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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 26, 2023
Filed:
Aug. 21, 2020
Solideum Inc., Calgary, CA;
Ian Donald Gates, Calgary, CA;
Jingyi Wang, Calgary, CA;
Other;
Abstract
The invention provides methods for treating a source oil phase consisting of heavy oil, bitumen, a mixture of heavy oil and bitumen, a mixture of solvent and heavy oil or bitumen or both. The method comprises: introducing the source oil phase to a heated lower section of a device to provide an interior source oil phase; heating the interior source oil phase so as to thermally separate a light oil phase component therefrom and provide a vaporized light oil; and condensing the vaporized light oil phase on one or more internal cooling fins housed within the upper section of the device, to provide a condensed light oil phase liquid, wherein the internal cooling fins are angled so as to direct the condensed light oil phase liquid downwardly to a light end collection system.