Systems and Methods for Generating Nitric Oxide
AssigneeThird Pole, Inc.
InventorsPhilip E. Silkoff, Wolfgang Scholz, Sweta Patel
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Abstract
Systems and methods for generating nitric oxide are disclosed. A nitric oxide (NO) generation system includes at least one pair of electrodes configured to generate a product gas containing NO from a flow of a reactant gas; and a controller configured to regulate the amount of nitric oxide in the product gas produced by the at least one pair of electrodes by utilizing duty cycle values of plasma pulses selected from a plurality of discrete duty cycles to produce a target rate of NO production based on an average of discrete production rates associated with each of the plurality of discrete duty cycles.
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A nitric oxide (NO) generation system comprising:
- at least one pair of electrodes configured to generate a product gas containing NO from a flow of a reactant gas;
- and
- a controller configured to regulate the amount of nitric oxide in the product gas produced by the at least one pair of electrodes by utilizing duty cycle values of plasma pulses selected from a plurality of discrete duty cycles to produce a target rate of NO production based on an average of discrete production rates associated with each of the plurality of discrete duty cycles.
A nitric oxide (NO) generation system comprising:
- at least one pair of electrodes configured to generate a product gas containing nitric oxide from a flow of a reactant gas;
- and
- a controller configured to regulate the amount of nitric oxide in the product gas produced by the at least one pair of electrodes by utilizing duty cycle values of plasma pulses selected from a plurality of discrete duty cycles to produce a target rate of NO production by dithering between the discrete duty cycles such that the target rate of NO production is an average rate of production between discrete production rates of each duty cycle of the plurality of duty cycles.
A method of generating nitric oxide (NO) comprising:
- identifying a target amount of NO production;
- controlling the amount of NO production to generate an actual amount of NO over a plurality of plasma pulses by varying at least one of a current to the electrodes with respect to time during each plasma pulse associated with the electrodes and duty cycle values of the plasma pulses selected from a plurality of discrete duty cycles to produce a target rate of NO production based on an average of discrete production rates associated with each of the plurality of the discrete duty cycles;
- and
- adjusting a subsequent plasma pulse based on a comparison of the actual and the target amount of NO production.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.