Plasma reactor
AssigneeMonolith Materials, Inc.
InventorsPeter L. Johnson, Robert J. Hanson, Roscoe W. Taylor
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Abstract
A method of making carbon black. Such method is described including generating a plasma by subjecting a plasma gas to a plasma arc, mixing a feedstock material with the plasma gas and combining the mixture in a reactor at a given reactor temperature to produce carbon black, wherein the feedstock is mixed with the plasma gas outside of the area occupied by the plasma arc. The carbon black produced by such process is also described.
Claims4
A method of making carbon black comprising generating a torch plasma by subjecting a plasma gas to a plasma arc, mixing a feedstock material with the plasma gas and combining the mixture in a reactor at a given reactor temperature to produce carbon black, wherein the torch plasma is generated in a first plasma chamber area, and the feedstock is mixed with the plasma gas in a second reactor chamber area separated from the first plasma chamber area by a third restricted area which causes turbulent mixing of the feedstock with the torch plasma in the second reactor chamber area resulting in reduced and substantial elimination of reactor wall and torch fouling.
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