US 12,473,211 B2
System and method of decomposing fluidic product having particles
Kotaro Hirayama, Tokyo (JP); Isamu Umeda, Tokyo (JP); and Sojiro Kimura, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to DHF AMERICA, LLC., Raleigh, NC (US)
Appl. No. 17/596,806
Filed by DHF AMERICA, LLC., Raleigh, NC (US)
PCT Filed Jun. 24, 2020, PCT No. PCT/US2020/039259
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 17, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/263905, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 30, 2020.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/865,620, filed on Jun. 24, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0212954 A1, Jul. 7, 2022
Int. Cl. C02F 1/04 (2023.01); C02F 1/00 (2023.01); H05B 6/06 (2006.01); H05B 6/10 (2006.01)
CPC C02F 1/043 (2013.01) [C02F 1/008 (2013.01); C02F 1/048 (2013.01); H05B 6/06 (2013.01); H05B 6/108 (2013.01); C02F 2209/02 (2013.01); C02F 2301/024 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method of converting a fluidic product having a plurality of particles into a treated product by decomposing the plurality of particles, the method comprising:
inductively heating the fluidic product at a first predetermined temperature using a first heating induction coil while flowing the fluidic product through a temperature rising portion having a first heating region formed of at least one metal pipe in such a manner that the at least one metal pipe of the temperature rising portion functions as a first flow path for the fluidic product;
cooling the first heating induction coil by flowing a refrigerant through a first refrigerant passage connected to the first heating induction coil;
holding a temperature of the fluidic product at approximately the first predetermined temperature for a predetermined reaction period by inductively heating a temperature holding portion using a second heating induction coil, while flowing the fluidic product through the temperature holding portion having a second heating region formed of at least one metal pipe in such a manner that the at least one metal pipe of the temperature holding portion functions as a second flow path for the fluidic product;
cooling the second heating induction coil by flowing the refrigerant through a second refrigerant passage connected to the second heating induction coil, wherein the first refrigerant passage and the second refrigerant passage are different;
wherein the at least one metal pipe in the temperature rising portion and the at least one metal pipe in the temperature holding portion each include a plurality of lumens, at least one of said plurality of lumens including the fluidic product and at least one of said plurality of lumens including a static mixer; and
decomposing the plurality of particles in the fluidic product while flowing the fluidic product through the temperature rising portion and the temperature holding portion during the predetermined reaction period.