US Patent Issued to CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL, SINOPEC EXPLORATION & PRODUCTION RESEARCH INSTITUTE on Sept. 15 for "Oil-water mixture treatment device and method" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,735,334, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to CHINA PETROLEUM & CHEMICAL Corp. (Beijing) and SINOPEC EXPLORATION & PRODUCTION RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Beijing).

"Oil-water mixture treatment device and method" was invented by Lili Wang (Beijing), Wei Dang (Beijing), Pengyuan Ding (Beijing), Changchao Hu (Beijing), Caixia Bi (Beijing), Zhiwei Tang (Beijing), Wenjie Tan (Beijing), Xingwang Wang (Beijing) and Yanxiao Si (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An oil-water mixture treatment device has a laminar separator and an electric field separator. The laminar separator has a coalescing tube with coalescing filler provided therein, a separati...