Method, apparatus and system for manufacture of a cyanide
AssigneeSynergen Met Limited
InventorGeoffrey Alexander Duckworth
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Abstract
A method for producing a cyanide including the steps of supplying a hydrocarbon and nitrogen source to an onsite plasma reactor and removing cyanide synthesised inside the onsite plasma reactor to thereby produce the cyanide is disclosed. Also disclosed is a method which includes a monitor for monitoring the cyanide requirement of an onsite cyanide utilising system and supplying the hydrocarbon and nitrogen source in accordance with the cyanide requirement. Additionally, a method for recovering, refining, purifying or treating a metal including the steps of monitoring a cyanide requirement of the method and supplying to the method in a just in time sequence a cyanide synthesised onsite to thereby recover, refine, purify or treat the metal is disclosed.
Claims22
A method for producing a cyanide including the steps of:
- supplying a hydrocarbon and nitrogen source to an onsite plasma reactor;
- and
- removing cyanide synthesised inside the onsite plasma reactor to thereby produce the cyanide.
An onsite apparatus for producing a cyanide comprising:
- an onsite reaction chamber into which a hydrocarbon and a nitrogen source are fed;
- and
- an onsite plasma reactor to dissociate the hydrocarbon and nitrogen source in the reaction chamber into active radicals to produce the cyanide.
An onsite system for producing a cyanide comprising:
- an onsite reaction chamber for reacting the hydrocarbon and the nitrogen source with an onsite plasma;
- and
- an onsite plasma reactor for dissociating the hydrocarbon and nitrogen source into active radicals to produce the cyanide.
A method for producing a cyanide including the steps of:
- monitoring a cyanide requirement of an onsite cyanide utilising system;
- supplying a hydrocarbon and nitrogen source to an onsite plasma reactor in accordance with the cyanide requirement;
- and
- removing cyanide synthesised inside the onsite plasma reactor to thereby produce the cyanide.
An onsite apparatus for producing a cyanide comprising:
- a monitor for monitoring a cyanide requirement of an onsite cyanide utilising system;
- an onsite reaction chamber into which a hydrocarbon and a nitrogen source are fed in accordance with the cyanide requirement;
- and
- an onsite plasma reactor to dissociate the hydrocarbon and nitrogen source in the reaction chamber into active radicals such that the cyanide is synthesised for supply to the onsite cyanide utilising system.
An onsite system for producing a cyanide comprising:
- a monitor for monitoring a cyanide requirement of a cyanide utilising system;
- an onsite reaction chamber for reacting a hydrocarbon and the nitrogen source with an onsite plasma;
- and
- an onsite plasma reactor for dissociating the hydrocarbon and nitrogen source into active radicals to produce the cyanide for supply to the cyanide utilising system.
An onsite method for recovering, refining, purifying or treating a metal including the steps of:
- monitoring a cyanide requirement of the onsite method;
- supplying to the onsite method in a just in time sequence a cyanide synthesised onsite to thereby recover, refine, purify or treat the metal.
An onsite apparatus for recovering, refining, purifying or treating a metal comprising:
- a monitor to monitor a cyanide requirement of the onsite apparatus;
- and
- an onsite cyanide production apparatus to supply cyanide to the onsite apparatus in a just in time sequence as determined by the monitoring of the cyanide requirement of the onsite apparatus.
An onsite system for recovering, refining, purifying or treating a metal comprising:
- a monitor to monitor a cyanide requirement of the onsite apparatus;
- and
- an onsite cyanide production apparatus to supply cyanide to the onsite apparatus in a just in time sequence as determined by the monitoring of the cyanide requirement of the onsite apparatus.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.