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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 20, 2017
Lyten, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Joe Griffith Cruz, San Jose, CA (US);
Ryan Balmores, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Thomas Riso, Elizabeth, CO (US);
Philip David Fulmer, San Jose, CA (US);
Hossein-Ali Ghezelbash, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Ranjeeth Kalluri, Fremont, CA (US);
Michael W. Stowell, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Bryce H. Anzelmo, Mountain View, CA (US);
Lyten, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
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.