F - Mech Eng,Light,Heat,Weapons – 24 – H
Patent
F - Mech Eng,Light,Heat,Weapons
24
H
F24H 1/18 (2006.01) F28D 15/02 (2006.01) F28D 15/06 (2006.01)
Patent
CA 2381469
Oil in a storage tank is heated to reduce viscosity and/or to enhance separation of water/oil emulsion by providing one or more elongate conduit within the storage tank in the form of a loop extending from an inlet manifold across the tank and returning to an outlet manifold. The inlet manifold is connected to an evaporator section at a heat source and the outlet manifold acts as a return of the condensate from the condensation section of the conduit within the tank. A heat transfer fluid medium within the closed system is arranged to boil to form a vapor in the evaporation section and such that release of heat from the condensation section to the fluid to be heated causes the vapor to condense to liquid in the condensation section. The conduit forms a loop and back flow in the loop is prevented by providing a trap of liquid in the conduit at a position adjacent to or at the evaporation section. The flow around the loop at high speed sufficient to carry all condensate forwardly is caused solely by application of energy to the system by the heat source without mechanical pumping. Inert gases are collected immediately upstream of the trap and can be purged therefrom. The fuel supply can be modulated or cycled during a start up phase by an over-limit sensor which maintains heating at a controlled level while the oil is resistant to absorbing heat.
Battison Williams Dupuis
Lange Jack
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