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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 19, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 08, 2010
Christopher Perkins, Boulder, CO (US);
Zoran Jovanovic, Louisville, CO (US);
Courtland Hilton, Broomfield, CO (US);
Wayne Simmons, Dublin, OH (US);
Andrew Minden, Boulder, CO (US);
Christopher Perkins, Boulder, CO (US);
Zoran Jovanovic, Louisville, CO (US);
Courtland Hilton, Broomfield, CO (US);
Wayne Simmons, Dublin, OH (US);
Andrew Minden, Boulder, CO (US);
Sundrop Fuels, Inc., Longmont, CO (US);
Abstract
A method, apparatus, and system for an integrated solar-driven chemical plant that manages variations in solar energy are disclosed. In some embodiments, a chemical reactant, including particles of biomass, are converted in a solar driven chemical reactor into synthesis gas containing carbon monoxide and hydrogen using concentrated solar energy to drive the conversion of the chemical reactant. The synthesis gas is supplied for a catalytic conversion of the synthesis gas in a methanol synthesis plant to methanol. Cycling occurs between an operational state and an idle state for a number of methanol trains in the methanol synthesis plant depending upon an amount of synthesis gas generated in the solar driven chemical reactor. A control system for the chemical reactor sends control signals to and receives feedback from a control system for the methanol synthesis plant.