Claims
- 1. An apparatus for the continuous production of delta singlet oxygen, comprising:
- a reactor;
- a source of chlorine gas;
- means for continuously feeding a mixture of hydrogen peroxide and an alkali-metal hydroxide to said reactor;
- chlorine gas feed means connected to said source for feeding chlorine gas to said reactor;
- means in said reactor for forming an aerosol from said mixture and for directing said aerosol and chlorine gas into mutually impinging relationship in a reaction zone to react said mixture with said chlorine gas and produce said delta singlet oxygen, said means in said reactor for forming an aerosol from said mixture and for directing said aerosol and chlorine gas into mutually impinging relationship in said reaction zone including respective toroidal pipes respectively connected to said means for continuously feeding and to said chlorine gas feed means, said toroidal pipes having respective arrays of nozzles training respective jets of said mixture and said chlorine gas directly against one another; and
- means for recovering said delta singlet oxygen in a delta singlet oxygen stream from said reaction zone of said reactor.
- 2. The apparatus defined in claim 1 wherein the means for recovering said delta singlet oxygen from said reaction zone of said reactor includes means at a top of said reactor for discharging said delta singlet oxygen, said reactor having a bottom provided with means for discharging residual portions of said mixture.
- 3. The apparatus defined in claim 2, further comprising means for recirculating said residual portions of said mixture to a vessel receiving said mixture and feeding said mixture to said means for continuously feeding.
- 4. The apparatus defined in claim 1, wherein said means for continuously feeding comprises a vessel receiving said mixture and feeding said mixture to said reactor, and means for pressurizing said vessel with oxygen gas.
- 5. The apparatus defined in claim 1 wherein said toroidal pipe for supplying said chlorine gas is located below the toroidal pipe feeding said mixture and has upwardly directed nozzles, said toroidal pipe feeding said mixture having downwardly directed nozzles.
- 6. The apparatus defined in claim 1, further comprising means connected to said reactor for collecting residual water vapor and chlorine from the said delta singlet oxygen stream.
- 7. The apparatus defined in claim 6 wherein said means connected to said reactor for collecting residual water vapor and chlorine therefrom includes a vapor condensation trap.
CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
This application is a continuation of Ser. No. 07/511,449 filed Apr. 20, 1990 (now abandoned) as a division of Ser. No. 07/288,403 filed Dec. 21, 1988 (U.S. Pat. No. 4,975,265). That application is related to my then pending applications Ser. No. 07/290,178 filed Dec. 23, 1988 (now U.S. Pat. No. 5,064,809) which was divided (Ser. No. 07/863,390 of Apr. 3, 1992) (U.S. Pat. No. 5,171,732) and which discloses a method of and an apparatus for producing the delta singlet oxygen which is here used to reduce the thickness of the deposited diamond-like carbon layer and also may be used during the deposition of the superconductor layers.
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