Metal, Nonmetal, Energy and Energy Carrier Production by Plasma Arc Electrolytic Centrifugal Conversion

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Abstract

The new plasma arc electrolytic centrifugal conversion process is intended to reduce material consumption, time and energy costs when producing various products represented by metals, nonmetals and energy carriers. The task is accomplished through combining the metallurgical, chemical and energy production into an integral production facility. All polluting emissions associated today with the metallurgical, chemical and energy sectors serve as reagents for the new process and are used for manufacture of useful products sent to the market. Energy saving substance separation requires concentration of the maximum possible amount of various chemical elements in the melting area; they serve as catalysts reducing the reaction energy consumption. The energy production and consumption processes are closed loop with the generated reagents redistributed among the production areas and reversed for recycling what allows low potential heat retaining from losses to the environment. As of today, thermal and nuclear power stations as well as metallurgical and petrochemical plants discharge about two thirds of the produced heat energy to the environment. In the plasma arc electrolytic centrifugal conversion process the energy is diverted from one production process to another allowing several times higher hydrocarbon processing. Elimination of harmful emissions into the atmosphere requires energy released due to the system combining the energy production with the mining, metallurgical and chemical industries. The substance processing is induced by the energy produced when burning hydrogen derived from hydrocarbon materials in oxygen recovered from ore. All energy produced but not consumed for external energy demand, is transferred into methanol serving as hydrogen, and therefore energy, accumulator. Energy is transferred over large distances by methanol transportation over pipelines with the return to the processing area of carbon dioxide gas, required for plasma initiation.

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Anatolii E. Volkov

AdiRUT LLC

Author for correspondence.
Email: aa.volkov@urfu.ru

Cand. Sci. (Eng.), Director

Russian Federation, Moscow

Alexander A. Volkov

Ural Federal University named after the first President of Russia B.N. Yeltsin

Email: aa.volkov@urfu.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0003-3720-7622

postgraduate student

Russian Federation, Yekaterinburg

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2. Fig. 1. Schematic diagram of the metallurgical part PAECC

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3. Fig. 2. Stages of substance processing in the metallurgical part of the device PAECC: a - beginning of melting; b - electrolysis and melt drain; c - charge volume set for melting; d - subsequent melting

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4. Fig. 3. Schematic diagram of the production and consumption circuit design

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5. Fig. 4. General schematic diagram of the PAECC process device

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6. Fig. 5. General distribution of charge components in the production consumption circuit

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7. Fig. 6. The simplest schematic diagram of an ore-hydrocarbon power unit

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