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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Patent No.:

US 10632436 B1

PDFFull Text
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2020

Filed:

May. 11, 2017

Hydrogen, lithium, and lithium hydride production

Applicant:

Consolidated Nuclear Security, Llc, Oak Ridge, TN (US);

Inventors:

Sam W. Brown, Knoxville, TN (US);

Larry S. Spencer, Knoxville, TN (US);

Michael R. Phillips, Harriman, TN (US);

G. Louis Powell, Oak Ridge, TN (US);

Peggy J. Campbell, Clinton, TN (US);

Assignee:

Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC, Oak Ridge, TN (US);

Attorneys:

Luedeka Neely Group, P.C.

Michael J. Renner, Esq.

Primary Examiner:

Xiaowei Su

Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C22B 1/00 (2006.01); C22B 19/16 (2006.01); C22B 5/16 (2006.01); C22B 26/22 (2006.01); C22B 17/06 (2006.01); B01J 7/00 (2006.01); C01B 3/04 (2006.01); B01D 53/00 (2006.01); C22B 26/12 (2006.01); C22B 9/00 (2006.01); C22B 9/02 (2006.01); C22B 9/04 (2006.01); F27D 7/06 (2006.01); F27D 17/00 (2006.01); C01D 15/00 (2006.01); B01D 53/22 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B01J 7/00 (2013.01); B01D 53/002 (2013.01); B01D 53/22 (2013.01); C01B 3/04 (2013.01); C01D 15/00 (2013.01); C22B 9/006 (2013.01); C22B 9/026 (2013.01); C22B 9/04 (2013.01); C22B 26/12 (2013.01); F27D 7/06 (2013.01); F27D 17/001 (2013.01); F27D 17/008 (2013.01); F27D 2007/066 (2013.01); Y02E 60/364 (2013.01);
Abstract

A hydrogen, lithium, and lithium hydride processing apparatus includes a hot zone to heat solid-phase lithium hydride to form liquid-phase lithium hydride; a vacuum source to extract hydrogen and gaseous-phase lithium metal from the liquid-phase lithium hydride; a cold zone to condense the gaseous-phase lithium metal as purified solid-phase lithium metal; and a heater to melt the purified solid-phase lithium metal in the cold zone and form refined liquid-phase lithium metal in the hot zone.

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