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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 04, 2021
Filed:
Sep. 08, 2016
Sundrop Fuels, Inc., Longmont, CO (US);
Douglas S. Jack, Longmont, CO (US);
Renus C. Kelfkens, Longmont, CO (US);
Wayne W. Simmons, Longmont, CO (US);
Andrew Argo, Fort Collins, CO (US);
Andrew W. Broerman, Frederick, CO (US);
Sundrop IP Holdings, LLC, Longmont, CO (US);
Abstract
An interconnected set of two or more stages of reactors to form a bio-reforming reactor that generates syngas for a number of different liquid fuel or chemical processes is discussed. A first stage includes a circulating fluidized bed reactor that is configured to cause a chemical devolatilization of the biomass into its reaction products of constituent gases, tars, chars, and other components, which exit through a reactor output from the first stage. A second stage of the bio-reforming reactor has an input configured to receive a stream of some of the reaction products that includes the constituent gases and at least some of the tars as raw syngas, and then chemically reacts the raw syngas within a vessel of the second stage to make the raw syngas from the first stage into a chemical grade syngas by further cracking the tars, excess methane, or both.