Treatment of fluorocarbon feedstocks
AssigneeThe South African Nuclear Energy Corporation Limited
InventorIzak Jacobus Van Der Walt
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Abstract
A method of treating a fluorocarbon feedstock includes radio frequency induction heating of a zone of a reaction chamber to a temperature not exceeding 950° C. The feedstock heats up in the heating zone, and the reaction chamber pressure and heating zone temperature are chosen so that a fluorocarbon compound present in the feedstock dissociates or depolymerizes into a more desired fluorocarbon compound. A hot product gas, which includes the more desired fluorocarbon compound, is formed and then quenched to stabilize the more desired fluorocarbon compound.
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A method of treating a fluorocarbon feedstock, which method includes
- heating, by means of radio frequency induction, a heating zone of a reaction chamber to a temperature not exceeding 950EC;
- allowing a fluorocarbon feedstock, comprising at least one fluorocarbon compound, to heat up in the heating zone;
- choosing a reaction chamber pressure and a heating zone temperature so that the fluorocarbon compound dissociates or depolymerizes into at least one more desired fluorocarbon compound;
- forming a hot product gas comprising the more desired fluorocarbon compound;
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- quenching the hot product gas to stabilize the more desired fluorocarbon compound.
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