Fluid reactors
AssigneeCVD Equipment Corporation
InventorsKarlheinz Strobl, James Acquaviva, Leonard A. Rosenbaum, Sandra Gainey, Ajay Kumar
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Abstract
Fluid reactors include a sealed housing enclosing a reactor core that includes at least one substrate-free multichannel reactor core element. Each reactor core element is made from a non-substrate mounted, open pore cellular network material having an asymmetric, tortuous, bi-continuous two-phase material structure and contains multiple perforating fluid channels. Multiple reactor core elements can be serially and/or parallelly piped in a sealed manner to form a reactor core for a fluid reactor with a higher production capacity.
Claims14
A reactor core element for fluid treatment comprising:
- a free standing, substrate-free structure defining
- an input surface;
- an output surface;
- first and second sidewalls connecting the input and output surfaces;
- and
- a plurality of fluid channels extending from the input surface to the output surface,
- wherein the free standing, substrate-free structure includes:
- carbon nanotubes mechanically interlinked by spot welds provided by a coating, and a void phase configured to permit fluid flow through the free-standing, substrate-free structure in a tortuous path from the first sidewall to the second sidewall;
- and a hydrophobic material deposited on at least a portion thereof to render the at least a portion superhydrophobic.
A method of compositionally transforming a primary fluid comprising:
- passing the primary fluid through a plurality of fluid channels extending from an input surface to an output surface of a free standing, substrate-free reactor core element;
- and
- passing at least one secondary fluid through a void phase of the reactor core element in tortuous path, the void phase between first and second sidewalls defined by the free standing, substrate-free reactor core element and formed by ligaments mechanically interlinked by spot welds provided by a coating,
- whereby the primary fluid is compositionally changing while passing through the plurality of fluid channels.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.