Patent ID: 7794678

Claim:
An effluent gas scrubber comprising: an inlet port; a scrubbing fluid reservoir; a first chamber in fluid communication with the inlet port via an inlet pipe; a plunger configured to be extendable through the inlet pipe to remove a deposit on an inner surface of the inlet pipe; a nozzle in the first chamber, in fluid communication with the scrubbing fluid reservoir and oriented to spray fluid from the scrubbing fluid reservoir into the first chamber; a second chamber in fluid communication with the first chamber; a nozzle in the second chamber, in fluid communication with the scrubbing fluid reservoir and oriented to spray fluid from the scrubbing fluid reservoir into the second chamber; a pH probe that measures the pH of a fluid in the scrubbing fluid reservoir and responsive to the measured pH causes an addition of an acid or a base to the fluid; an outlet port in fluid communication with the second chamber; an oxidizer tank; and an oxidation-reduction potential probe that measures the oxidation-reduction potential of fluid in the scrubbing fluid reservoir and responsive to the measured oxidation-reduction potential adds an oxidizer to the fluid.