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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 08, 1994
Filed:
Nov. 25, 1992
Robert L Cowan, II, Livermore, CA (US);
Robert J Law, Livermore, CA (US);
James E Charnley, Gilroy, CA (US);
General Electric Company, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
A passive decomposer operating in the water/steam mixture exiting the core of a boiling water reactor. The decomposer comprises a catalytic material arranged and situated such that substantially all of the water/steam mixture entering the water/steam separator device flows over the surface of the catalytic material. The catalytic decomposing surfaces decompose hydrogen peroxide molecules dissolved in the liquid phase to form water and oxygen molecules. The passive catalytic decomposer is constructed to ensure that the pressure drop of the reactor water across the device is very small. The decomposer can include a plurality of stainless steel flow-through housings packed with stainless steel catalytic decomposer material, which could take the form of tangled wire or strips, crimped ribbon, porous sintered metal composite or any other structure having a high surface area-to-volume ratio.