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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 28, 2024
Filed:
Sep. 16, 2020
Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Jessica Louis Baker Rivest, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Divyaraj Desai, Hayward, CA (US);
Dane Andrew Boysen, Anchorage, AK (US);
Ashish V. Pattekar, Cupertino, CA (US);
Palo Alto Research Center Incorporated, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods comprising: evaporating a catalyst source to produce a catalyst gas; condensing the catalyst gas to produce a catalyst vapor comprising catalyst droplets suspended in a gas phase; and contacting the catalyst vapor with a hydrocarbon gas to catalyze a decomposition reaction of the hydrocarbon gas into hydrogen gas and carbon. And, systems comprising: a catalyst source evaporator that provides a first stream to a reactor; a hydrocarbon source that provides a second stream to the reactor; a cooling column coupled to the reactor via a third stream comprising hydrogen, catalyst liquid, solid carbon, optionally catalyst gas, and optionally unreacted hydrocarbon gas such that the cooling column receives the third stream from the reactor; and wherein the cooling column has effluent streams that include (a) a fourth stream that comprises hydrogen and optionally catalyst gas and (b) a fifth stream that comprises catalyst liquid.