Method for generating mechanical and electrochemical cavitation, method for changing geometric shape and electrochemical properties of substance surface, method for peeling off rare metal, mechanical and electrochemical cavitation generator, and method for generating nuclear fusion reaction of deuterium

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10590966-B2
Application number	US-201615552777-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 22, 2016
Priority date	Feb 24, 2015
Publication date	Mar 17, 2020
Grant date	Mar 17, 2020

Abstract

Provided are a method for generating mechanical and electrochemical cavitation, a method for changing the geometric shape and the electrochemical properties of a surface of a substance, a method for peeling off a rare metal using the generated mechanical and electrochemical cavitation, a mechanical and electrochemical cavitation generator, and a method for generating a nuclear fusion reaction of deuterium. In the method for generating mechanical and electrochemical cavitation, a water jet is jetted from a jetting nozzle immersed in water, and flow cavitation generated by the jetting of the water jet is irradiated with an ultrasonic wave to generate cavitation MFC having both a functional effect and an electrochemical effect.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A method for generating mechanical and electrochemical cavitation, the method comprising: jetting a water jet from a jetting nozzle immersed in water; and applying an ultrasonic wave to flow cavitation, which is generated by the jetting of the water jet, at a position where the flow cavitation is expandable and the flow velocity of the flow cavitation is equal to or less than 5 m/s, and distributing high-temperature reaction fields, which are included in the flow cavitation and generated by repeated expansion/shrinkage resulting from the application of the ultrasonic wave, in such a manner that the high-temperature reaction fields are situated away from the jetting nozzle.

2. The method for generating mechanical and electrochemical cavitation according to claim 1 , wherein the frequency of the ultrasonic wave is 20 kHz or more and 33 kHz or less.

3. The method for generating mechanical and electrochemical cavitation according to claim 1 , wherein the distance between an ultrasonic wave applying element for applying the ultrasonic wave and the water jet is equal to or less than five times the wavelength of the ultrasonic wave.

4. The method for generating mechanical and electrochemical cavitation according to claim 1 , wherein by applying the ultrasonic wave to flow cavitation of a secondary jet flow generated on the periphery of a collision object by the water jet jetted from the jetting nozzle colliding with the collision object, high-temperature reaction fields included in the flow cavitation are generated on the periphery of the collision object.

5. A method for changing the geometric shape and the electrochemical properties of a surface of a substance by colliding mechanical and electrochemical cavitation, which is generated by the method for generating mechanical and electrochemical cavitation according to claim 1 , with the substance.

6. The method for changing the geometric shape and the electrochemical properties of a surface of a substance according to claim 5 , wherein the substance includes at least one substance selected from: titanium oxide having a crystal structure of rutile type or anatase type; platinum; and, nickel oxide,
wherein the titanium oxide includes particles of the titanium oxide having a particle size of 100 nm or more and 400 nm or less,
wherein the platinum includes particles of having a particle size of 0.1 μm or more and 85 μm or less, and
wherein the nickel oxide includes particles having a particle size of 0.1 μm or more and 85 μm or less.

7. The method for changing the geometric shape and the electrochemical properties of a surface of a substance according to claim 5 , wherein, an inactive surface having low gas adsorption, and high oxidation resistance and corrosion resistance is generated as the surface of the substance.

8. A method for peeling off a metal from a surface of a covered material by colliding mechanical and electrochemical cavitation, which is generated by the method for generating mechanical and electrochemical cavitation according to claim 1 , with the surface of the covered material on which the metal is deposited.

Assignees

• Univ Tokyo Science Found
• Sanyo Onoda City Public Univ Corporation

Inventors

• Yoshimura Toshihiko

Classifications

• B23P17/04

  characterised by the nature of the material involved or the kind of product independently of its shape · CPC title

• F15D1/00 Primary

  Influencing flow of fluids · CPC title

• B08B3/102

  with means for agitating the liquid (by agitating the container B08B3/042, B08B3/044, B08B3/045, B08B3/06) · CPC title

• G21B3/00

  Low temperature nuclear fusion reactors, e.g. alleged cold fusion reactors · CPC title

• B08B3/12

  by sonic or ultrasonic vibrations · CPC title