DEVICE FOR ANALYZING CRUDE OIL COMPOSITION Russian patent published in 2007 - IPC G01N33/28 

FIELD: oil industry.

SUBSTANCE: device comprises standard tank (1) transparent for visible and microwave radiation, microwave chamber (2) made of a rectangular hollow parallelepiped, source of microwave radiation (3), illuminator (4), TV camera (5), two solenoid-operated valves (6) and (7), weight pickup (8), measuring converter (9), electronic commutator (10), analogue-digital converter (11), interface (12), and computer (13). The walls of microwave chamber (2) are provided with holes (18)-(23) for introducing and recording the radiation from microwave source (3) and for filling and empting tank (1) with the crude oil. Standard tank (1) is formed by two straight hollow cylinders of different diameters. Illuminator (4) is made of a cylindrical luminescence arc-discharge lamp mounted inside the cylinder of smaller diameter so that the cylinder and standard tank are axially aligned. The cylinder is secured from outer side of bottom (17) and top (16) walls of microwave chamber (2). Solenoid-operated valves (6) and (7) are locked.

EFFECT: enhanced precision.

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