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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 09, 2018
Filed:
Mar. 27, 2017
Lyten, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Thomas Riso, Elizabeth, CO (US);
Philip David Fulmer, San Jose, CA (US);
Ryan Balmores, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Hossein-Ali Ghezelbash, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Bryce H. Anzelmo, Mountain View, CA (US);
Lyten, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
A process gas (such as a hydrocarbon gas) is flowed through a thermal cracking apparatus to crack the process gas into constituent components (such as hydrogen gas and solid carbon nano-particles, e.g., carbon nano-onions, necked carbon nano-onions, carbon nanospheres, graphene, graphite, highly ordered pyrolytic graphite, single walled nanotubes, and/or multi-walled nanotubes). The thermal cracking apparatus has an elongated heating element disposed within an inner volume along a longitudinal axis thereof. The elongated heating element heats the process gas as it flows within a longitudinal elongated reaction zone to thermally crack molecules of the process gas into the constituent components of the molecules.