Process and apparatus for effecting chemical reactions

Claim 1

A CONTINUOUS PROCESS FOR THE MANUFACTURE OF HYDROGEN FLUORIDE AND GENERATION OF POWER FROM THE RESULTING GASES, WHICH COMPRISES SEPARATELY INJECTING HYDROGEN AND FLUORINE UNDER SUPERATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE INTO AT LEAST THE FIRST STAGE OF A COMBINATION GAS TURBINE IN WHICH A MULTI-STAGE REACTION TURBINE SECTION IS FOLLOWED BY AN IMPULSE TURBINE SECTION, A STAGE COMPRISING ALTERNATE SETS OF STATIONARY GAS DIRECTING ELEMENTS AND ROTOR ELEMENTS, EFFECTING CHEMICAL INTERACTION BETWEEN SAID FLUORINE AND SAID HYDROGEN SO AS TO PRODUCE GASEOUS HYDROGEN FLUORIDE IN SUCCESSIVE STAGES OF SAID REACTION TURBINE, TRANSLATING RESULTING GAS PRESSURE IN SAID REACTION TURBINE INTO ROTARY MOVEMENT THEREOF, EXPANDING GASEOUS EFFLUENT FROM SAID REACTION TURBINE INTO SAID IMPULSE TURBINE AND THEREIN TRANSLATING KINETIC ENERGY OF SAID EFFLUENT INTO ROTARY MOVEMENT OF SAID TURBINE, THEREBY RAPIDLY QUENCHING SAID EFFLUENT AND STOPPING FURTHER INTERACTION, AND RECOVERING HYDROGEN FLUORIDE FROM THE TURBINE EFFLUENT.