Patent ID: 8551257
Filing Date: 2013-10-08
Classification: B08B,C11D,D06F

Abstract:
1. A cleaning system comprising: a supercritical fluid vessel containing a supercritical noble gas; a reaction vessel fluidly coupled to the supercritical fluid vessel and configured to receive and clean an article of manufacture using the supercritical noble gas from the supercritical fluid vessel; a control unit configured to generate supercritical noble gas in the supercritical fluid vessel and to transfer the supercritical noble gas to the reaction vessel; a separator vessel fluidly coupled to the reaction vessel and configured to decompress the supercritical noble gas to a non-supercritical state and to separate the non-supercritical noble gas from one or more contaminants, wherein the separator vessel includes a gas outlet and a solids/liquids outlet; and a cooling vessel directly fluidly coupled to the gas outlet of the separator vessel and having cooling components configured to cool the non-supercritical noble gas from the gas outlet into a liquid state.