WO2001005711A1

WO2001005711A1 - Device for physical treating of water and other fluids

Info

Publication number: WO2001005711A1
Application number: PCT/IT1999/000235
Authority: WO
Inventors: Luigina Anna Persico
Original assignee: Luigina Anna Persico
Priority date: 1999-07-16
Filing date: 1999-07-23
Publication date: 2001-01-25
Also published as: ITBG990040A0; ITBG990040A1; IT1309492B1

Abstract

This invention relates to a device for physically treating water and other fluids by acting on said fluids while caused to flow within a narrow interspace enclosing a physically active cylindrical core and bounded by the inner surface of a tubular containing element provided with a plurality of helical projections arranged to generate vorticity within the passing fluids.

Description

DEVICE FOR PHYSICAL TREATING OF WATER AND OTHER FLUIDS

Technical Field

This invention relates to a device for physically treating water and other fluids.

Background Art

It is known that the atoms of substances behave as minuscule spirals traversed by current. The result is that they undergo alterations in their physical-chemical properties when exposed to sufficient physical stress, such as ionizing radiation or a strong magnetic field which alters the geometry of their spatial structure. In particular, when the atoms undergo for example the physical action of a magnetic field, they tend to mutually align in a precise direction. This fact alters the tendency of the atoms, or rather of the ions, to interact with other atoms or ions. It follows that fluids can be physically treated such that their constituent molecules, or the molecules carried by them, acquire particular desired properties. One of the major uses of the action exerted by magnetic fields is the prevention of calcareous deposits forming in water pipes. However, experimental work en such magnetic fields is also underway in other sectors, in which surprising results have been obtained exceeding all expectations. In particular it has been noted that high-intensity magnetic fields favour certain molecular disgrcgaticn processes involving usual techniques. All these applications require large-concentration magnetic fields. There are also applications in which the proximity of very sensitive electronic circuits is a problem, and which therefore demand minimum or zero external dispersion of the magnetic field generated by the magnetization devices. As such alteration in spatial atom orientation to create instability within the molecular environment is achievable only with particular electric currents, it is not commonly employable because of the considerable circuit costs and energy consumption which it involves. An object of this invention is to define a device for physically treating water and other fluids which can use high-intensity magnetic fields derived from permanent magnets as the physical means for atomic-molecular distortion. A further object is to define a device, as heretofore specified, which comprises means for preventing external dispersion of the magnetic flux.

Disclosure of Invention

These and further objects will be seen to have been attained on reading the following detailed description of a device for physically treating water and other fluids, characterised by acting on said fluids while caused to flow within a narrow interspace enclosing a physically active cylindrical core and bounded by the inner surface of a tubular containing clement provided with a plurality of helical projections arranged to generate vorticity within the passing fluids.

Brief description of drawings

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Figure 1 shows a device of cylindrical shape represented in section on a radial half-plane as far as its axis of symmetry; its other half is shown in terms of its internal constituent parts by partial removal of the more peripheral parts; the thin line shows the profile of the cylindrical device when externally complete. Figure 2 shows one end of the device, illustrating one manner of assembling its constituent parts.

Best mode of carrying out the invention

With reference to the aforesaid Figure 1, the device forms a portion of the pipe carrying the liquid or gaseous fluid prior to its use. In the case of an internal combustion engine fuel, this portion is situated close to the equipment for feeding the fuel into the engine. In the case of gas oil or kerosene for use in boilers or turbines, this portion is situated close to the combustion chamber. In the case of domestic fuel gas (for example methane), this portion is situated close to the flame. The device must be fitted with connectors for its connection to the fluid- carrying pipe which are suitable for its specific use. If it is to be used domestically in water pipes these connectors are preferably of usual threaded type. If it is to be used in internal combustion engines, for which the fuel flows through rubber hoses, the device could be provided with two holed shanks 1 , 2 to be connected to them by insertion followed by clamping by usual hose clips on the portions 3 and 4. The device comprises a conduit 5 for fuel entry and a conduit 6 through which the fuel leaves. The path followed by the fuel is indicated by arrows 7. After passing through the entry conduit 5 the fuel reaches a conceptually radial channel S opening into a longitudinally extending annular chamber 9. After passing through this latter the fuel flows through a conceptually radial channel to enter the axial exit conduit 6 by centripetal motion. The interior of the annular chamber 9 is defined by a central cylindrical body 10 consisting of a permanent magnet of very high field intensity.

The higher this field intensity, the better is the performance of the device. The value of this intensity depends both on the present technology of the permanent magnet sector and on the cost of such magnets, which significantly affects the final cost of the device. As an example, a value of about 10,000 Oersted can be achieved using for example ncodymium-i rcn-boron magnets. The magnetic cylindrical body or magnet 10 is polarized longitudinally, to have the north pole and south pole S positioned as shown in Figure 1. The outer region of said annular chamber 9 is defined by the interior of a ferromagnetic tube 11 housed in a dia agnetic tube 12. The diamagnetic tube 12 can be constructed of brass or of stainless steel having a magnetic permeability of typical di magnctism values. It also performs the function of fixing all the parts of the device by being scaledly crimped at 13, 14 into annular grooves 15, 16 in respective pieces 3A, 4Λ integral with the two holed shanks 1 and 2. Said grooves 15 could house rubber seal gaskets (not shown). The interior of said pieces is provided with a suitably conical cavity 17, IS, to be brought into tight contact with the respective end of the magnet 10. For this purpose this latter is made atchingly conical to facilitate central positioning (self-centering) during assembly. The crimping at 13 and 14 then stabilizes this positioning. The already mounted ferromagnetic tube 11 is thus also stabilized in position. It should be noted that said stabilization is achieved neither by clamping nor by interference preloads. In this respect the ferromagnetic tube 11 maintains both its axial clearance 19 and its radial clearance 20 from the diamagnetic containing tube 12. It becomes locked against one side of the interior of said diamagnetic tube by the inevitable unbalancing of the very strong magnetic field, induced in it by the magnet 10, about the axis 21 of the substantially cylindrical parts of the device.

The operation of the invention is apparent from the aforedefined structural configuration. When any substance is placed in a magnetic field it becomes magnetized by induction, ie it manifests the presence of magnetic poles en its surface. Substances are generally classified as diamagnetic, paramagnetic and ferromagnetic. Diamagnetic substances become magnetized in an extremely weak manner, and such that their north pole is induced in the region closest to the north inducing pole, ie the two north poles face each other (and thus are mutually repelled, even though weakly due to the low magnetization). In contrast, paramagnetic substances have their north pole induced in the region closest to the south inducing pole. Ferromagnetic substances arc magnetized in the same manner, but with an intensity many thousands of times greater, to create the common magnet attraction phenomena known to all. By applying these scientific laws to the illustrated device, it is apparent that the presence of a concentric ferromagnetic tube 11 about the magnetic cylindrical body 10 can link to itself the entire flux radiated by said magnet 10. Consequently in said tube there arises at one end a polarity S' opposite the N pole of the magnet, and at the other end a polarity W opposite the S pole of the magnet. Hence very strong mutual attraction forces develop between the material of the two parts 10 and 11, which remain strong because the parts 10 and 11 cannot come into mutual contact, by virtue of being mechanically secured in the manner already described. The entire magnetic force possessed by the magnet 10 thus becomes concentrated within the interspace between said constituent parts of the annular chamber 9, without undergoing any dispersion. In this respect, on the outside of the ferromagnetic tube 11 there is a casing consisting of the diamagnetic tube 12. It follows that the south pole S' cannot expand to induce in this latter a complementary north pole, as it can induce only an analogous repulsive south pole S". Likewise the north pole ' of the ferromagnetic tube 11 induces close to it in the diamagnetic tube 12 a north pole N". It is hence clear that when fuel flows through the annular chamber 9, it is subjected to a magnetic field of immense force, not encountered in any of the previously known magnetizing devices.

In the fluid passing through the interior of the device, the atoms of its molecules arc therefore able to experience the well-known forced orientation by the magnetic field, ie the considerable molecular distortion created by the magnetic forces (millions of dynes per cm²), which facilitates disgregation of the fluid molecule.

If this fluid is a hydrocarbon (liquid or gaseous), the said physical distortion of the molecules results in easier or complete combustion.

In Figure 1 the peripheral surface of the annular chamber 9 consists of helical grooves or projections 22, substantially similar to those of a multi-start thread. The purpose of this expedient is to determine a prolonged retention time of the fluid within the magnetic field, so exerting a particularly effective physical action on it. This prolonged retention time is achieved by transforming the rectilinear (and hence brief) movement of the fluid in passing from the entry conduit 5 to the exit conduit 6, into a helical movement. In this respect, the fluid is theoretically urged to undergo this movement in passing through the greater length of the grooves. The closer the edges of the grooves to the concentric cylindrical surface of the magnet 10, the more closed the helical grooves become, to compel the whole of the fluid to pass through them. The further these edges are from said surface of the magnet 10, the more the fluid is able to flow through the annular chamber with rectilinear movement.

In practice, the fluid moves with partially helical turbulent motion. This results in a very rapid continuous variation in the orientation of the molecules which, in combination with the changeability of the magnetic field present in the annular chamber 9, creates an extremely violent and frequent movement of the atomic particles. In this respect, starting from the S pole present on the magnet 10 in the entry region, the fluid passes into contact with the N pole present on the magnet in the exit region. The fluid is subjected to a gradual complete polarity reversal of the magnetic field, this variation being complemented by another very high frequency variation in the spin orientation connected with the vorticity of the molecules flowing through the annular chamber 9. In this respect, experiments already carried out on the effect of magnetic fields on water, aimed at preventing calcareous incrustations depositing, have shown that these fields are effective only if there is vorticose motion and a high transit velocity. The aforedescribed constructional solutions therefore favour molecule disgregation, which leads to easier or more complete combustion if the fluid is an internal combustion engine fuel. The presence of the helical grooves 22 also offers a further advantage, connected with the presence in them of "niches" protected from the kinetic energy of the vortices, in which any microscopic ferrous particles present in said fluids can remain retained by the strong magnetic field present therein. This has proved of extreme importance especially if the device is used to treat fuels intended for injection-fed engines, in which the reciprocating plungers slide with virtually no slack and are therefore very delicate. Figure 1 shows the fuel fed into the annular chamber 9 via an axial conduit 5 (or 6 as the device is symmetrical) opening into two or four radial channels or holes 8. This arrangement is intended mainly to highlight the concept. In this respect, from a constructional viewpoint it could be more convenient to implement the said flow arrangement in another manner, for example by forming diametrical end cuts in the conical cavity 17 which are deep enough to reach the axial conduits 5, 6 to hence form radial channels having a purpose similar to the channels 8. An alternative could be that shown in Figure 2, in which the f rusto-conical ends 102 of a magnet 100 are provided with oblique grooves 101, which could also be formed by flattening portions of the conical surface. Said ends are housed in respective recessed centering seats 104 present in a connecting endpiece 105. In Figure 2, the reference numeral 106 indicates a ferromagnetic tube for closing the magnetic field about a chamber 9' in a similar manner to the tube 11 of Figure 1. The reference numeral 107 indicates a tube of diamagnetic material comparable to the tube 12 of Figure 1. Figure 2 also shows a different method of joining together the constituent parts of the device, ie by end-turning at 109 assisted by a sealing 0-ring 103 housed in a suitable circumferential groove provided in the endpiece 105.

Claims

Cl aims

1. A device for physically treating water and other fluids, characterised by acting on said fluids while caused to flow within a narrow interspace (9) enclosing a physically active cylindrical core (10) and bounded by the inner surface of a tubular containing element (11) provided with a plurality of helical projections (22) arranged to generate vorticity within the passing fluids.

2. A device as claimed in the preceding claim, characterised in that the interspace (9) is enclosed by a container (12) of diamagnetic material.

3. A device as claimed in the preceding claims, characterised by an interspace (9, 9') forming a magnetizing chamber by association with a permanent magnet in the form of a central cylindrical body (10) about which a coaxial ferromagnetic tube (11) is provided in such a manner as to define an annular interspace.

4. A device as claimed in the preceding claim, characterised by a ferromagnetic tube (11) provided internally with helical grooves (22), preferably of triangular cross-section, comparable to those of a multi-start thread.

5. A device as claimed in the preceding claim, characterised by a structure composed of two connection endpieces (3A, 4A, 105) which comprise an axial entry conduit (5) and an axial exit conduit (6), and which grip within their conical centering cavities (17, 104) a central magnet (10, 100) about which there is freely positioned a coaxial ferromagnetic tube (11, 1C6) which forms an annular chamber (9, 9') through which the fluid transits, and is housed within a diamagnetic tube (12, 107) which is fixed to the connection endpieces (3A, 4A, 105) by appropriate usual crimping (13, 109) of its regions (15, 16), so as to lock them in their position in which they axially fix the central magnet.

6. A device as claimed in the preceding claims, characterised in that the north pole N and the south pole S are present at the ends of the cylindrical form of the magnet (10) in order to give the magnetic flux a longitudinal orientation.