Pulse flow reactors and systems or uses thereof

Abstract

A pulse flow reactor including an air plenum configured to receive an oxidant, an aerovalve configured to receive the oxidant from the air plenum, a combustion chamber configured to receive the oxidant from the aerovalve and to receive a target material to be combusted, an injector coupled to the combustion chamber and configured to provide the target material to the combustion chamber, and a tailpipe through which combustion products from the combustion chamber exit the pulse flow reactor. The oxidant is in the form of a gas, and the target material comprises a liquid or slurry or vapor. Destroying or combusting a target material includes providing the target material to the pulse flow reactor, providing an oxidant to the combustion chamber, and thermally or thermochemically treating the target material in the combustion chamber to combust the target material, thereby yielding combustion products.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.