Gas generation apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10879085-B2
Application number	US-201616347703-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 19, 2016
Priority date	Dec 19, 2016
Publication date	Dec 29, 2020
Grant date	Dec 29, 2020

Abstract

Six gas generator units each including a gas generator, one unit of multiple AC power supply section that supplies six high frequency AC voltages to the six gas generator units, one unit of gas control section that controls raw material gas and output gas in the six gas generator units, and one unit of control/operation section constituting section that performs an AC power control operation to allow six high frequency AC voltages having desired electric energy, independent from each other, to be supplied. The six gas generator units, one unit of multiple AC power supply section, one unit of gas control section, and one unit of control/operation section constituting section are integrally provided.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A gas generation apparatus having a plurality of gas generator units each including a gas generator that generates an output gas, comprising:
a multiple AC power supply section that is shared by said plurality of gas generator units and supplies a plurality of AC voltages to said plurality of gas generator units; and
a gas control section that is shared by said plurality of gas generator units and controls a raw material gas supplied to said plurality of gas generator units and the output gas generated by said plurality of gas generator units, wherein
said gas control section includes:
a plurality of mass flow controllers (MFCs) provided corresponding to said plurality of gas generator units, each of the plurality of the MFCs controlling a raw material gas flow rate that is a flow rate of the raw material gas being input to a corresponding one of the plurality of the gas generator units;
a plurality of auto pressure controllers (APCs) provided corresponding to said plurality of gas generator units, each of the plurality of APCs controlling an internal pressure that is a pressure inside the gas generator of a corresponding one of the plurality of the gas generator units; and
a plurality of gas densitometers provided corresponding to said plurality of gas generator units, each of the plurality of gas densitometers detecting a concentration of the output gas output by the gas generator of a corresponding one of the plurality of the gas generator units as a detected concentration,

said gas generation apparatus further comprises
an AC power supply control section that performs an AC power control operation on said multiple AC power supply section,

said AC power control operation includes an operation of controlling electric energy of a corresponding AC voltage of said plurality of AC voltages, based on the detected concentration detected by a corresponding one of the plurality of gas densitometers, and
said plurality of gas generator units, said multiple AC power supply section, said gas control section, and said AC power supply control section are integrally provided.

2. The gas generation apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
each of said plurality of MFCs detects the raw material gas flow rate as a detected gas flow rate, and each of said plurality of APCs detects a pressure on an output side of a corresponding one of the plurality of the gas generator units as a detected pressure, and
said AC power control operation controls electric energy of a corresponding AC voltage, based on a detected gas flow rate detected by a corresponding one of the plurality of the MFCs and a detected pressure detected by a corresponding one of the plurality of the APCs, in addition to a detected concentration detected by a corresponding one of the plurality of the gas densitometers.

3. The gas generation apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
said raw material gas includes an oxygen gas, and said output gas includes an ozone gas, and
said gas generator is an ozone generator that generates the ozone gas from the oxygen gas, and said plurality of gas generator units are a plurality of ozone gas generator units.

4. The gas generation apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein
said raw material gas includes a plurality of types of raw material gases that are different from each other,
said gas control section includes a raw material gas passage provided such that each of said plurality of types of raw material gases is supplied to a corresponding gas generator unit of said plurality of gas generator units, and
said output gas includes a plurality of types of output gases corresponding to said plurality of types of raw material gases.

5. The gas generation apparatus according to claim 4 , wherein said plurality of types of raw material gases include a first partial raw material gas that is an oxygen gas, and a mixed raw material gas in which a second partial raw material gas that is at least one of a carbon-based gas, a hydrogen-based gas, a nitrogen-based gas, and a fluorine-based gas is added to said first partial raw material gas.

6. The gas generation apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising
an external gas generator unit that is provided outside separately from said plurality of gas generator units, said multiple AC power supply section, said gas control section, and said AC power supply control section, the external gas generator unit including a gas generator,
wherein
said multiple AC power supply section further supplies an external AC voltage to said external gas generator unit,
said gas control section controls an output gas generated by said external gas generator unit,
said gas control section further includes:
an external MFC that controls a raw material gas flow rate that is a flow rate of a raw material gas input to said external gas generator unit; and
an external APC that controls an internal pressure that is a pressure inside the gas generator of said external gas generator unit,

said external MFC detects the raw material gas flow rate input to said external gas generator unit as an external detected gas flow rate, and said external APC detects a pressure on an input side of said external gas generator unit as an external detected pressure, and
said AC power control operation performed by said AC power supply control section further includes an operation of controlling electric energy of said external AC voltage, based on the external detected gas flow rate detected by said external MFC and the external detected pressure detected by said external APC.

7. The gas generation apparatus according to claim 6 , wherein
the output gas generated by said plurality of gas generator units includes at least one of an ozone gas, an oxygen gas, a hydrogen gas, a nitrogen gas, and a fluorine gas,
the output gas generated by said external gas generator unit includes at least one radical gas of an oxygen radical gas, a hydrogen radical gas, a nitrogen radical gas, and a fluorine radical gas, and
said external gas generator unit is directly connected to a gas treatment apparatus provided outside such that the radical gas is directly output to the gas treatment apparatus.

8. The gas generation apparatus according to claim 1 , further comprising
an external gas generator unit that is provided outside separately from said plurality of gas generator units, said multiple AC power supply section, said gas control section, and said AC power supply control section, the external gas generator unit including a gas generator.

9. The gas generation apparatus according to claim 8 , wherein
said multiple AC power supply section further supplies an external AC voltage to said external gas generator unit, and
said gas control section controls an output gas generated by said external gas generator unit.

10. The gas generation apparatus according to claim 9 , wherein said gas control section further includes:
an external MFC that controls a raw material gas flow rate that is a flow rate of a raw material gas input to said external gas generator unit; and
an external APC that controls an internal pressure that is a pressure inside the gas generator of said external gas generator unit,
said external MFC detects the raw material gas flow rate input to said external gas generator unit as an external detected gas flow rate, and said external APC detects a pressure on an input side of said external gas generator unit as an external detected pressure.

Assignees

• Toshiba Mitsubishi Electric Industrial Systems Corp

Inventors

• Tabata Yoichiro
• Ono Yuji
• SATO Takasho

Classifications

• H10P72/0402 Primary

  Apparatus for fluid treatment (H10P72/0441, H10P72/0448 take precedence) · CPC title

• Y02E60/50

  Fuel cells · CPC title

• C01B2201/90

  Control of the process · CPC title

• C01B13/11 Primary

  by electric discharge · CPC title

• C01B2201/64

  Oxygen · CPC title