Chemical-Free Industrial Processes through High-Concentration Generation and Exposure of Reactive Oxygen Species Achieved by Radical Vapor Reactor

Abstract

There is a concept called Ecofitting technology. It is a concept that making industrial processes more environmentally friendly leads to a transformation into a more economical industrial process as a result. I have developed several new chemical processes based on this research concept. One of them is the radical vapor reactor (RVR), which is already in practical use (commercially available) as a process device. I found and developed a reaction (called the oxygen P/L reaction or RVR reaction) that can generate high concentrations of hydroxyl radicals and singlet oxygen, which are highly oxidizing among reactive oxygen species, and developed a device that can expose objects to the high-concentration reactive oxygen atmosphere generated by the reaction. I have then put it into practical use as a reactive oxygen species generation and exposure device that can be used in various chemical industrial processes. In this paper, the author, who discovered the RVR reaction, developed the RVR device, and further demonstrated various applications of the RVR, outlines the research and development of the RVR reaction (device design and commercialization), and examples of applications of the commercialized RVR device.