Patent ID: 8173024

Claim:
A method for conducting a supercritical wet oxidation reaction between at least two reactants within a supercritical reaction vessel having at least one vessel wall for physically containing the reaction, the method comprising: introducing a continuous flow of de-mineralized, supercritical fluid into a primary chamber comprising the at least one vessel wall of the supercritical reaction vessel to form a film-like, clean fluid surface between the reactants and the at least one vessel wall; and commingling the reactants in the primary chamber to form a reaction product wherein the supercritical reaction vessel further comprises a secondary chamber for terminating any forms of precipitation from the reaction product, the secondary chamber defined by at least one vessel wall, and wherein the method further comprises removing the reaction product from the primary chamber to the secondary chamber: and introducing a continuous flow of de-mineralized, supercritical pressurized fluid at atmospheric temperature into the secondary chamber of the supercritical reaction vessel to form a film-like, clean fluid surface between the reactant product and the at least one vessel wall defining the secondary chamber.