High energy electron treatment of water

Claim 1

AN APARATUS FOR INCREASING THE THICKNESS OF WATER AND WATER-BORNE SLUDGE WHICH MAY BE PENETRATED BY ELECTRONS OF A GIVEN ENERGY AND FOR THE OPTIMIZATION OF THE RADIO-CHEMICAL AND RADIO-BIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF SUCH PENETRATION BY SUCH ELECTRONS ON SUCH WATER AND WATER-BORNE SLUDGE, INCLUDING AT LEAST ONE MACHINE SOURCE OF A CONTINOUS BEAM OF ELECTRONS, A METAL ENCLOSED REGION ADAPTED TO RECEIVE THE WATER AND WATERBORNE SLUDGE AND TRANSIT THE WATER AND WATER -BORNE SLUDGE THEREFROM, MEANS FOR INJECTING AN OXYGEN CONTAINING A GAS INTO THE METAL ENCLOSED REGION AT A RATE SUFFICIENT TO DIMINISH THE AVERAGE DENSITY OF THE WATER AND WATER-BORNE SLUDGE BY AT LEAST A FACTOR OF TWO AND TO AUGMENT THAT PERCENTAGE OF THE TOTAL CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND OF THE WATER AND WATER-BORNE SLUDGE PRESENT IN WATER AND WATER-BORNE SLUDGE MIXTURE WHICH IS SUPPLIED BY AVAILABLE OXYGEN, A CONSTRICTED REGION WHOSE CROSS-SECTION PERPENDICULAR TO THE DIRECTION OF WATER FLOW IS GENERALLY A NARROW BUT EXTENDED RECTANGLE, AT LEAST ONE EXETENDED SIDE THEREOF BEING FORMED OF A THIN METAL WALL, THE NON-EXTENDED SIDES THEREOF BEING OF A LENGTH LESS THAN THE MAXIMUM RANGE OF THE ELECTRONS EMITTED BY THE MACHINE SOURCE IN THE GAS CONTAINING WATER, AND MEANS FOR INJECTING THE HIGH ENERGY ELECTRONS THROUGH THE THIN WALLED REGIONS SUBSTANTIALLY UNIFORMLY ALONG THE LENGTH DIMENSION THEREOF AND INTO THE GAS CONTANING WATER, THE PENETRATION OF THE ELECTRONS INTO SAID GAS CONTAINING WATER BEING INCREASED BY AT LEAST A FACTOR OF TWO OVER THAT POSSIBLE IN THE WATER ALONE, THE GEOMETRY OF THE CONSTRICTED REGION AND THE DISTRIBUTION AND ENERGY OF THE INJECTED ELECTRONS BEING SUCH THAT THE ABSORBED ENERGY THROUGHOUT THE GAS CONTAINING WATER IS WITHIN A FACTOR OF TWO OF THE AVERAGE ABSORBED ENERGY, AND THE RADIATION EFFECT OF THE ELECTRONS BEING OPTIMIZED BY THE PRESENCE OF SUFFICIENT OXYGEN.