Photocatalytic reactor having multiple photocatalytic reactor cells
AssigneeSyzygy Plasmonics Inc.
InventorsSuman Khatiwada, Trevor William Best
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Abstract
The present disclosure relates generally to reactor systems that include (a) a housing having an interior surface that may be at least partially reflective, (b) at least one reactor cell disposed within an interior of the housing, the at least one reactor cell including an enclosure and a plasmonic photocatalyst on a catalyst support disposed within the at least one enclosure, where the enclosure is optically transparent and includes at least one input for a reactant to enter the at least one cell and at least one output for a reformate to exit the at least one cell and (c) at least one light source disposed within the interior of the housing and/or external to the housing.
Claims8
A method for transforming at least one reactant into at least one reformate, the method comprising:
- distributing the at least one reactant into a plurality of fixed-bed reactor cells disposed within an interior of a housing, wherein each of the plurality of fixed-bed reactor cells comprises an optically transparent enclosure and a plasmonic photocatalyst on a catalyst support disposed within the optically transparent enclosure;
- illuminating, via at least one light source, the interior of the housing, wherein the at least one light source is disposed within the interior of the housing and adjacent to each of the plurality of fixed-bed reactor cells such that the at least one light source directly imparts light to each of the plurality of fixed-bed reactor cells and wherein upon illumination, each of the plurality of fixed-bed reactor cells are configured to transform the at least one reactant into the at least one reformate via the at least one reactant reacting with the plasmonic photocatalyst;
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- accumulating the at least one reformate from the plurality of fixed-bed reactor cells.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.