Fast quench reactor and method

Patent · Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1998

OSTI ID:871537

Detering, Brent A ^[1]; Donaldson, Alan D ^[1]; Fincke, James R ^[1]; Kong, Peter C ^[1]

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1. Idaho Falls, ID

A fast quench reaction includes a reactor chamber having a high temperature heating means such as a plasma torch at its inlet and a restrictive convergent-divergent nozzle at its outlet end. Reactants are injected into the reactor chamber. The resulting heated gaseous stream is then rapidly cooled by passage through the nozzle. This "freezes" the desired end product(s) in the heated equilibrium reaction stage.

• Research Organization: Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: AC07-94ID13223
• Assignee: Lockheed Idaho Technologies Company (Idaho Falls, ID)
• Patent Number(s): US 5749937
• OSTI ID: 871537
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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