摘要 |
An incinerator generally including a combustion chamber, a flue, means for conducting combustion gases emanating from the combustion chamber to the flue, the conducting means including passage means for imparting a curved motion to the combustion gases, means disposed in the passage means for producing a plurality of electrostatic fields including a plurality of sets of spaced electrodes, each set of electrodes producing an electrostatic field through which a portion of the gases traverse, and means disposed either upstream relative to the means for producing a plurality of electrostatic fields, or in conjunction therewith, for ionizing the combustion gases, whereby contaminants including solids and gaseous molecules entrained in the combustion gases will be ionized by the ionizing means and subjected to cooperating centrifugal, electrostatic and gravitational forces as the gases traverse through the passage means to remove the contaminants from the combustion gases.
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