Methods and apparatus for material processing using atmospheric thermal plasma reactor
AssigneeCorning Incorporated
InventorDaniel Robert Boughton
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Abstract
Methods and apparatus provide for: producing a plasma plume within a plasma containment vessel from a source of plasma gas; feeding an elongate feedstock material having a longitudinal axis into the plasma containment vessel such that at least a distal end of the feedstock material is heated within the plasma plume; and spinning the feedstock material about the longitudinal axis as the distal end of the feedstock material advances into the plasma plume, where the feedstock material is a mixture of compounds that have been mixed, formed into the elongate shape, and at least partially sintered.
Claims16
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A method, comprising:
- producing a plasma plume within a plasma containment vessel from a source of plasma gas;
- feeding an elongate feedstock material having a longitudinal axis into the plasma containment vessel such that at least a distal end of the feedstock material is heated within the plasma plume;
- and
- spinning the feedstock material about the longitudinal axis as the distal end of the feedstock material advances into the plasma plume,
- wherein the feedstock material is a mixture of compounds that have been mixed, formed into the elongate shape, and at least partially sintered.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.