Reformed fuel oil, process for producing the same and apparatus therefor

Abstract

A reformed fuel oil capable of enhancing combustion efficiency. The reforming is performed by circulating a fuel oil required times through a primary reform treatment in which the fuel oil is caused to undergo not only flow by centrifugal force but also meandering flow made while repeating flow split and confluence in a direction crossing the direction of the centrifugal force flow and a secondary reform treatment in which the fuel oil having undergone the primary reform treatment is caused to undergo not only flow by pressure feed force but also meandering flow made while repeating flow split and confluence in a direction crossing the direction of the pressure feed force flow.

1 . A reformed fuel oil obtained by:
 providing a primary reform treatment of allowing a fuel oil to flow by means of centrifugal force and to flow in a meandering state while repeating diversion and convergence in a direction crossing a direction of the flow;   providing a secondary reform treatment of performing reform-treatment by means of a fluid reformer allowing the fuel oil primarily treated to be reformed to flow by means of a pressure-feed force and allowing the fuel oil to flow in a meandering state while repeating diversion and convergence in a direction crossing a direction of the flow,   wherein the fluid reformer disposes a disk-shaped second reforming element to be opposed to a disk-shaped first reforming element forming a flow inlet of a fluid at a center part and configures a reforming unit forming a reforming flow path for flowing and reforming the fluid in-flow from the flow inlet in a radiation direction between the reforming elements;   in a casing main body formed in a cylindrical shape, the reforming unit is disposed in plurality at intervals in an axial direction thereof, forming a space for shaping a flow path by the adjacent reforming units and the casing main body;   in the space for shaping the flow path, disk-shaped collecting-flow-path forming elements are disposed so that: the fluid having passed through the reforming flow path outflows substantially equally from a full circumference of a flow outlet opening like a ring; and a collecting-flow path flowing and gathering to an axial core side of the casing main body is formed;   in the collecting-flow-path forming element, an expansive guide body stabilizing a flow-path sectional area is formed at one side face of the element main body, and the guide member is formed in a substantially fan-like, planar shape from an outer circumferential arc face formed on an arc face of a curvature which is identical to that of an outer circumferential edge of the element main body, a pair of side faces which are connected to each other to be extended from both ends of the outer circumferential arc face to a center side of the element main body, and an abutment face formed in a plane which is in parallel to the element main body; and   the guide member is disposed in plurality at equal intervals at a circumferential part of the element main body in a circumferential direction thereof, and is formed so that: an outer circumferential arc face of each of the guide members is flush with an outer circumferential end face of the collecting-flow-path forming element and an outer circumferential end face of the second reforming element; and   
       the side faces opposed to each other, of the adjacent guide members, are in parallel to each other in a circumferential direction, allowing a groove portion width of a groove portion, which is formed of side face of the adjacent guide members and a rear face of the element main body, to be substantially equal to another one from a circumferential side to a center side, of the collecting-flow-path forming element. 
     
     
         2 . The reformed fuel oil set forth in  claim 1 , wherein the secondary reform treatment comprises adding a slight amount of air to the fuel oil primarily treated to be reformed. 
     
     
         3 . A process for producing reformed fuel oil, comprising:
 a primary reform treatment step of performing reform treatment of allowing a fuel oil to flow in a meandering state while repeating shear-shaped diversion and compressive confluence by means of a centrifugal force; and   a secondary reform treatment step, by means of the fluid reformer set forth in  claim 1 , of performing reform treatment of allowing the fuel oil primarily treated to be reformed in the primary reform treatment step, to flow in a meandering state while repeating shear-shaped diversion and compressive confluence by means of a pressure-feed force.   
     
     
         4 . The process for producing reformed fuel oil, as set forth in  claim 3 , wherein a slight-amount-of-air feed step of feeding a slight amount of air is provided prior to the secondary reform treatment step. 
     
     
         5 . An apparatus for producing reformed fuel oil, comprising:
 a first reform treatment section of performing reform treatment of allowing a fuel oil to flow by means of centrifugal force and to flow in a meandering state while repeating shear-shaped diversion and compressive confluence in a direction crossing the direction of the flow; and   a secondary reform treatment section, which is the fluid reformer set forth in  claim 1 , of performing reform treatment of allowing the fuel oil primarily treated to be reformed in the primary reform treatment section, to flow by means of a pressure-feed force and to flow in a meandering state while repeating shear-shaped diversion and compressive confluence in a direction crossing the direction of the flow.   
     
     
         6 . An apparatus for producing reformed fuel oil, comprising a primary reform treatment section, a secondary treatment section, and an air means feed section between the primary reform treatment section and the secondary treatment section. 
     
     
         7 . A reformed fuel oil obtained by:
 providing a primary reform treatment of allowing a fuel oil to flow by means of centrifugal force and to flow in a meandering state while repeating diversion and convergence in a direction crossing a direction of the flow;   providing a secondary reform treatment of allowing the fuel oil primarily treated to be reformed to flow by means of a pressure-feed force and allowing the fuel oil to flow in a meandering state while repeating diversion and convergence in a direction crossing a direction of the flow.   
     
     
         8 . The reformed fuel oil set forth in  claim 7 , wherein the secondary reform treatment comprises adding a slight amount of air to the fuel oil primarily treated to be reformed. 
     
     
         9 . A process for producing reformed fuel oil, comprising:
 a primary reform treatment step of performing reform treatment of allowing a fuel oil to flow in a meandering state while repeating shear-shaped diversion and compressive confluence by means of a centrifugal force; and   a secondary reform treatment step of performing reform treatment of allowing the fuel oil primarily treated to be reformed in the primary reform treatment step, to flow in a meandering state while repeating shear-shaped diversion and compressive confluence by means of a pressure-feed force.   
     
     
         10 . The process for producing reformed fuel oil, as set forth in  claim 9 , wherein a slight-amount-of-air feed step of feeding a slight amount of air is provided prior to the secondary reform treatment step. 
     
     
         11 . An apparatus for producing reformed fuel oil, comprising:
 a first reform treatment section of performing reform treatment of allowing a fuel oil to flow by means of centrifugal force and to flow in a meandering state while repeating shear-shaped diversion and compressive confluence in a direction crossing the direction of the flow; and   a secondary reform treatment section of performing reform treatment of allowing the fuel oil primarily treated to be reformed in the primary reform treatment section, to flow by means of a pressure-feed force and to flow in a meandering state while repeating shear-shaped diversion and compressive confluence in a direction crossing the direction of the flow.   
     
     
         12 . An oil treatment apparatus comprising a disk-shaped reforming element opposed to a disk-shaped first reforming element forming a flow inlet of a fluid at a center part and configures a reforming unit forming a reforming flow path for flowing and reforming the fluid in-flow from the flow inlet in a radiation direction between the reforming elements;
 in a casing main body formed in a cylindrical shape, the reforming unit is disposed in plurality at intervals in an axial direction thereof, forming a space for shaping a flow path by the adjacent reforming units and the casing main body;   in the space for shaping the flow path, disk-shaped collecting-flow-path forming elements are disposed so that: the fluid having passed through the reforming flow path outflows substantially equally from a full circumference of a flow outlet opening like a ring; and a collecting-flow path flowing and gathering to an axial core side of the casing main body is formed;   in the collecting-flow-path forming element, an expansive guide body stabilizing a flow-path sectional area is formed at one side face of the element main body, and the guide member is formed in a substantially fan-like, planar shape from an outer circumferential arc face formed on an arc face of a curvature which is identical to that of an outer circumferential edge of the element main body, a pair of side faces which are connected to each other to be extended from both ends of the outer circumferential arc face to a center side of the element main body, and an abutment face formed in a plane which is in parallel to the element main body; and   the guide member is disposed in plurality at equal intervals at a circumferential part of the element main body in a circumferential direction thereof, and is formed so that: an outer circumferential arc face of each of the guide members is flush with an outer circumferential end face of the collecting-flow-path forming element and an outer circumferential end face of the second reforming element; and the side faces opposed to each other, of the adjacent guide members, are in parallel to each other in a circumferential direction, allowing a groove portion width of a groove portion, which is formed of side face of the adjacent guide members and a rear face of the element main body, to be substantially equal to another one from a circumferential side to a center side, of the collecting-flow-path forming element.