Patent ID: 8162295

Claim:
A convective flow ventilated reaction vessel assembly comprising: a vessel for containing a liquid phase and a gas phase; said gas phase is segmented into a gas intake passage and a gas venting passage, the two passages connected only at said liquid phase; said gas intake passage for allowing a gas to flow from outside the vessel into the gas phase in the vessel; a stirring means for stirring the liquid phase, and causing the gas phase in the gas intake passage to be continuously mixed into the liquid phase to form gas bubbles therein; said gas venting passage for allowing the gas bubbles in the liquid phase to vent from the vessel without passing through the gas phase of the gas intake passage; wherein the two gas passages create a net pressure differential between the gas phase in the vessel and an outside atmosphere, and wherein the pressure differential causes convective flow of a gas into and out of the vessel through the two gas passages.