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US 2026/0273501 A1Published application
Systems and methods for making syngas
AssigneeJBK Extractions LLC
InventorJames E. Klepper
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Abstract
Systems and methods for making syngas using a carbonaceous material, including organic material and/or polymeric material such as ground tire, wood, coal, and the like. The systems and methods may heat the carbonaceous material before syngas formation and be configured to use less oxygen than conventional syngas synthesis systems. Systems and methods including maintaining the mixture of gases at an elevated temperature while flowing gases along a tortuous reaction zone having a nonlinear path downstream of a reaction area.
Claims21
A system for forming syngas comprising:
- a volatilization zone configured to receive a carbonaceous material and heat the carbonaceous material to a temperature effective to volatilize gas from the carbonaceous material;
- a combustion zone downstream of the volatilization zone and configured to be coupled to a source of fuel, a source of oxygen, and a source of steam and to combust fuel with oxygen to produce heat;
- a horizontal reaction zone downstream from the combustion zone and configured to react steam from the source of steam and the volatilized gas to produce syngas;
- a tortuous reaction zone downstream from the horizontal reaction zone and configured to receive and react steam and volatilized gas to produce syngas;
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- a furnace including an exterior wall that defines a heated volume,
- wherein at least a portion of the tortuous reaction zone is within the heated volume.
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A method for producing syngas comprising:
- heating a carbonaceous material to a temperature effective to volatilize a gas therefrom;
- combusting a mixture of fuel and oxygen to generate heat;
- heating a mixture of steam and the volatilized gas with the heat from combusting in a reaction area to form syngas;
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- flowing the mixture of steam and the volatilized gas from the reaction area along a non-linear pathway from the reaction area toward a recovery tank at which syngas is collected,
- wherein during flowing along the non-linear pathway, heating the mixture of steam and the volatilized gas to a temperature effective to form additional syngas.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.