Nova Patents
US1936699A

Apparatus and process for treating hydrocarbon oils

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US1936699A, drawing sheet 1
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Expired 28 November 1950, 75.8 years ago.

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7 claims: 7 independent, 0 dependent

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    What I claim as my invention is:45 1. In an oil conversion system, a setting formed to include a converting section and a vaporizing section, an oil converter situated in said converting section, an oil vaporizer situated in said vaporizing section, combustion producing means 50 arranged in said converting section to produce furnace gases having sufficient temperature to heat the oil passing through said converter to conversion temperatures in excess of 1000° F., means formed in connection with said setting 55 for transferring waste gases from said converting section to the vaporizing section to heat and vaporize oil passing through said vaporizer, said vaporizing section being provided with a waste gas outlet, and means for recirculating the waste 60 gases obtained from said outlet through either or both the converting and/or vaporizing sections of said setting.
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    In an oil conversion system, a furnace setting formed to include spaced vaporizing and convert65 ing chambers, an oil vaporizer situated in said vaporizing chamber, an oil converter arranged in said converting chamber, means for developing combustion in said converting chamber to produce furnace gases of sufficiently high tempera70 ture to heat oils passing through said converter to conversion temperatures, means formed in connection with said setting for transferring waste gases from said converting chamber to said vaporizing chamber to heat and vaporize oil passing 75 through said vaporizer, said vaporizing chamber being provided with a waste gas outlet leading to the atmosphere, a duct communicating with said outlet and provided with branches leading respectively to the converting and vaporizing chambers of said setting, a fan for creating forced 80 circulation of said waste gases through the waste gas outlet of the vaporizing chamber, and damper mechanism arranged in said duct and in the respective branches thereof to govern selectively the passage of waste gases, first, through 85 said duct and, second, through said branches.
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    In an oil conversion system, a furnace setting formed to include spaced vaporizing and converting chambers, an oil vaporizer situated in said vaporizing chamber, an oil converter ar- 90 ranged in said converting chamber, means for developing combustion in said converting chamber to produce furnace gases of sufficiently high temperature to heat oils passing through said converter to conversion temperatures, means 95 formed in connection with said setting for transferring waste gases from said converting chamber to said vaporizing chamber to heat and vaporize oil passing through said vaporizer, said vaporizing chamber being provided with a waste gas 100 outlet leading to the atmosphere, a duct communicating with said outlet and provided with branches leading respectively to the converting and vaporizing chambers of said setting, a fan for creating forced circulation of said waste 105 gases through the waste gas outlet of the vaporizing chamber, damper mechanism arranged in said duct and in the respective branches thereof to govern selectively the passage of waste gases, first, through said duct and, second, through uq said branches, a heat exchanger arranged in the waste gas outlet of said vaporizing chamber, means for passing air through said heat exchanger to pre-heat the air by the temperature of the waste gases passing through said outlet, Π5 and air lines leading from said heat exchanger to the vaporizing and converting chambers of the setting.
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    In an oil conversion system, the combination with a furnace setting formed to include 120 spaced converting and vaporizing sections, each of such sections being provided with a chamber, a transversely extending bridge wall arranged within each of said chambers, a converter arranged in the chamber formed in said convert- 125 ing section and disposed on one side of said bridge wall, a vaporizer disposed in the chamber formed in said vaporizing section and arranged on one side of the bridge wall in the vaporizing chamber, combustion producing means arranged 130 in said converting section to produce furnace gases having sufficient temperature to heat the oil passing through said converter to temperatures of molecular decomposition, said bridge wall serving in said, converting chamber to cause 135 the furnace gases to flow in a downward direction while passing through said converter, an elongated duct for transferring waste gases from said converting section to the vaporizing section to heat and vaporize oil passing through said 140 vaporizer, the bridge wall in said vaporizing section being positioned to cause said gases to move downwardly through the vaporizing section when in contact with said vaporizer, a waste gas outlet leading from said vaporizing section, 145 and means for positively recirculating waste gases obtained from said outlet through the converting and vaporizing sections of said setting.
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    In an oil conversion system, the combination with a furnace setting formed to include 159 1,936,699 3 8. An oil conversion system comprising a first heating section and a second heating section, means arranged in said first heating section to generate combustion gases, means for transferring waste gases from said first heating section to said second heating section, said second heating section being provided with a waste gas outlet, a duct communicating with said outlet and provided with branches leading respectively to the first and second heating sections, a fan for creating forced circulation of said waste gases through the waste gas outlet to the second heating section, and damper mechanism arranged in said duct and in the respective branches thereof to govern selectively the passage of waste gases through said duct and through said branches. 9. An oil conversion system comprising a first heating section and a second heating section, means arranged in said first heating section to generate combustion gases, means for transferring waste gases from said first heating section to said second heating section, said second heating section being provided with a waste gas outlet, a duct communicating with said outlet and provided with branches leading respectively to said heating sections, a fan for creating forced circulation of said waste gases through the waste gas outlet to said second heating chamber, damper mechanism arranged in said duet and in the respective branches thereof to govern selectively the passage of waste gases through said duct and said branches, a heat exchanger arranged in the waste gas outlet of said second heating exchanger to preheat the air by heat exchange spaced converting and vaporizing sections, each of such sections being provided with a chamber, a transversely extending bridge wall arranged within each of said chambers, a converter arranged in the chamber formed in said converting section and disposed on one side of said bridge wall, a vaporizer disposed in the chamber formed in said vaporizing section and arranged on one side of the bridge wall in the vaporizing chamber, combustion producing means arranged in said converting section to produce furnace gases having sufficient temperature to heat the oil passing through said converter to temperatures of molecular decomposition, said bridge wall serving in said converting chamber to cause the furnace gases to flow in a downward direction while passing through said converter, an elongated duct for transferring waste gases from said converting section to the vaporizing section to heat and vaporize oil passing through said vaporizer, the bridge wall in said vaporizing section being positioned to cause said gases to move downwardly through the vaporizing section when in contact with said vaporizer, a waste gas outlet leading 25 from said vaporizing section, means for positively recirculating waste gases obtained from said outlet through the converting and vaporizing sections of said setting, means for introducing air into said converting and vaporizing sections, and 30 means for pre-heating the air delivered to said sections by the waste gases passing through said outlet. /
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    A method of heating oil which comprises „ „— ------ „-------establishing a stream of furnace gases in heat section, means for passing air through said heat 35 exchange with surfaces in contact with said oil, exchanger to preheat the air by heat exchange removing the furnace gases from contact with with said waste gases and an air duct leading said surfaces and recirculating withdrawn fur- from said heat exchanger to the first heating nace gases to a plurality of places along said section. · stream to modify the temperature of said stream io. Apparatus of the character described, in40 at a plurality of separated points relative to its eluding a heating chamber, spaced, series conpassage in contact with said surfaces. nected fluid-conducting units in said chamber,
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    A method of heating oil which comprises means for inducing flow of a fluid heating medipassing the oil through heat exchanger zones in um in successive surface contact with said units, series establishing a stream of furnace gases in and means leading directly to the space between heat exchange with said oil and recirculating a the units for discharging a temperature reducportion of said stream and introducing the same mg medium into the heating medium between unmixed with hot gases to a point intermediate the units. „ «η™™™ the initial and Anal heat exchange of said stream JOSEPH B. WEAVER. with said oil. · 110 1..Ο 125 130 135 140 145 150
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