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US 5,516,502 AGranted
Singlet delta oxygen generator
AssigneeRockwell International Corporation
InventorRobert A. Dickerson
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for generating excited singlet delta oxygen by effecting a chemical reaction between chlorine and basic hydrogen peroxide.
Claims15
A method of producing singlet delta oxygen comprising the steps of:
- (a) injecting reactants comprising liquid basic hydrogen peroxide and gaseous chlorine at supersonic speed into a reactor having a constant circular cross section;
- (b) reacting the injected gaseous chlorine with the injected liquid basic hydrogen peroxide under supersonic flow conditions within the reactor in a cyclonic manner to form a flow of liquid droplets and gaseous singlet delta oxygen, the gaseous chlorine being injected tangentially to an outer radius of said reaction chamber via jets opening into said chamber near an inner radial wall thereof;
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- (c) separating said flow of liquid droplets and gaseous singlet delta oxygen into distinct separate flow streams.
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A method of producing singlet delta oxygen comprising the steps of:
- (a) injecting reactants comprising liquid basic hydrogen peroxide and gaseous chlorine at supersonic speed into a reactor having a constant circular cross section;
- (b) reacting the injected gaseous chlorine with the injected liquid basic hydrogen peroxide under supersonic flow conditions within the reactor in a cyclonic manner to form a flow of liquid droplets and gaseous singlet delta oxygen, the liquid basic hydrogen peroxide being injected tangentially to an outer radius of said reaction chamber via jets opening into said chamber proximate the central axis of said reaction chamber;
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- (c) separating said flow of liquid droplets and gaseous singlet delta oxygen into distinct separate flow streams.
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