Patent ID: 7118655

Claim:
A process for producing hydrazine with nitrogen and hydrogen as raw materials, comprising the steps of: (A) generating photons from a high-energy laser pulsed source, with pulse energy at least 10 5 J per pulse; (B) passing said photons through a laser amplifier pumped by an arc lamp to produce photons with increased pulsed intensity, with pulse intensities at least 10 11 W/cm 2 ; (C) introducing said intensified pulsed laser photons to excite nitrogen molecules from said nitrogen raw materials through two-photon absorptions so that said nitrogen molecules are induced to make transitions from a ground vibrational state thereof to excited vibrational states; (D) flowing said excited nitrogen molecules to a high-pressure vessel so as to cause effective collisional-mixing leading to a new vibrational energy state; (E) flowing said nitrogen molecules at said new vibrational energy state from said high-pressure vessel to a container containing hydrogen from said hydrogen raw materials which reacts with said new vibrationally excited nitrogen molecules to form hydrazine; and (F) cooling said hydrazine and leading to a liquid form of output.