Corona cell for nitrogen and other reactions

Abstract

Abstract A concentric-electrode type of electric chemical reactor cell using high voltages of A.C. current between a central wire and an outer insulated metallic cylinder, such as in an ozone generator, is adapted for achieving higher energy gas state chemical reactions by the use of higher voltages and fields thereby producing chemically reactive ionized species which are unattainable and undesirable from the standard ozone generator. The A.C. voltage between the electrodes is provided with a D.C. bias of such amplitude as to insure periods of time when there is a greater number of ions in the cell having a charge that is of the same electric sign as the sign on the central ionizing wire for the chemical advantage of reacting that ionized species when the reacting species is more chemically reactive in its ionized form than in its electrically neutral form, and finally the capacitive reactance of the cell is made part of a resonant circuit with the secondary of the current supply transformer to insure a favorable power factor and efficient operation.

Inventors

• 👤 Louis Richard O'hare

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