Electrical Processing Device for Fatty Substances with Symmetrical Electrodes
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing devices for electrical processing of vegetable or mineral oils lack predictability and control over physicochemical properties, leading to random and unreliable results, making industrial development impossible.
Innovation Solution
A device with symmetrical current flow distances between high-voltage electrodes and a series of parallel electrodes, combined with a filtration system to ensure uniform current distribution and circulation of the oil outside the enclosure for enhanced processing control and reproducibility.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If electrical processing is applied to vegetable or mineral oils using existing devices, then the oils can be processed to modify their physicochemical properties, but the results are random and unpredictable, making industrial development impossible
Solution Approach 1:
The electrode system is segmented into multiple parallel electrodes (at least three) with equal spacing, where each electrode receives the same voltage. This segmentation ensures uniform current distribution across all electrodes, eliminating the random and unpredictable results that characterized previous single-electrode or asymmetric multi-electrode designs.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies uniform electrical properties (same voltage, same spacing, same dimensions) to all electrodes in the series. This local quality consistency ensures that each electrode produces identical electrical discharges in the oil, creating homogeneous processing conditions throughout the treatment zone and enabling reproducible results.
2Power
If high voltage is applied to electrodes in oil processing, then electrical discharges can be generated to modify the oil, but energy losses increase and local arcs form, reducing processing efficiency
Solution Approach 1:
All electrodes in the series are maintained at the same potential (voltage), creating equipotential conditions. This ensures that electrical field strength and discharge characteristics are uniform across all electrodes, preventing localized energy concentration that would cause excessive energy losses and arc formation. The symmetric arrangement with equal spacing reinforces this equipotential state.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates homogeneous electrical processing conditions by using electrodes of identical dimensions, spacing, and voltage. This homogeneity ensures uniform energy distribution throughout the oil treatment zone, preventing localized overheating and excessive energy losses that occur in asymmetric configurations.
3Manufacturing precision
If electrical processing is performed without symmetrical current flow distances, then device design is simplified, but current distribution becomes non-uniform, leading to poor processing control
Solution Approach 1:
The patent deliberately avoids asymmetry in the electrode configuration. By using symmetric arrangements with equal spacing and identical electrode dimensions, the design achieves uniform current distribution. This symmetric approach, while requiring precise manufacturing, provides the control and reproducibility needed for industrial applications, overcoming the limitations of asymmetric designs.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The solution achieves controlled and reproducible electrical processing of fatty substances, reducing energy losses, minimizing the formation of local arcs, and maintaining the homogeneity of the processed oil, thereby improving the effectiveness and quality of the processed lubricating oils.
Implementation Method 1
electrical discharges applied between a first electrode and a second electrode
Implementation Method 2
The device also has a filter having an inlet in fluid connection with said first fatty substance outlet of the enclosure
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AI summary
The present invention relates to a device for electrically processing a fatty substance of plant origin, comprising a series of electrodes (1 and 2) and an enclosure (4), said device being characterised in that the enclosure (4) is provided with at least one electrical connector (5) placed on the outer surface (40) of the enclosure (4), a series of electrical connections for connecting each electrode of said series of electrodes to said electrical connector (5), with the current flow distances of the electrical connections being equal in relation to each other, and a first inlet (6) and a first outlet (7) for the fatty substance, and in that said device comprises a filter (12) having an inlet (13) in fluidic connection with said first fatty-substance outlet (7) of the enclosure (4) and an output (14) in fluidic connection with said first fatty-substance inlet (6) of the enclosure (4).