The ShockWave Power™ Reactor (SPR) does not use electric heating elements, or fossil fuel, to create heat. The moving rotor inside the Reactor produces cavitation in the liquid. The cavitation, in turn, creates millions of microscopic bubbles inside the liquid that release heat when they collapse. The heating takes place very uniformly at the microscopic level. Thus, there are no hot or cold spots.  The SPR also has the benefit of heating and mixing simultaneously.

The SPR heats liquids in a totally different way and creates the heat in a totally different place; inside the liquid. The heat is created where it is needed. In the SPR™ Reactor, there are no heat transfer surfaces--the metal surfaces are actually cooler than the liquid. Impurities will not migrate from a hotter liquid and buildup on cooler metal. Therefore, there are no drivers for the SPR system to scale.

With all other heating systems, the heating surface is always hotter than the liquid and will cause impurities to scale on the metal surface over a period of time -- it is just a question of how fast.

Additionally, there is an ultrasonic cleaning effect that occurs on the metal surfaces inside the SPR as the shockwaves are generated within narrow clearances. This cleaning effect, in conjunction with a negative ∆T between metal and liquid, ensures scale-free heating.

The system can heat water and produce steam, but there are numerous conventional boiler technologies that can heat water and make steam that are less capital intensive and often cheaper to operate with gas our oil as compared to electricity.  Because of this we generally do not recommend the SPR for home/residential/building heating systems and generic steam systems.  Our core heating applications are now applications where:

1. A fluid scales rapidly on a heat transfer surface
2. Safety/operational concerns demand a flameless system for safety
3. Total automation is needed and not available with conventional technology

Our heating applications are largely niche applications where conventional technology falls short.  Examples of heating applications well suited to the device include:

1. Heating of food products such as cheese, eggs and chocolate
2. Heating chemical and polymeric streams
3. Heating industrial brines and heavy salt solutions

Our company continues to strive to bring our customers the best industrial heating solutions.