Oil vacuum refers to the use of vacuum technology with petroleum products to perform a desired function. It can be used to draw oil out of equipment for servicing, distill petroleum products, or be a dummy device in a scam. The type of oil vacuum is clear from the context.
An “oil vacuum” can be one of several things, depending on the context in which the term is mentioned. In all cases, the use of this term implies the use of vacuum technology in association with petroleum products to perform some type of desired function.
Several companies make oil vacuums designed to be used to draw oil out of equipment so it can be serviced. An example might be an oil change for a car, lawn mower, or similar equipment. Using an oil vacuum ensures that as much of the old oil as possible is removed. The vacuum can have a filtering function that allows people to take the oil, filter it and return it when the job is done, or it can be designed to pump the oil into a drum for disposal.
Another type of oil vacuum is a vacuum designed for distillation of petroleum products. In this case, the vacuum is actually a very large chamber capable of creating a vacuum, lowering the pressure and lowering the boiling point. When the oil is placed in the vacuum chamber, the components with a higher boiling point evaporate, allowing the distillation of various useful components in the crude oil or partially processed oil. This type of oil vacuum is highly specialized equipment that may need to be customized for a specific refinery.
The third type of oil vacuum is a dummy device that is employed in a fake. The terms of the scam are a lot, but generally speaking, people are asked to invest in a company that is “developing oil vacuum technology” that will somehow revolutionize the oil industry by pulling out normally unrecoverable oil. Such systems do not exist, although some oil companies have developed technology designed to increase the amount of recoverable oil in materials such as shale and oil sands.
The type of oil vacuum under discussion is usually clear from the context of the conversation. In the case of the first example, oil vacuums can be seen in repair shops and other facilities where equipment maintenance is carried out, and people who work on their own equipment can purchase lightweight models for personal use. In the second case, oil vacuums are expensive and complex pieces of refinery equipment, while in the third case, oil vacuums exist only in the imagination.
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