Decontaminated fluids and biocidal liquids
First Claim
1. A method for producing a purified or decontaminated fluid or a biocidal liquid with a finite activity duration, the method comprising the steps of aerating or sparging a liquid (17) with a gas, the sparging being such as to provide a suspension of gaseous bubbles (17A) within the body of the liquid, and subjecting the sparged liquid to a pulsed electrical field having a magnitude sufficiently high to create ionisation activity in the gas bubbles (17A).
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Abstract
There is disclosed a method for the purification or decontaminating of contaminated a gased and liquids and for the production of biocidal liquids that have a finite activity period. The method comprising the steps of aerating or sparging a liquid (17) with a gas such as to provide a suspension of bubbles (17A) within the body of the liquid, and then subjecting the aerated or sparged liquid to a pulsed electrical field having a magnitude sufficiently high to create ionisation activity in the gas bubbles (17A).
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- 1. A method for producing a purified or decontaminated fluid or a biocidal liquid with a finite activity duration, the method comprising the steps of aerating or sparging a liquid (17) with a gas, the sparging being such as to provide a suspension of gaseous bubbles (17A) within the body of the liquid, and subjecting the sparged liquid to a pulsed electrical field having a magnitude sufficiently high to create ionisation activity in the gas bubbles (17A).
- 16. Apparatus for producing purified or decontaminated fluid or a biocidal liquid, the apparatus comprising a means (11) for delivering a flow of liquid to a mixer device, a means of delivering a flow of gas to the mixer device (12), the mixer device (12) being arranged to aerate or sparge the liquid with the gas such as to provide a suspension of gas bubbles within the body of the liquid, an exposure chamber (14) for receiving the aerated or sparged liquid (17) and arranged to subject the liquid to a pulsed electric field having a magnitude sufficiently high to create ionisation activity in the gas bubbles, and means (15) for receiving treated liquid from the exposure chamber (14).
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