Abstract:
A device and a method for continuous high-pressure treatment; the method, comprising the steps of increasing the pressure of raw material (25) in a feed tank (9) by a pressurizing pump (1) so as to continuously feed the raw material to treatment containers (6) and (6a) and increasing the flow rate of the pressurizing pump (1) over that of a depressurizing pump (2) or continuously exhausting the raw material from the treatment containers (6) and (6a) through a pressure regulating flow path resistance (59) while depressurizing; the device, comprising pressure releasing bypass circuits (55) disposed in the flow path resistance (59) in parallel with each other, wherein the insides of the treatment containers (6) and (6a) are kept in a specified high-pressure state during the continuous processing.
Abstract:
A flow reactor for liquid-phase polymerization reactions. A liquid reaction mixture containing organic reactant molecules to be polymerized is jetted into a low-temperature high-pressure part (B) from a high-temperature high-pressure part (A) through a circulation line (C) to inhibit the polymer yielded in the part (A) from decomposing in the part (B). The polymer is sent to the part (A) through a circulation line (C) to further cause polymerization. This cycle is repeated. Thus, a reaction such as amino acid polymerization can be conducted in a nonequilibrium open system while regulating the degree of polymerization by controlling polymerization and decomposition.
Abstract:
A production method of water in which ultrafine gold particles on a 1- to 2-digit micron order in size, obtained by subdividing a normal gold fine particle size, are dissolved and which is excellent in physiologically active function such as health promotion; and its applications. A device comprising a pressure vessel provided with a high-pressure water storing tank, an oxygen/hydrogen mixing gas jetting nozzle, an ignition device and a combustion chamber is used to burn an oxygen/hydrogen mixing gas in a high-pressure water in which gold foils are floated, and to heat and melt the gold foils with the mixing gas to thereby produce ultrafine gold particle-dissolved water.
Abstract:
The present invention realized the production of a water product having excellent physiological activity such as health promoting activity and the utilization of the water, in which ultrafine gold particles having a diameter as small as 1-2 figures in micron order, much smaller than any ordinary fine gold particles, are dissolved. According to the present invention, an aqueous ultrafine gold particle solution is produced using an apparatus comprising a pressure-resistant vessel equipped with a high-pressure water tank, a jet nozzle, an ignition device, and a combustion chamber, in which a gas mixture consisting of hydrogen and oxygen is combusted in highly pressurized water, in which gold leaf fragments are suspended, and then the gold leaf fragments are heated and melted by the resulting combustion gas.
Abstract:
Fuel, oxidant and reactant for a supercritical water oxidation reactor are fed through an injector in which the flow is arranged such that the oxidant feed surrounds the fuel feed and shields the fuel feed from the reactant feed. Excessive reactant temperature is thus avoided, and the reaction can proceed in a highly efficient manner.
Abstract:
The invention relates to (1) pressure-mediated dissociation of an analyte complexed with an endogenous binding partner to enable detection of a complex formed from the analyte and an exogenous binding factor, (2) pressure-mediated association of an analyte and an exogenous binding partner to enable more rapid and/or more sensitive detection of an analyte, and (3) pressure-mediated association and dissociation of biomolecular complexes to enable separation of one biomolecule from a complex mixture. Pressure can be used to improve assays by dissociating endogenous analyte complexes and improving assay speed and sensitivity by associating the analyte molecules with exogenously supplied binding partners. Pressure can also be used to improve the separation of compounds from contaminated mixtures.
Abstract:
Enhanced macromixing, mesomixing, and micromixing of multiple discrete reactant streams, particularly for precipitation reactions of low density pumpable fluids, are obtained by controlled continuous high pressure multiple reactant streams flowing into a chemical mixer/reactor (120). Individual reactant streams are pressurized to about 8,000 to 50,000 psi and achieve velocities up to about 250 meters/second in the final stage of the chemical mixer/reactor (120). Reactant flows are controlled by a combination of a fixed restriction and a variable driving pump (102, 102').
Abstract:
A process for thermochemically converting fluid or fluidisable compounds (charge), in particular organic or complex toxic compounds, into low-molecular organic or inorganic compounds, has a preliminary step, during which the energy required for the conversion reaction is generated, and at least one subsequent main step during which the conversion reaction takes place. In the preliminary step, the reaction partners that are subjected to an overpressure and form an exothermic mixture are completely mixed during a mixing phase without being able to react during the mixing phase. Only at the end of the mixing phase both reaction partners react with a high reaction speed and energy density that depend on the overpressure. During the main step of the process, a second mixture to be reacted that consists of the charge and of a reactive receives the energy required for the reaction by being mixed with the reaction products from the first partial reaction that are in a high temperature and pressure state.
Abstract:
A hydrothermal reaction is performed on an aqueous medium without adding an oxidizing agent, and then another hydrothermal reaction is performed in the presence of an oxidizing agent, thereby reducing a chemical oxygen demand of the aqueous medium. An apparatus for performing a hydrothermal reaction has a fluid inlet being capable of introducing an oxidizing agent in a fluid form during a hydrothermal reaction.