Patent ID: 7160521

Claim:
An effluent treatment reactor to treat an effluent exhausted from a process chamber, the effluent treatment reactor comprising: (a) an effluent inlet to receive the effluent from the process chamber; (b) a plasma cell comprising tubular electrodes capable of being electrically biased to couple energy to effluent received in the plasma cell, at least one electrode embedded in a dielectric, and a fluid film inlet adapted to provide a fluid film over a surface of at least one electrode in the plasma cell while power is coupled between the electrodes through the fluid film and the dielectric; (c) a scrubbing cell coaxially exterior to the plasma cell, the scrubbing cell comprising a scrubbing fluid inlet to introduce scrubbing fluid into effluent received in the scrubbing cell and a scrubbing fluid outlet; and (d) an effluent outlet to release the treated effluent.