| CPC C02F 1/4608 (2013.01) [C02F 1/487 (2013.01); C02F 1/74 (2013.01); H05H 1/24 (2013.01); C02F 2201/005 (2013.01); C02F 2201/009 (2013.01); C02F 2201/46175 (2013.01); C02F 2209/008 (2013.01); C02F 2301/024 (2013.01); C02F 2301/026 (2013.01); C02F 2303/04 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |
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1. A system for flow-through-hydrodynamic-plasma-reactor-based water treatment, comprising:
a housing;
a channel within the housing, the channel comprising an entrance into which water comprising one or more contaminants enters and an exit from which the water exits;
an electrically conductive flow body installed in the channel and which at least some of the water encounters while flowing from the entrance to the exit, wherein the water that encounters the flow body flows around the flow body and creates a zone of turbulence after flowing around the body within which the water is in a two-phase state and comprises bubbles;
an electrode located within the channel between the flow body and the exit;
a pulse generator configured to apply one or more high voltage nanosecond duration pulses to the electrode and to the flow body, wherein the application of at least one of the pulses to the flow body and the electrode initiates an ignition in the zone of turbulence of a volumetric plasma discharge that generates one or more reactive oxygen species and wherein at least some of the contaminants are oxidized upon encountering the reactive oxygen species; and
a plurality of magnets positioned on an outer surface of the housing and configured to apply a magnetic field to the water within the housing, wherein the magnetic field causes a spiral procession of at least some of the reactive oxygen species.
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