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US 2024/0417248 A1Published application
Method and system for decomposing a feedstock
AssigneeEkona Power Inc.
InventorTimothy Scott Coleman
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Abstract
A volume of a reaction chamber is increased to draw a feedstock into the reaction chamber. An energy fluid is flowed into the reaction chamber to mix with the feedstock. As a result of the mixing of the energy fluid with the feedstock, energy is transferred from the energy fluid to the feedstock and causes the feedstock to decompose and form one or more reaction products. The volume of the reaction chamber is decreased to expel the one or more reaction products from the reaction chamber.
Claims19
A method of decomposing a feedstock in a reaction chamber, comprising:
- increasing a volume of the reaction chamber to draw the feedstock into the reaction chamber;
- flowing an energy fluid into the reaction chamber to mix with the feedstock, wherein, as a result of the mixing of the energy fluid with the feedstock, energy is transferred from the energy fluid to the feedstock and causes the feedstock to decompose and form one or more reaction products;
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- decreasing the volume of the reaction chamber to expel the one or more reaction products from the reaction chamber.
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A system comprising:
- a reaction chamber;
- a combustion chamber connected to the reaction chamber;
- one or more feedstock inlets for allowing a feedstock to enter the reaction chamber;
- one or more combustion inlets for allowing one or more combustible gases to enter the combustion chamber;
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- one or more product outlets for allowing reaction products to exit the reaction chamber;
- a driving mechanism for controlling a volume of the reaction chamber;
- one or more igniters in the combustion chamber;
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- a controller, comprising circuitry, configured to:
- control the driving mechanism to increase the volume of the reaction chamber and thereby draw the feedstock into the reaction chamber via the one or more feedstock inlets, and draw the one or more combustible gases into the combustion chamber via the one or more combustion inlets;
- close the one or more feedstock inlets and the one or more combustion inlets;
- control the one or more igniters to combust the one or more combustible gases and thereby form one or more combustion products that flow into the reaction chamber and mix with the feedstock, wherein, as a result of the mixing of the one or more combustion products with the feedstock, energy is transferred from the one or more combustion products to the feedstock and causes the feedstock to decompose and form one or more reaction products;
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- control the driving mechanism to decrease the volume of the reaction chamber and thereby expel the one or more reaction products from the reaction chamber via the one or more product outlets.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.