Method and Apparatus for Generating Gaseous Chlorine Dioxide-Chlorine Mixtures
AssigneeCdg Research Corporation
InventorsThomas McWhorter, Aaron Rosenblatt, David Rosenblatt, Barzin Keramati
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Abstract
Gaseous mixture of chlorine dioxide and chlorine produced by reacting an inorganic acid with an aqueous solution of an alkali metal chlorate by controlled introduction of the inorganic acid into the aqueous solution of alkali metal chlorate. Inorganic acid passed through a volume of alkali metal chlorate flowing through a horizontal reactor in a plug flow regime results in an enhanced gaseous mixture of chlorine dioxide, chlorine and steam that can be withdrawn as a product stream.
Claims8
A reactor for generating a gaseous mixture by reacting an aqueous solution of an alkali metal chlorate and an inorganic acid comprising:
- a first horizontally disposed reactor section having a first end adapted to introduce said alkali metal chlorate and inorganic acid into said reactor section;
- a second end of said reactor section having means to impound a volume of said aqueous solution of an alkali metal chlorate within said reactor with a gas space above said volume of said aqueous solution of an alkali metal chlorate;
- means to introduce said inorganic acid at a plurality of locations along at least a portion of the length of said volume of said aqueous solution of an alkali metal chlorate;
- means to withdraw gaseous reactant products from said gas space;
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- collection means at said second end of said reactor section to collect waste liquor from said reactor section.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.