Patent ID: 6673322
Filing Date: 2004-01-06
Classification: B01J,C01B,C10G,C10L,H05H,Y02E

Abstract:
An apparatus for the production of a clean burning combustible gas comprising:an enclosed pressure resistant reactor chamber housing a pair of electrodes and being substantially filled with a liquid; an electric power supply for generating an underliquid arc between said pair of electrodes in said enclosed chamber; means for initiating, maintaining and optimizing said arc; means for continuously circulating and concentrating a flow of said liquid directly through said arc between said pair of electrodes; and means for recovering from said enclosed chamber a combustible gas produced by said underliquid arc, wherein an inlet to said means for recovering said gas is located above a top surface of said liquid so as to collect the gas as it bubbles to the top of the liquid, wherein said arc decomposes the molecules of said liquid resulting in a plasma of atoms and their combinations exposed to intense electric and magnetic fields existing at atomic distances from said arc, wherein said flow of said liquid directly through said arc continuously removes said plasma from said arc, wherein following said removal of said plasma from the arc, said plasma cools down in said liquid resulting in a clean burning combustible gas, wherein said flow of the liquid through said arc minimizes the recombination of hydrogen and oxygen into water caused by the arc itself thereby increasing the efficiency of said apparatus, wherein said flow of the liquid through said arc minimizes the oxidation of carbon monoxide into carbon dioxide caused by the arc itself thereby increasing the efficiency of said apparatus and improving the environmental properties of said gas, wherein the flow of said liquid trough said arc cools to electrodes thereby increasing the useful life of the electrodes, wherein said flow of said liquid trough the arc exposes said liquid to intense electric and magnetic fields existing at atomic distances from the arc.