Patent ID: 6687279
Filing Date: 2004-02-03
Classification: C01B,C01D,F41H,H01S

Abstract:
A chemical oxygen-iodine laser system coupled to a source of potassium hydroxide, molecular chlorine gas, hydrogen peroxide, molecular iodine gas, and molecular nitrogen gas, wherein the system produces spent water, spent aqueous basic hydrogen peroxide, and spent laser exhaust gas comprising molecular oxygen, molecular nitrogen, molecular chlorine, molecular iodine, and molecular water, comprising:a first collection system for collecting an amount of spent basic hydrogen peroxide comprised of an amount of spent aqueous potassium chloride or spent aqueous potassium iodide; a second collection system for collecting an amount of the spent laser exhaust gas; a first processing system in fluid communication with the second collection system, wherein the first processing system receives the spent laser exhaust gas from the second collection system and separates the spent molecular oxygen gas from the spent molecular nitrogen gas; a second processing system in fluid communication with the first processing system, wherein the second processing system receives the amount of spent aqueous potassium chloride or spent aqueous potassium iodide from the first collection system and converts the spent aqueous potassium chloride or the spent aqueous potassium iodide into a substance selected from the group consisting of molecular hydrogen, molecular chlorine, aqueous potassium hydroxide, and combinations thereof; a third processing system in fluid communication with the first and second processing systems, wherein the molecular oxygen gas from the first processing system is combined with a substance selected from the group consisting of the spent water, the molecular hydrogen from the second processing system, or combinations thereof to form hydrogen peroxide; and a mixing system for mixing the hydrogen peroxide from the third processing system with the aqueous potassium hydroxide from the second processing system to form basic hydrogen peroxide.