Dielectric heating of three-dimensional carbon nanostructured porous foams as a heat exchanger for volumetric heating of flowing fluids
OwnerDaniel Paul Hashiminventor
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Abstract
A system and method are described for heating a substance (i.e., liquid, gas, and/or an absorbed solid) using a carbon nanostructured porous foam as a heat transfer material and an electronic heat source. In some embodiments, the heat source may be a microwave volumetric heating (MVH) system. The method for heating, vaporizing, or decomposing any of the desired substance may involve filtering or continuously flowing the substance through the carbon nanostructured porous foam heat transfer material, resulting in physical confinement or absorption of the substance, and subjecting the carbon nanostructure porous foam heat transfer material to sufficient electronic radiation.
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A system for heating, evaporating, vaporizing, distilling, decomposing, pyrolyzing, cracking or refining a stagnate or flowing substance, comprising:
- a) a solid three-dimensional carbon nanotube structures comprising heteroatom-doped carbon nanotubes, having a plurality of porous cavities, and
- b) an energy source, adapted to transfer electromagnetic radiation to the carbon nanostructure porous foam material at a predetermined frequency bandwidth,
- wherein the energy source comprises radio/microwave radiation.
A system for heating, evaporating, vaporizing, distilling, decomposing, pyrolyzing, cracking or refining a stagnate or flowing substance, comprising:
- a) a solid three-dimensional nanotube structure comprising heteroatom-doped carbon nanotubes, having a plurality of porous cavities, and
- b) an energy source, adapted to transfer electromagnetic radiation to the carbon nanostructure porous foam material at a predetermined frequency bandwidth,
- wherein the energy source comprises radio/microwave radiation,
- wherein the porous cavities of the solid three-dimensional carbon nanotube structures comprising heteroatom-doped carbon nanotubes are decorated with metals, metal oxides, or semiconductors, wherein the solid three-dimensional carbon nanostructured porous foam material nanotube structures comprising heteroatom-doped carbon nanotubes is micro-scaled.
A system for heating, evaporating, vaporizing, distilling, decomposing, pyrolyzing, cracking or refining a stagnate or flowing substance, comprising:
- a) a solid three-dimensional carbon nanostructured porous foam material nanotube structures comprising heteroatom-doped carbon nanotubes, having a plurality of porous cavities, and
- b) an energy source, adapted to transfer electromagnetic radiation to the carbon nanostructure porous foam material at a predetermined frequency bandwidth, wherein the material comprises carbon nanotubes, heteroatom-doped carbon nanotubes, graphene, heteroatom-doped graphene, graphitic microfibers, graphene oxide or combinations thereof,
- wherein the energy source comprises radio/microwave radiation, wherein the solid three-dimensional carbon nanostructured porous foam material comprising heteroatom-doped carbon nanotubes has a density less than 1 mg/cc.
A method for heating, evaporating, vaporizing, distilling, decomposing, pyrolyzing, cracking or refining a stagnate or flowing substance, comprising:
- a) providing a system comprising a solid three-dimensional carbon nanostructured porous foam material nanotube structures comprising heteroatom-doped carbon nanotubes, having a plurality of porous cavities, and an energy source, adapted to transfer electromagnetic radiation to the solid three-dimensional carbon nanostructured porous foam material nanotube structures comprising heteroatom-doped carbon nanotubes at a predetermined frequency bandwidth, wherein the energy source comprises radio/microwave radiation,
- b) at least partially filling the porous cavities of the porous solid three-dimensional carbon nanostructured porous foam material nanotube structures comprising heteroatom-doped carbon nanotubes with a stagnate or flowing substance, and
- c) using the energy source to heat the stagnate or flowing substance within the at least partially filled pores of the solid three-dimensional carbon nanostructured porous foam material nanotube structures comprising heteroatom-doped carbon nanotubes.
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