3.7. Contact-oriented reactors
The contact principle was first applied to develop three new reactor types: turbulent jet (Fig. 3(c)), laminar jet (Fig. 3(d)) and RVC HV (Fig. 3(e)). The general idea behind these contact-oriented reactors was to pass the liquid feed directly through the discharge region above the liquid surface to facilitate additional contact between the plasma and liquid. Even though the basic configurations of the three reactors were quite similar, their performances differed significantly (Fig. 9).
The RVC HV reactor featured a low velocity liquid stream falling through the RVC plate, which had minimal effect on the characteristics of the liquid surface. However some of the leaders