Patent ID: 7927565

Claim:
A nozzle reactor system of the type useable to inject a first material and a second material to cause interaction between the first material and the second material, the nozzle reactor system comprising: a first nozzle reactor, the first nozzle reactor comprising in combination: a reactor body having an interior reactor chamber with an injection end and an ejection end; an injection passage mounted in the nozzle reactor in material injecting communication with the interior reactor chamber, the injection passage having (a) an enlarged volume injection section, an enlarged volume ejection section, and a reduced volume mid-section intermediate the enlarged volume injection section and enlarged volume ejection section, (b) a material injection end, and (c) a material ejection end in injecting communication with the interior reactor chamber; and a material feed passage penetrating the reactor body and being (a) adjacent to the material ejection end of the injection passage and (b) transverse to an injection passage axis extending from the material injection end to the material ejection end in the injection passage; wherein the material ejection end of the injection passage has a material ejection end diameter, the injection end of the interior reactor chamber has an injection end diameter, and the material ejection end diameter is smaller than the infection end diameter; a second nozzle reactor, the second nozzle reactor comprising in combination: a reactor body having an interior reactor chamber with an injection end and an ejection end; an injection passage mounted in the nozzle reactor in material injecting communication with the interior reactor chamber, the injection passage having (a) an enlarged volume injection section, an enlarged volume ejection section, and a reduced volume mid-section intermediate the enlarged volume injection section and enlarged volume ejection section, (b) a material injection end, and (c) a material ejection end in injecting communication with the interior reactor chamber; and a material feed passage penetrating the reactor body and being (a) adjacent to the material ejection end of the injection passage and (b) transverse to an injection passage axis extending from the material injection end to the material ejection end in the injection passage; wherein the material ejection end of the injection passage has a material election end diameter, the injection end of the interior reactor chamber has an injection end diameter, and the material ejection end diameter is smaller than the injection end diameter; and a first separation unit in fluid communication with the interior reactor chamber ejection end of the first nozzle reactor, the first separation unit comprising: a light stream outlet; and a heavy stream outlet in fluid communication with the material feed passage of the second nozzle reactor.