With Cooling Or Pressurizing Means Patents (Class 422/186.25)
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Patent number: 8864964Abstract: A system employs a closed electrolyzer vessel into which water is circulated, and an electrode plate assembly is immersed to dissociate water into hydrogen and oxygen gases. Only water is used as the electrolyte fluid. An air injector in the water return line injects air bubbling for enhanced dissociation of water. The electrode plate assembly is formed by one or more unit stacks of 7-plates each, including two outer cathode plates, a middle anode plate, and spaced inner plates. The generated gases are maintained in a stable condition by an electromagnetic coil assembly that separates the hydrogen gas from oxygen gas. The system can obtain 180% reduction in fuel usage in a vehicle engine, and 20 times reduction in carbon exhaust. It can obtain a 500% increase in fuel efficiency in an electrical power generator.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2011Date of Patent: October 21, 2014Assignee: Tasos Inc.Inventor: Tasos Aggelopoulos
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Patent number: 8663571Abstract: A system comprising: a plasma production chamber configured to produce a plasma; a reaction chamber vaporize a precursor material with the plasma to form a reactive mixture; a quench chamber having a frusto-conical surface and a quench region formed within the quench chamber between an ejection port of the reaction chamber and a cooled mixture outlet, wherein the quench region configured to receive the reactive mixture from the ejection port, to cool the reactive mixture to form a cooled mixture, and to supply the cooled mixture to the cooled mixture outlet; and a conditioning fluid injection ring disposed at the ejection port and configured to flow a conditioning fluid directly into the reactive mixture as the reactive mixture flows through the ejection port, thereby disturbing the flow of the reactive mixture, creating turbulence within the quench region and cooling the reactive mixture to form a cooled mixture comprising condensed nanoparticles.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2008Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: SDCmaterials, Inc.Inventors: Maximilian A. Biberger, Frederick P. Layman
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Patent number: 7666950Abstract: The present invention provides a novel process for preparing hydrogenated nitrile rubbers comprising subjecting nitrile rubbers in a spinning disk reactor to hydrogenation. The present process is less demanding with regard to its reaction conditions, like e.g. the hydrogen pressure to be applied, compared to known processes and significantly reduces the cost of the hydrogenation process and in particular the equipment cost.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2007Date of Patent: February 23, 2010Assignee: LANXESS Deutschland GmbHInventors: Christopher M. Ong, Stephen Pask, Sharon Guo, Franz Mersmann
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Patent number: 7407634Abstract: A novel apparatus and method is disclosed for a plasmatron fuel converter (“plasmatron”) that efficiently uses electrical energy to produce hydrogen rich gas. The plasmatron has multiple decoupled gas flow apertures or channels for performing multiple functions including fuel atomization, wall protection, plasma shaping, and downstream mixing. In one aspect, the invention is a plasmatron fuel converter comprising a first electrode and a second electrode separated from the first electrode by an electrical insulator and disposed to create a gap with respect to the first electrode so as to form a discharge region adapted to receive a reactive mixture. A power supply is connected to the first and second electrodes and adapted to provide voltage and current sufficient to generate a plasma discharge within the discharge region. Fluid flows are established in the vicinity of the plasma discharge region by multiple decoupled flow establishing means.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2003Date of Patent: August 5, 2008Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Alexander Rabinovich, Nicolai Alexeev, Leslie Bromberg, Daniel R. Cohn, Andrei Samokhin
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Patent number: 6972118Abstract: Apparatus and method for the industrial production of a new form of hydrogen, oxygen and other gases. The invention includes a pressure resistant piping system filled with a gas compressed to a desired pressure. A magnetic field within the piping system is generated using electric power. The gas is circulated through the electric arc causing the magnetic field.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2001Date of Patent: December 6, 2005Assignee: Hadronic Press, Inc.Inventor: Ruggero Maria Santilli
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Patent number: 6924401Abstract: An apparatus and method for converting methane to methanol by partial oxidation comprises a source of methane, a source of oxygen, and a capillary tube having an outflow end and an inflow end communicating with the sources of methane and oxygen. An anode is positioned proximate to but spaced from the capillary tube. A voltage source negatively biases the capillary tube relative to the anode. A plasma jet flows from the outflow end of the capillary tube. The methane partially oxidizes into methanol in a reaction zone in the plasma jet. A collector receives the methanol in the plasma jet for subsequent condensation, separation and purification.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2003Date of Patent: August 2, 2005Assignee: California Institute of TechnologyInventors: Konstantinos P. Giapis, R. Mohan Sankaran, Sean McHugh
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Patent number: 6881386Abstract: A novel apparatus and method is disclosed for a plasmatron fuel converter (“plasmatron”) that efficiently uses electrical energy to produce hydrogen rich gas. The volume and shape of the plasma discharge is controlled by a fluid flow established in a plasma discharge volume. A plasmatron according to this invention produces a substantially large effective plasma discharge volume allowing for substantially greater volumetric efficiency in the initiation of chemical reactions within a volume of bulk fluid reactant flowing through the plasmatron.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2002Date of Patent: April 19, 2005Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyInventors: Alexander Rabinovich, Nikolai Alexeev, Leslie Bromberg, Daniel R. Cohn, Andrei Samokhin
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Patent number: 6645438Abstract: A method and apparatus for producing fullerenes, in large quantities at an economical cost, from liquid and gaseous hydrocarbons treated by a high energy source in a reactor devoid of oxygen are presented. The liquid hydrocarbons preferably selected from used hazardous materials such as used motor oils, oils, crude petroleum or petroleum cracking by-products, and the gaseous hydrocarbons such as methane and acetylene, are introduced into the oxygen deprived reactor and exposed to a high energy source which may be a plasma jet, a laser beam or a submerged electrical arc. Exposure to the high energy source causes the hydrocarbon atoms to disassociate, thereby converting the liquid and gaseous components into a vapor or cloud of mixed material. The vapor or cloud is then processed to enable the liberated carbon atoms to bind and recombine to form fullerenes. The cloud is then introduced into a condensation zone of said reactor to form a mixture of fullerenes, solid soot and residue gases.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2000Date of Patent: November 11, 2003Assignee: New Jersey Institute of TechnologyInventor: Roman Dubrovsky
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Patent number: 6391259Abstract: A frame-type ozone generator (242) has a plurality of elongated electrodes (201, 202) deployed in substantially parallel, spaced relation to each other so as to form a substantially flat electrode array, and a flow generator (241) for generating a flow of oxygen containing gas through the electrode array in a direction substantially perpendicular to the electrode array. Each of the electrodes is formed from an electrically conductive core (211) covered with polyvinyl-difluoride (212). Preferably, each electrode array is arranged within a frame (206) of a given area. Also disclosed are an apparatus for treating a product with ozone-containing gas in which pressure-waves are used to enhance effectiveness of the ozone treatment, and a two-chamber batch method for implementing treatment of a product with possibly harmful gases such as ozone.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 1998Date of Patent: May 21, 2002Assignee: Ozontech Ltd.Inventors: Boris Malkin, Gena Perlov, Shmuel Yannai