Plasma reactor for liquid and gas and method of use
AssigneeIon Inject Technology LLC
InventorsWalter Riley Buchanan, Grant William Forsee
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Abstract
A system and method for performing plasma reactions creating a plasma area in a gas adjacent to a liquid. An embodiment of the plasma reactor includes a housing with an internal reaction chamber, first and second inlet paths to the reaction chamber, and electrodes for producing an electric field. The system may optionally further include a pre-ionization electrode and pre-ionization electric field for pre-ionizing a feed gas prior to entry into a reaction chamber. The reactor uses plasma to ionize gas adjacent with the liquid. The ionized gas reacts with the liquid to form an effluent. Exemplary uses of the plasma reactor include ionic injection, gas dissociation, liquid re-formation, and liquid dissociation.
Claims13
A plasma reactor comprising:
- a housing including an internal reaction chamber;
- a first electrode and a second electrode mounted on said housing in spaced relation and each connected to a power source;
- said first and second electrodes configured for forming a primary electric field between one another and within said reaction chamber;
- wherein said first electrode is dielectrically isolated by a dielectric element;
- a first flow spreader forming a first inlet path to said reaction chamber, configured for connection to a gas source and configured for supplying a stream of gas to said reaction chamber;
- a second flow spreader forming a second inlet path to said reaction chamber, configured for connection to a liquid source and configured for supplying a stream of liquid to said reaction chamber;
- wherein said stream of liquid and said stream of gas flow in a laminar manner adjacent one another within said reaction chamber and pass through said electric field to produce an effluent;
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- wherein the first and second electrodes are configured to ionize the gas in said first inlet path and create a plasma adjacent to the liquid when driven by the power source;
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- an alignment rod extending through said first flow spreader, said second flow spreader and said dielectric element.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.