ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,445, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to GUANGDONG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Guangzhou, China).
"Special solar energy water jacket heating furnace in vacuum mode for oil field and method of heating crude oil" was invented by Xiaozhou Liu (Guangzhou, China), Zebin Fu (Guangzhou, China) and Zudong Xie (Guangzhou, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A special solar energy water jacket heating furnace in vacuum mode for an oil field comprises a vacuum heating system and a water jacket furnace heating system; the vacuum heating system comprises a steam generator, a vacuum heater and an ejector; the water jacket furnace heating system comp...