公开(公告)号：US09862602B1

公开(公告)日：2018-01-09

申请号：US15470450

申请日：2017-03-27

Applicant: Lyten, Inc.

Inventor： Thomas Riso ,  Philip David Fulmer ,  Ryan Balmores ,  Hossein-Ali Ghezelbash ,  Bryce H. Anzelmo

IPC: C23C16/00 ,  C01B3/24 ,  C10G9/00 ,  B01J2/00 ,  C01B31/02 ,  C01B31/04 ,  C04B35/628

CPC classification number: C01B3/24 ,  B01J2/006 ,  C01B31/0226 ,  C01B31/0293 ,  C01B31/04 ,  C01B31/0446 ,  C01B2202/02 ,  C01B2202/06 ,  C01B2203/0272 ,  C01B2203/085 ,  C01B2203/1235 ,  C04B35/62839 ,  C10G9/00

Abstract: A process gas (such as a hydrocarbon gas) is flowed through a thermal cracking apparatus to crack the process gas into constituent components (such as hydrogen gas and solid carbon nano-particles, e.g., carbon nano-onions, necked carbon nano-onions, carbon nanospheres, graphene, graphite, highly ordered pyrolytic graphite, single walled nanotubes, and/or multi-walled nanotubes). The thermal cracking apparatus has an elongated heating element disposed within an inner volume along a longitudinal axis thereof. The elongated heating element heats the process gas as it flows within a longitudinal elongated reaction zone to thermally crack molecules of the process gas into the constituent components of the molecules.

公开(公告)号：US10465128B2

公开(公告)日：2019-11-05

申请号：US15710679

申请日：2017-09-20

Applicant: Lyten, Inc.

Inventor： Joe Griffith Cruz ,  Ryan Balmores ,  Thomas Riso ,  Philip David Fulmer ,  Hossein-Ali Ghezelbash ,  Ranjeeth Kalluri ,  Michael W. Stowell ,  Bryce H. Anzelmo

IPC: C01B3/24 ,  C01B32/154 ,  C10G47/22 ,  G06F1/20

Abstract: A thermal cracking apparatus and method includes a body having an inner volume with a longitudinal axis, where a reaction zone surrounds the longitudinal axis. A feedstock process gas is flowed into the inner volume and longitudinally through the reaction zone during thermal cracking operations. A power control system controls electrical power to an elongated heating element, which is disposed within the inner volume. During thermal cracking operations, the elongated heating element is heated to a molecular cracking temperature to generate the reaction zone, the feedstock process gas is heated from the elongated heating element, the power control system uses a feedback parameter for adjusting the electrical power to maintain the molecular cracking temperature at a substantially constant value, and the heat thermally cracks molecules of the feedstock process gas that are within the reaction zone into constituent components of the molecules.

公开(公告)号：US20180273379A1

公开(公告)日：2018-09-27

申请号：US15849544

申请日：2017-12-20

Applicant: Lyten, Inc.

Inventor： Thomas Riso ,  Philip David Fulmer ,  Ryan Balmores ,  Hossein-Ali Ghezelbash ,  Bryce H. Anzelmo

IPC: C01B3/24 ,  B01J2/00 ,  C10G9/00 ,  C04B35/628

CPC classification number: C01B3/24 ,  B01J2/006 ,  C01B32/05 ,  C01B32/16 ,  C01B32/18 ,  C01B32/184 ,  C01B32/20 ,  C01B32/312 ,  C01B32/33 ,  C01B2202/02 ,  C01B2202/06 ,  C01B2203/0272 ,  C01B2203/085 ,  C01B2203/1235 ,  C04B35/62839 ,  C10G9/00

Abstract: A process gas (such as a hydrocarbon gas) is flowed through a thermal cracking apparatus to crack the process gas into constituent components (such as hydrogen gas and solid carbon nano-particles, e.g., carbon nano-onions, necked carbon nano-onions, carbon nanospheres, graphene, graphite, highly ordered pyrolytic graphite, single walled nanotubes, and/or multi-walled nanotubes). The thermal cracking apparatus has an elongated heating element disposed within an inner volume along a longitudinal axis thereof. The elongated heating element heats the process gas as it flows within a longitudinal elongated reaction zone to thermally crack molecules of the process gas into the constituent components of the molecules.