Patents by Inventor Richard W. Krajieck

Richard W. Krajieck has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Method and apparatus for in-line blending of aqueous emulsion
    Patent number: 5173007
    Abstract: Method and apparatus for the in-line blending of a crude oil with an aqueous hydrocarbon emulsion, such as an aqueous emulsion formed in-situ in a cavern in a salt dome, wherein the crude oil and aqueous crude oil emulsion are separately fed to a dynamic in-line blender wherein the crude oil is formed into a flowing crude oil shear curtain and wherein the stream of the aqueous crude oil emulsion is charged to the interior of the flowing crude oil shear curtain, whereby the aqueous emulsion is impacted upon and fragmented by the crude oil of the flowing crude oil shear curtain to form a flowing suspension of finely divided aqueous emulsion particles in the crude oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 1989
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1992
    Assignee: Serv-Tech, Inc.
    Inventor: Richard W. Krajieck