Abstract:
The present invention discloses an ozone generator with reduced NOx comprising an air stream generating device; a drying device; an electrical field generating unit; a high-voltage generating device; and a cooling device. The flow velocity of the air stream in the ozone generating area can be increased by the air stream generating device up to 700 s.c.c.m. The temperature in the ozone generating area can be lowered by the cooling system to lower than 10° C. The amount of NOx produced by the disclosed ozone generator can be reduced substantially.
Abstract:
A plate-type ozonizer capable of suppressing the deformation of plate discharging cells and securing a high ozone-generating efficiency where a high-concentration and high-pressure ozone gas is to be generated. An ozonizer body 10, in which a plurality of discharging; cells 11 are stacked one above the other, is housed in a pressure vessel 20. The pressure vessel 20 is supplied with a pressurized gas having a pressure equal to or almost equal to that of the raw material gases which are supplied to said discharging cells 11. Thus there is little or no differential pressure between the inside and the outside of the discharging cells 11 and therefore the discharging cells 11 are not subject to being deformed by unequal inner and outer pressure forces. A dried gas is used as the pressurized gas to prevent also a poor insulation due to a dewing.
Abstract:
An ozone generation cell operating by corona discharge in an annular passage with regions of corona discharge alternating with corona-free regions where cooling takes place is improved by the incorporation of corrugated, deformable heat transfer walls in the corona-free regions. These corrugated walls impart flexibility to the structure, and thereby relieve the strain on the structural components. This permits the heat transfer wall, which is the outer of the two cylinders defining the annular passage, to center the inner of the two cylinders inside it and thus achieve a more uniform gap width in the corona regions. This is of value since the inner cylinder is preferably made of a ceramic material and not perfectly straight. The corrugations also promote turbulent flow in both the coolant medium and the gas mixture in which the ozone is generated.
Abstract:
An ozone generator for producing ozone at pressures of up to 10,000 psi from oxygen or oxygen containing gas, which contains two electrodes for forming a corona discharge through the input gas, the first electrode being cooled by a first cooling fluid and the second electrode being cooled by a second cooling fluid, which further contains flexible barrier means for equalizing the pressure between the cooling fluids and the input gas.
Abstract:
An ozone generator is set forth wherein the production of ozone is increased by the more efficient cooling of the generator electrodes and therefore the discharge gap where the ozone forms. The cooling is effected by the use of a boiling coolant fluid which has a high heat transfer capacity. Additionally the electrode structure is made more rigid for increased life in the presence of boiling cooling fluid. A method of ozone preparation is also set forth. Alternately cooling can be enhanced by the introduction of a gas into the coolant to enhance coolant turbulence without boiling the coolant.
Abstract:
A cell or apparatus for treating a fluid by electron emission as the fluid is passed through a space between a dielectric layer located on a surface of a first electrode and a second electrode and as the electrodes are operated by an attached, appropriate circuit to cause electron emission within the space can be constructed so as to improve the efficiency of the cell or apparatus and so as to promote the amount of time which the dielectric layer may be used without breakdown. In constructing a cell or apparatus for this purpose cooling jackets are provided for circulating cooling fluids in contact with the surfaces of these electrodes remote from one another. In accordance with the disclosure the pressures of the fluids used in the cooling jackets and the fluid passing through the space of the apparatus or cell are regulated so as to maintain the electrical characteristics of the cell or apparatus substantially constant. This improves the efficiency of the circuit used to power the cell. In achieving such regulation the pressures are also preferably regulated so that there is substantially no deflection or movement of the dielectric layer. This minimizes the chances of such dielectric layer breaking down.
Abstract:
A housing has an interior casing receiving a coolant. This casing is associated with a forced cooling system and has open ended tubular portions therethrough formed of electrically conducting metal. Glass ozone generating tubes are removably supported in the tubular portions by axial movement and are held in spaced ozone generating position by spacers on the tubes. The tubes have an electrically conducting silver coating on the interior surface and have an interior band engageable with the coating for admitting high voltage to the tube from a conductor leading into the tube. A treatment tank associated with the ozone generating system has a recirculating conduit operably connected with the housing for the ozone generating tubes. An additional conduit extends from the treatment tank to a storage tank and a filter for filtering out coagulated material is provided in this conduit.
Abstract:
High frequency tubular ozonizer in which one common housing contains several ozonizing elements, each of these elements having a high voltage and a low voltage electrode, both embodied in the form of coaxially disposed pipes coated with a dielectric material on the side of the reaction zone and provided with a circulation cooling liquid. Cooling efficiency is increased by providing a core fitted in the expanded portion of each of the high voltage electrodes, whereas each low voltage electrode is made of two coaxially arranged pipes with the cooling liquid circulating between the pipes. The ends of the high voltage tubular electrodes of the ozonizing elements are secured in the walls of manifolds which serve as admitting and discharging conduits for the cooling liquid. The ozonizer of the invention exhibits increased output of 50-100 times and when so constructed drastically reduces capital investment.
Abstract:
An improved ozone generator formed from two groups of spaced, interleaved, relatively small reactor plates in a housing. Each of the plates is cooled by a coolant passing through the interior thereof. The coolant is a refrigerant flowing through a refrigeration system for which the plates define the evaporator. Each plate has a ceramic outer coating which provides a dielectric therefor and protects the plate from corrosion. Improved support means for each group of plates includes a pair of tubular mounts formed from fittings which convey the refrigerant to internal passages in the plates, provide the electrical connections thereto, and permit the plates to be coupled together as a modular unit so that the plates can be leak-tested before being placed in the housing. Improved fluid distribution means is provided at the inlet and outlet ends of the housing to assure uniform flow of air into the housing and uniform flow of air and ozone out of the housing.
Abstract:
An improved ozone generator includes a cryogenically cooled reaction chamber in which gaseous oxygen well below the boiling point of ozone is subjected to a corona discharge and forms liquid ozone. The discharge portion of the reaction chamber holds a body of liquid ozone to block the flow of unreacted oxygen from the reaction chamber. A bed of glass particles within the body of liquid helps to suppress explosive decomposition of the ozone. A temperature gradient across the discharge portion of the reaction chamber permits the ozone to volatilize to a gas and exit the reaction chamber in a smooth, controllable manner.