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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 14, 2012
Filed:
Sep. 30, 2008
Mohamed Emam Labib, Princeton, NJ (US);
Stanislav S. Dukhin, Goldens Bridge, NY (US);
Joseph J. Murawski, Plainfield, NJ (US);
Yacoob Tabani, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Ching-yue Lai, Pennington, NJ (US);
Mohamed Emam Labib, Princeton, NJ (US);
Stanislav S. Dukhin, Goldens Bridge, NY (US);
Joseph J. Murawski, Plainfield, NJ (US);
Yacoob Tabani, Basking Ridge, NJ (US);
Ching-Yue Lai, Pennington, NJ (US);
Princeton Trade & Technology, Inc., Princeton, NJ (US);
Abstract
The narrow diameter channel has a diameter of about 0.02 centimeter to about 1.6 centimeters and a length of about 0.75 meter to about 5 meters. The internal surface of the narrow diameter channel is hydrophobic, and the surface flow entities exhibit an advancing contact angle of greater than 50 degrees and a receding contact angle of greater than zero degree. The detachment of contaminants from the internal surface of the narrow diameter channel is produced by a sweeping of the internal surface of the narrow diameter channel with the three-phase contact lines of the surface flow entities, the cleaning medium is not predispersed in the gas before entering the channel, and less that 10% of the surface of the channel is covered by a contiguous annular film.