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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 23, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 03, 2023
The Government of the United States of America, As Represented BY the Secretary of the Navy, Arlington, VA (US);
Scott G. Walton, Fairfax, VA (US);
William A. Maza, Silver Spring, MD (US);
Michael J. Johnson, Annapolis, MD (US);
David R. Boris, Annandale, VA (US);
Vanessa M. Breslin, Branford, CT (US);
Grant C. Daniels, Burke, VA (US);
Robert B. Balow, Mount Ranier, MD (US);
Abstract
Apparatus and method for decontaminating both contaminated waters and sorbent filter media, either separately or simultaneously, in a single system. Contaminants in a liquid flowing through a reaction chamber are removed by first generating a plasma within the liquid in the chamber, with the contaminants being broken into smaller particles at the interfaces between the generated plasma and the liquid. The combined plasma-liquid solution is then passed through a solid filter, which captures the smaller contaminant particles to decontaminate the liquid. To decontaminate the filter media, plasma flows through the filter material without the presence of liquid, the plasma reacting with the filter material to remove contaminants previously adsorbed by the filter.