US154430A - Improvement in apparatus for refining petroleum - Google Patents

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nr.'|1.-TuizN|aR.v -App.aratus^fo`r Refining Petrpleum.- No.154y453o'- Patented Aug.25,18174.

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i UNITED STATEs PATENT OFFICE.

REUBEN D. TURNER, OF YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR OF FIVE-EIGHTHS HIS RIGHT TO WILLIAM BUSHELL, EDGAR W. WHITNEY, AND HENRY J. TROWBRIDGE, OF SAME PLAGE-AND THEODORE W. ARMS, OF PHILA- DELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN APPARATUS FCR REFINING PETROLEUM.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 154,430, dated August 25, 187.4; application filed January 23,l 1874.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, REUBEN D. TURNER, ofthe city, county, and State of New York, have invented an Improved Apparatus for the Treatment of Petroleum, of which the following is a specification:

This invention relates t0 the treatment of petroleum oils for the purpose of depriving them of their odorous and explosive properties by atomizing the oil through the agency of steam. The invention consists in the combination of a perforated steam-coil with steam and oil atomizers arranged Within a refiningchamber, and connected With Van outside oil'- heating vessel or tube, substantially as hereinafter described,whereby all the obnoxious odors and explosive or ashing principles of the oil are absorbed and the oil generally improved for illuminating and other purposes.

Figure 1 is a vertical section of an apparatus constructed in accordance With my invention, and Fig. 2 a horizontal section thereof on the line m x.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspondingparts.

A is the refining chamber or vessel, intol which the petroleum is sprayed, and,-WhileV thus cut up or divided, is mingled with steam, that forms such an intimate relation or union with the oil, when the latter is in the condition of aline spray, as to readily absorb the n odorous and flashing principles of the oil, and

to generally improve and refine it. The oil is introduced, together with a`- small supply of steam, through-one or more spraying devices or atomizers, B,-similar to `those employed by me in other apparatus for treating spirits and other purposes.

The oil to betreated is first introduced into a close vessel or tube, C, arranged on the outside of or around the vessel A, and heated by' a jacket, b, into which steam is introduced by a pipe, c, through a main steam-pipe, D, from a boiler, another branch, d, serving to convey steam onto the top of the heated oil in the vessel B for the purpose of forcing or expelling it Vthrough the pipes c of the atomizers, and to supply a certain portion of steam, by branches f, to the outside pipes ofthe atomizers, through which latter said steam escapes, along With the sprayed oil, into the vessel A. As, howA ever,this supply of steam would not be sufficient to effect the necessary absorption from .the oil, an additional supply of steam is introduced Within the vessel A by a perforated coil, E, connected, by a branch, t, with the pipe D.

The pipes or branches c, d, and t should each be provided with acock to regulate the supply of steam through it; and the pipes c may be similarly provided to regulate the discharge of oil. y

After the sprayed oil has been treated as described, it collects, together with any Water of condensation, in the bottom of the vessel A, and may be readily drawn off by a cock or otherwise, While the Water of condensation is run oft', from time to time, by another and lower cock. The more volatile particles of the oil may pass oli' with escaping steam, either to the atmosphere by pipe from the upper portion of the vessel A, or be conducted to and through a condenser, or through a succession of condensers, to prevent Waste of any valuable principles.

The combination of the perforated steamcoil E with the steam and oil atomizers B, the refining-chamber A, and the oil-heating vessel or tube C, substantially as shown and described.

REUBEN D. TURNER.

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