Centrifugal spray singlet oxygen generator for a COIL with nitrogen as a buffer gas

Otomar Špalek; Vít Jirásek; Miroslav Čenský; Jarmila Kodymová

doi:10.1117/12.2010590

30 January 2013 Centrifugal spray singlet oxygen generator for a COIL with nitrogen as a buffer gas

Otomar Špalek, Vít Jirásek, Miroslav Čenský, Jarmila Kodymová

Proceedings Volume 8677, XIX International Symposium on High-Power Laser Systems and Applications 2012; 867706 (2013) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2010590
Event: XIX International Symposium on High-Power Laser Systems and Applications, 2012, Istanbul, Turkey

Abstract

A scalable high pressure centrifugal spray generator of singlet oxygen for chemical oxygen-iodine laser (COIL) was developed. This generator uses nitrogen as chlorine diluting gas. Different spray nozzles were tested which could be assembled together and so enable a high chlorine flow rates for a high-power COIL. The designed generator can produce singlet oxygen, O₂(¹Δg), with reasonable chlorine utilization and O₂(¹Δg) yield even at very high generator pressures, which cannot be attained by other O₂(¹Δg) generators. This high-pressure operation is beneficial for a pressure recovery system of the laser. Another advantage of this generator is a very high BHP utilization. The problem of heating of exit gas was solved by introducing additional nitrogen between the separator rotor and stator.

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Otomar Špalek, Vít Jirásek, Miroslav Čenský, and Jarmila Kodymová "Centrifugal spray singlet oxygen generator for a COIL with nitrogen as a buffer gas", Proc. SPIE 8677, XIX International Symposium on High-Power Laser Systems and Applications 2012, 867706 (30 January 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2010590

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