Hydrogen co-firing with carbon pre-capture for higher carbon ratio fossil fuels
OwnerChristopher L. de Graffenried, Sr.inventor
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Abstract
An apparatus is disclosed for the pre-capture of carbon from natural gas and/or other light gaseous hydrocarbons and oils, and for co-firing the resulting hydrogen and any remaining hydrocarbons with higher carbon ratio fuels, such as coal and heavy oils and even lower carbon ratio natural gas, in a steam electric generator and/or other boilers, processes, reactors, power plants, engines and combustion turbines, and combined cycle units, to reduce their carbon dioxide production and emissions to the environment, and for co-processing the syngas with other feed materials to react them in a separate vessel and produce a desired outcome.
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An apparatus for reducing carbon dioxide emissions, the apparatus comprising:
- a mounting surface;
- a natural gas as a feed material wherein the natural gas has a moisture content of less than 50% moisture content by weight:
- a feed material module coupled to the mounting surface, the feed material module being configured to receive the natural gas as the feed material therein;
- a syngas comprising 50% hydrogen:
- a decomposition module operationally coupled to the feed material module, the decomposition module containing one or more plasma sheets forming a plasma reacting region having a temperature in a range of approximately 800° C. to approximately 5000° C. and a pressure in a range of approximately 0 atmospheres to approximately 100 atmospheres that is configured to decompose the natural gas into the syngas comprising 50% hydrogen;
- a filter module configured to separate entrained at least solid carbon soot from the syngas;
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- a mixing module configured to mix the syngas with at least one fossil fuel.
An apparatus for reducing carbon dioxide emissions, the apparatus comprising:
- a mounting surface, wherein the mounting surface is mobile or fixed;
- a natural gas, wherein the natural gas has a moisture content of less than 50% moisture content by weight;
- a natural gas module coupled to the mounting surface, the natural gas module being configured to regulate at least a pressure, a temperature, and a flow rate of the natural gas;
- a syngas comprising 50% hydrogen;
- a decomposition module operationally coupled to the natural gas module, the decomposition module containing one or more plasma sheets forming a plasma reacting region having a temperature in a range of approximately 800° C. to approximately 5000° C. and a pressure in a range of approximately 0 atmospheres to approximately 100 atmospheres that is configured to decompose the natural gas into the syngas comprising 50% hydrogen via plasma pyrolysis;
- a filter module configured to separate entrained at least solid carbon soot from the syngas;
- a mixing module configured to mix the syngas with at least one higher carbon ratio fossil fuel;
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- a carbon disposal module configured to receive the solid carbon soot from the syngas.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.