Patent ID: 6045761
Filing Date: 2000-04-04
Classification: B01D,B01J,C07C,Y02C,Y02P

Abstract:
Apparatus for converting at least one greenhouse gas into a chemically or industrially utilizable substance or into a chemically or industrially utilizable mixture of substances,(a) comprising at least one 1.sup.st electric reactor (4) for energetically exciting the at least one greenhouse gas, which can be fed on the input side to the at least one 1.sup.st reactor (4), and(b) comprising at least one thermal reactor (14) in effective connection with the at least one 1.sup.st electric reactor (4), characterized(c) in that the 15' reactor (4) and the thermal reactor (14) are combined in a hybrid reactor,(d) in that the hybrid rector has at least 2 adjacent reaction chambers (19),(e) in that at least one a.c. voltage electrode (17', 18') is disposed in each reaction chamber (19), in such a way that the a.c. voltage electrodes (17', 18') of pairs of immediately adjacent reaction chambers (19) are connected to opposite terminals of an a.c. voltage source (7),(f) in that the walls of the reaction chambers (19) comprise at least one catalytic material, and(g) in that said a.c. voltage electrodes (17', 18') connected to opposite terminals of an a.c. voltage source (7) are separated from one another by a dielectric barrier.