United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority

Aea Technology Inc.

Keith H Bayliss

David Raybone

Christopher N Griffiths

Stephen Ivor Hall

John Sydney Carlow

John Stedman

Michael R Osborne

A corona discharge reactor which has a central electrode in the form of a metal rod with radial projections and a cylindrical outer electrode surrounding the inner electrode.

Corona discharge reactor

A light source including a gaseous medium which is excited to a light-emitting state by means of a microwave electromagnetic field, wherein the electromagnetic field is generated by circularly polarised microwave radiation. A preferred form of the invention is a laser.

Plasma light source

Gas activation

A method of removing particulate and other materials from the exhaust gases from an internal combustion engine in which the exhaust gas is passed through a bed of charged ferro-electric materials. Three forms of apparatus for carrying out the method are described.

Exhaust gas purification

A microwave plasma generator including a chamber within which there is a pair of opposed field-enhancing electrodes one of which has an axial hole through which gas which has been activated into a plasma state in the region between the electrodes can be extracted from the chamber.

Plasma generator with field-enhancing electrodes

A method of and apparatus for removing organic material from a gas. The method comprises the operation of subjecting the gas to pulses of circularly polarised microwave radiation and the apparatus comprises a reaction chamber through which the gas can be passed, means for generating circularly polarised microwave radiation and means for applying the circularly polarised microwave radiation to the gas in the reaction chamber.

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Bridgnorth, United Kingdom

Keith H Bayliss