Patent ID: 8906316

Claim:
A particle production system, comprising: a particle production reactor configured to produce a reactive particle-gas mixture from a precursor material and a working gas; a quench chamber with a fluid inlet, a reactive mixture inlet fluidly coupled to the particle production reactor, and a cooled mixture outlet, wherein the quench chamber is configured to receive a conditioning fluid at the fluid inlet, to receive the reactive particle-gas mixture from the particle production reactor at the reactive mixture inlet, and to mix the conditioning fluid with the reactive particle-gas mixture to produce a cooled particle-gas mixture, the cooled particle-gas mixture comprising a plurality of precursor material particles and an output fluid, the output fluid including the conditioning fluid; a filter element fluidly coupled to the cooled mixture outlet and configured to receive and filter the output fluid from the quench chamber to produce a filtered output; a temperature control module fluidly coupled to the filter element and configured to control the temperature of the filtered output to produce a temperature-controlled, filtered output, wherein the temperature-controlled, filtered output comprises a primary fluid and a secondary fluid; a content ratio control module fluidly coupled to the temperature control module and configured to modulate a content ratio of the temperature-controlled, filtered output to produce a content-controlled, temperature-controlled, filtered output, wherein the content ratio is the ratio of the primary fluid to the secondary fluid; and a channeling element fluidly coupling the content ratio control module to the fluid inlet of the quench chamber, and configured to supply the content-controlled, temperature-controlled, filtered output to the fluid inlet of the quench chamber, wherein the content-controlled, temperature-controlled, filtered output is provided to the quench chamber as the conditioning fluid.