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US 6,540,966 B1Granted
Apparatus and method for recycling contaminated liquids
AssigneeHadronic Press, Inc.
InventorRuggero Maria Santilli
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Abstract
Reactors for the total recycling of contaminated liquid waste, which produce a clean burning combustible gas, usable heat, and solid precipitates. Different embodiments include the efficient recycling of automotive antifreeze and oil waste, a new method for the production of a fuel from crude oil, for desalting seawater and for recycling biologically contaminated liquid waste, such as town sewage, into a clean burning combustible gas, nutrient rich water useful for irrigation, and solid precipitates useful for fertilizers.
Claims62
An apparatus for recycling a liquid into a combustible gas comprising:
- a pressure resistant metal vessel;
- means for generating an electric current to at least one pair of electrodes and for creating an electric arc between tips of said electrodes, said electrodes having at least their tips disposed inside said metal vessel;
- at least one of
- means for flowing said liquid directly through said electric arc between said tips thereby exposing said liquid first to a plasma formed by the electric arc around said tips and subsequently through said electric arc,
- means for flowing said liquid through a tube surrounding said tips thereby forcing said liquid into an essentially concentrated passage first through the plasma formed by said electric arc around said tips and subsequently through said electric arc, and
- means for flowing said liquid through an interior of one of said electrodes thereby concentrating the flow of the liquid first through the electric arc and subsequently through the plasma formed by said electric arc around said tips,
- each of said means for flowing may be one of external and in fluid communication with the vessel to circulate the liquid from inside said vessel back into said vessel and through the plasma and electric arc, and internal to said vessel to circulate the liquid through the plasma and electric arc;
- means for collecting a clean burning combustible gas created by said arc acting on said liquid, the gas bubbling through the liquid in the vessel to a gas collection outlet in mechanical fluid communication with the vessel proximate a top of the vessel;
- and
- means for removing solids in suspension in said liquid following its passing through said arc, wherein said solids precipitate to the bottom of the vessel for subsequent collection,
- wherein the apparatus is operated at desired operating electric power settings, pressures, temperatures and flow rates so that the liquid can be one of
- continually circulated and exposed to the plasma and arc until converted to the combustible gas, and
- partially directed out of the vessel for further processing to obtain a reusable liquid, and
- wherein when the liquid is processed to obtain a reusable liquid, filtering means are provided for filtering the liquid following its passage through the arc, said filtering means being in fluid communication with the vessel.
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A method for producing a clean combustible gas from the recycling of a liquid, the method comprising:
- providing a pressure resistant metal vessel;
- providing means for generating an electric current to at least one pair of electrodes and for creating an electric arc between tips of said electrodes, said electrodes having at least their tips disposed inside said metal vessel;
- providing at least one of means for flowing said liquid directly through said electric arc between said tips thereby exposing said liquid first to a plasma formed by the electric arc around said tips and subsequently through said electric arc, means for flowing said liquid through a tube surrounding said tips thereby forcing said liquid into an essentially concentrated passage first through the plasma formed by said electric arc around said tips and subsequently through said electric arc, and means for flowing said liquid through an interior of one of said electrodes thereby concentrating the flow of the liquid first through the electric arc and subsequently through the plasma formed by said electric arc around said tips, wherein each of said means for flowing may be one of external and in fluid communication with the vessel to circulate the liquid from inside said vessel back into said vessel and through the plasma and electric arc, and internal to said vessel to circulate the liquid through the plasma and electric arc;
- providing means for collecting a clean burning combustible gas created by said arc acting on said liquid, the gas bubbling through the liquid in the vessel to a gas collection outlet in mechanical fluid communication with the vessel proximate a top of the vessel;
- providing means for removing solids in suspension in said liquid following its passing through said arc, wherein said solids precipitate to the bottom of the vessel for subsequent collection;
- essentially filling the metal vessel with the liquid to be recycled such that the electrode tips are submerged within the liquid;
- commencing the flow of the liquid through the tips of the electrode and initiating the generation of the electric current so as to create the electric arc and subjecting the flowing liquid to said arc, wherein the apparatus is operated at operating electric power settings, pressures, temperatures and flow rates so that the liquid can be one of
- continually circulated and exposed to the plasma and arc until converted to the combustible gas, and
- partially directed out of the vessel for further processing to obtain a reusable liquid, and
- wherein when the liquid is processed to obtain a reusable liquid, further providing filtering means for filtering the liquid following its passage through the arc, said filtering means being in fluid communication with the vessel;
- collecting the clean combustible gas produced by the flowing of the liquid through the arc;
- and
- removing said solids in suspension following its passage through the arc.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.