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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 14, 2023
Filed:
Nov. 16, 2018
The Regents of the University of California, Oakland, CA (US);
Eric W. McFarland, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Ches Upham, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Jiren Zeng, Goleta, CA (US);
Clarke Palmer, Goleta, CA (US);
Shizhao Su, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Davide Mannini, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Dohyung Kang, Goleta, CA (US);
Nazanin Rahimi, Goleta, CA (US);
Horia Metiu, Santa Barbara, CA (US);
Michael Gordon, Goleta, CA (US);
THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Oakland, CA (US);
Abstract
The reaction rate of hydrocarbon pyrolysis can be increased to produce solid carbon and hydrogen by the use of molten materials which have catalytic functionality to increase the rate of reaction and physical properties that facilitate the formation and contamination-free separation of the solid carbon. Processes, materials, reactor configurations, and conditions are disclosed whereby methane and other hydrocarbons can be decomposed at high reaction rates into hydrogen gas and carbon products without any carbon oxides in a single reaction step. The process also makes use of specific properties of selected materials with unique solubilities and/or wettability of products into (and/or by) the molten phase to facilitate generation of purified products and increased conversion in more general reactions.