A METHOD AND REACTOR FOR THERMAL DECOMPOSITION OF WATER

摘要

The invention relates to a method for thermal decomposition of water, wherein hydrogen and oxygen are centrifugally separated in the high-temperature plasma reactor with the preferably tungsten cylindrical housing (1) that holds a number of tungsten and ceramic components (3, 6, 7, 8), and the entire assembly is interconnected with connecting and sealing agents, wherein a thermolysis process is conducted under a preferably high pressure and at high temperature over 27000C generated by the electric arc, high-frequency field effect, or the heating element that may be a tungsten rod or a flow through a pipe inside the reactor of helium heated up in a nuclear reactor, which method is supported by the vortex phenomenon and the large centrifugal force occurring therein, as well as 1 : 15 ratio of hydrogen and oxygen respective specific gravities at their separation in the reactor's hot zone. According to the invention the components of the reactor in its various embodiments are serially cooled by water pumped under high pressure, first through the internal electrode (4), and then through the tungsten heat exchanger (6) where the water converts to steam, which further cools the reactor's remaining part, then the steam is partially decompressed in the nozzle (11) and whirling at the high speed in the heat source effect zone the steam converts to plasma and the large centrifugal forces separate the process gases. The invention relates also to a plasma reactor used in the method according to the invention.