Patent ID: 6222153
Filing Date: 2001-04-24
Classification: A62D,F23G,Y10S

Abstract:
A method for the incineration of a fluid or fluidizable material by a pulsed plasma, said method comprising:(a) introducing said material into a closed chamber having an exit port; and(b) generating a plasma by ignition within said chamber thereby producing a flow of said plasma which incinerates said fluid material,said plasma being produced by a confined discharge in said closed chamber which contains an ablating material, wherein:(i) the plasma temperature is in the range of from about 1 eV to about 5 eV;(ii) the plasma density is higher than about 10.sup.-5 g/cm.sup.3 ; and In re of WALD=1(iii) the plasma jet velocity is higher than about 2 km/s, so as to ensure that a major fraction of the energy transfer from the plasma to said fluid or fluidizable material is by radiation,characterized in that the spectrum of the photon wavelength radiation of said pulsed plasma encompasses the chemical bond energy range of said fluid or fluidizable material.