Filip Jennifer Rysanek

US Patent:

20090269273, Oct 29, 2009

Filed:

Oct 23, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/256877

Inventors:

Rodney L. Burton - Champaign IL, US
Peter J. Schubert - Naperville IL, US
Filip Rysanek - Torrance CA, US
Paul Fenoglio - Denver CO, US
Mike Hutches - Aurora IL, US

Assignee:

PACKER ENGINEERING, INC. - Naperville IL

International Classification:

C01B 13/16
B01D 3/40

US Classification:

423579, 202158

Abstract:

A facility and process capable of extracting oxygen in extraterrestrial environments from materials available in extraterrestrial environments, for example, on planets, planetoids, etc. The facility extracts oxygen from a mineral-containing solid material and is configured to form a free-falling molten stream of the solid material, evaporate at least a portion of the molten stream and produce a vapor containing gaseous oxygen, create a supersonic stream of the vapor, condense constituents of the supersonic stream to form particulates within the supersonic stream, separate the gaseous oxygen from the particulates, and then collect the gaseous oxygen.