of solid materials from solid materials or fluids, separation by high-voltage electric fields B03C; centrifuges, vortex apparatus B04; presses per se for squeezing-out liquid from liquid-containing material B30B9/02; treatment of water C02F, e.g. softening by ion-exchange C02F1/42; {arrangements of air intake cleaners in gas turbine plants F02C7/05} ; arrangements or mounting of filters in air-conditioning, air-humidification or ventilation F24F13/28)
- H05B: ELECTRIC HEATING; ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; CIRCUIT ARRANGEMENTS FOR ELECTRIC LIGHT SOURCES, IN GENERAL

## Abstract

An enhanced flash chamber with a flash chamber; a microwave source in communication with the flash chamber for providing a quantity of energy to a plurality of antennas within the flash chamber; a fluid chamber positionable within the flash chamber capable of holding a liquid and the plurality of antennas; and transport tubing for transporting a target material for extraction through the fluid chamber where the quantity of energy from the microwave source interacts with the plurality of antennas to heat the liquid held in the fluid chamber to a superheated state and the superheated state of the liquid transfers a portion of the quantity of energy to the target material to extract an extraction product from the target material.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A method of extracting oil from an oil bearing target material comprising:
positioning a high electro-negativity antenna within a flash chamber, the high electro-negativity antenna consisting of a conductive rod attached to a conductive base consisting of a plurality of conductive layers;
generating microwave radiation that interacts with the high electro-negativity antenna such that the plurality of conductive layers receive energy of the microwave radiation;
heating a liquid media in which the high electro-negativity antenna is submerged within the flash chamber to a superheated state by way of the interaction; and
contacting the oil bearing target material with the liquid media in the superheated state so as to heat the oil bearing target material and produce an extracted suspension containing the oil.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1 further comprising positioning a plurality of high electro-negativity antennas within the flash chamber each consisting of a conductive rod attached to a conductive base consisting of a plurality of conductive layers.

### Claim 3 (depends on 2)

The method of claim 2 wherein positioning the plurality of high electro-negativity antennas includes completely submerging each of the plurality of high electro-negativity antennas in the liquid media.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1 further including a flow of the target material to contact the liquid media.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

The method of claim 1 further comprising performing a secondary process on the extracted suspension.

### Claim 6 (depends on 5)

The method of claim 5 wherein the secondary process includes an extraction process, a distillation process, an entraining process, a decanting process, an evaporation process, or a collection process.