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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 18, 2012
Filed:
May. 01, 2008
Zbigniew Zurecki, Macungie, PA (US);
Robert Ellsworth Knorr, Jr., Allentown, PA (US);
John Lewis Green, Palmerton, PA (US);
Zbigniew Zurecki, Macungie, PA (US);
Robert Ellsworth Knorr, Jr., Allentown, PA (US);
John Lewis Green, Palmerton, PA (US);
Air Products and Chemicals, Inc., Allentown, PA (US);
Abstract
A gas injector including in which a gas is passed through high-voltage/low-current electrical discharges before being discharged into the chamber of a thermal treatment furnace. The electrical activation of the gas accelerates desirable reactions between the gas, gases in the furnace chamber, and the chamber workload. Preferably, a hot electrode is electrically charged and the other parts of the gas injector and the furnace are grounded. Also provided is a method for activating an atmosphere within the reaction chamber of a controlled-atmosphere reactor.