Abstract:
An automobile air filter comprising a filter element, an outer hood receiving the filter element, and a plurality of metal electrodes arranged in the filter element. Each pair of the metal electrodes is connected by a cable and pass through the outer hood. A high voltage generator circuit is installed at appropriate location of an automobile for generating instantaneous high voltage to provide instantaneous high voltage power to each pair of metal electrodes, so that the metal electrodes generate high voltage flashes and ozone to purify the air flowing in the filter element and increase oxygen content in the air intake in the engine.
Abstract:
A system for producing ozone at a high efficiency from oxygen or air is described. According to a preferred embodiment of the invention, the system comprises at least two parallel electrodes made of metallic surfaces and separated by dielectric insulating material, wherein air or oxygen is passed through the gap between the electrodes with an electric field of at least 4 kV/mm AC, being characterized by: (a) a ratio of the electrodes-surface area to gas volume of at least 2 cm.sup.2.min/l, said electrode being selected from a horizontal, vertical and plate type tube, and (b) the electric field in the said gap is formed by the difference in potentials between the electrodes and the dielectric insulating material. According to a preferred embodiment the dielectric insulating material has a breakdown voltage of at least 12 kV/mm. Among the main advantages of the system is the small size of the generator and the relatively small amount of energy required per unit of ozone produced.
Abstract:
This invention relates to a novel ozone generator device for the production of high concentrations of ozone by way of a design that permits a process environment that is consonant with the optimum values of hardware and operating variables that thermodynamically favor the production of ozone. The device is characterized by a small corona chamber resulting in a low oxygen retention time, a thermally conductive ducted core permitting circulation of a coolant for cooling the feed oxygen and produced ozone, a spherical corona chamber and electrode geometry promoting a homogeneous high electric field density, operating pressures as high as 2000 psi, free expansion cooling of the oxygen at both the inlet and outlet ports of the device, and the selection of an electrode that ensures the production and maintenance of a homogeneous corona. Also disclosed is a closed-loop ozone generator system wherein unused feed oxygen is recovered and recycled for further processing by the system. Uses of the ozone generator device of this invention is more diverse than uses described in the background by virtue of the increased ozone production of the device over the background art, and includes remediation of biofoulants, biocontaminants, chlorine, chloramines and organic contaminants from drinking and process water, and the removal of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide from flue gases.
Abstract:
A rotary ozonizer has a base, a disk-shaped stationary electrode mounted on the base, and a rotary electrode unit disposed over the stationary electrode in face-to-face relation to form an electric discharge clearance. The rotary electrode unit comprises a plurality of radially outwardly extending arms, and upstanding blades fixed to the radially outer portions of the arms, respectively. When the rotary electrode unit is rotated about a vertical axis by a motor and a high voltage is applied between the electrode and electrode unit, an electric discharge takes place to ozonize the oxygen in said electric discharge clearance, and the thus produced ozone is supplied by the blades out of the ozonizer.
Abstract:
A method of treating liquid waste with ozone by passing the liquid to be treated between complementary horizontal electrodes having therebetween electrically conductive particles so as to form an electrode bed, pulsing air simultaneously with said liquid, and maintaining between said electrodes an electrical potential so that as the air and liquid pass through said electrode bed, the bed expands to establish electrical contact between the electrodes thus to create localized arcing between particles in the bed and to form ozone.
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:
The invention provides a method and apparatus for generating large quantities of singlet oxygen and/or ozone at unexpectedly high efficiencies. An electron beam generated by a hollow cathode plasma discharge device (HCD) is spread by disclosed means over an electron-transmissive window past which is flowing an oxygen-containing atmosphere at a high velocity.
Abstract:
The disclosed system functions to generate ozone with improved efficiency. Oxygen gas is passed through an electric field, and while in the field is irradiated with brief bursts of high energy electrons. This produces a large number of secondary electrons in the gas and these electrons taken energy from the electric field. The secondary electrons efficiently dissociate oxygen molecules from the gas, thereby producing oxygen atoms which immediately combine with oxygen to form ozone. The electric field is pulsed on during the electron beam irradiation, and thereafter pulsed off in order to maximize energy deposition by electrons and minimize energy deposition by ions. The disclosed system may also be used to generate other substances in gas phase ionic or free-radical reactions in which a suitable gas or mixture of gases is passed through the discharge and made to react in it. For example, the system can be used to produce hydrogen peroxide or hydrazine from suitable gas mixtures of H2O + O2 and NH3 + N2, respectively.
Abstract:
Ozone is produced from air or oxygen by passing the same through a channel defined by a first pair of electrodes of opposite polarity and a second pair of such electrodes, the electrodes of the second pair being covered with a dielectric layer, and respective high voltage sources being connected to the electrodes of both pairs.
Abstract:
APPARATUS AND METHOD ARE DISCLOSED FOR HIGH EFFICIENCY ELECTRICAL CONVERSION OF OXYGEN TO OZONE. AN OXYGEN-CONTAINING GAS IS PASSED UPWARDLY THROUGH A PARTICULATE DIELETRIC CONTAINED BETWEEN SPACED ELECTRODE SURFACES, WHEREBY A FLUIDIZED BED IS ESTABLISHED CONSISTING OF A SUSPENSION OF SAID DIELECTRIC PARTICLES IN THE STREAMING GAS. MEANS ARE PRESENT FOR SIMULTANEOUSLY MAINTAINING A SILENT ELECTRICAL DISCHARGE ACROSS THE SPACED ELECTRODES AND THROUGH THE FLUIDIZED BED. THE BED ACTS AS A HIGHLY EFFECTIVE HEAT SINK AND ALSO PROMOTES THE PRESNECE OF HIGH-FREQUENCY COMPONENTS IN THE CURRENT WAVES PASSING BETWEEN ELECTRODES, AS A RESULT OF WHICH INCREASED ELECTRICAL EFFICIENCY AND INCREASED OZONE OUTPUT IS ENABLED IN THE CONVERSION PROCESS.