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US 2022/0023824 A1Published application
Method and reactor for producing one or more products
AssigneeEkona Power Inc.
InventorsJohn Benjamin Hinkey, JR., Timothy John Elder, Kenneth William Kratschmar, Christopher Edwin John Reid
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Abstract
A feedstock gas, such as natural gas, is introduced into a mixing chamber. A combustible gas is introduced into a combustion chamber, for example simultaneously to the introduction of the feedstock gas. Thereafter, the combustible gas is ignited so as to cause the combustible gas to flow into the mixing chamber via one or more fluid flow paths between the combustion chamber and the mixing chamber, and to mix with the feedstock gas. The mixing of the combustible gas with the feedstock gas causes one or more products to be produced.
Claims39
A method of producing one or more products, comprising:
- introducing a feedstock gas into a mixing chamber, wherein the feedstock gas comprises one or more gases;
- introducing a combustible gas into a combustion chamber, wherein the combustible gas comprises one or more gases;
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- thereafter, igniting the combustible gas so as to combust the combustible gas and thereby form one or more combustion product gases and cause the one or more combustion product gases to flow into the mixing chamber via one or more fluid flow paths between the combustion chamber and the mixing chamber, and to cause the one or more combustion product gases to mix with the feedstock gas, wherein, as a result of the mixing of the one or more combustion product gases with the feedstock gas, energy is transferred from the one or more combustion product gases to the feedstock gas and thereby causes a chemical reaction to produce one or more products.
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A feedstock gas reactor comprising:
- a mixing chamber;
- a combustion chamber;
- valving for controlling flow of gases into and out of the mixing chamber and the combustion chamber;
- an igniter;
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- one or more controllers configured to perform a method comprising:
- controlling the valving to introduce a feedstock gas into the mixing chamber, wherein the feedstock gas comprises one or more gases;
- controlling the valving to introduce a combustible gas into the combustion chamber, wherein the combustible gas comprises one or more gases;
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- thereafter, controlling the igniter to ignite the combustible gas so as to combust the combustible gas and thereby form one or more combustion product gases and cause the one or more combustion product gases to flow into the mixing chamber via one or more fluid flow paths between the combustion chamber and the mixing chamber, and to cause the one or more combustion product gases to mix with the feedstock gas, wherein, as a result of the mixing of the one or more combustion product gases with the feedstock gas, energy is transferred from the one or more combustion product gases to the feedstock gas and thereby causes a chemical reaction to produce one or more products.
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A system comprising:
- multiple feedstock reactors, each reactor comprising:
- a mixing chamber;
- a combustion chamber;
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- an igniter;
- valving for controlling flow of gases into and out of the mixing chambers and the combustion chambers;
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- one or more controllers configured to perform a method comprising, for each reactor:
- controlling the valving to introduce a feedstock gas into the mixing chamber, wherein the feedstock gas comprises one or more gases;
- controlling the valving to introduce a combustible gas into the combustion chamber, wherein the feedstock gas comprises one or more gases;
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- thereafter, controlling the igniter to ignite the combustible gas so as to combust the combustible gas and thereby form one or more combustion product gases and cause the one or more combustion product gases to flow into the mixing chamber via one or more fluid flow paths between the combustion chamber and the mixing chamber, and to cause the one or more combustion product gases to mix with the feedstock gas, wherein, as a result of the mixing of the one or more combustion product gases with the feedstock gas, energy is transferred from the one or more combustion product gases to the feedstock gas and thereby causes a chemical reaction to produce one or more products, wherein, for a given reactor, the method is performed out of phase with at least one other reactor of the multiple reactors.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.