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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 07, 2010
Filed:
May. 13, 2005
Applicant:
Richard N. Zare, Stanford, CA (US);
Inventor:
Richard N. Zare, Stanford, CA (US);
Assignee:
Petroshear Corporation, Los Angelos, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C10L 1/00 (2006.01); C10M 101/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
Improved crude oil processing is achieved by viscoelastic shearing of crude oil at an elevated temperature. The shearing provides for an enriched light fraction and an enriched heavy fraction that can be more efficiently separated by distillation. Shearing is achieved using a mobile surface and immobile surface, or other flow geometry, under conditions providing for a transient phase separation.