US 11,890,606 B2
Photocatalytic reactor having multiple photocatalytic reactor cells
Suman Khatiwada, Houston, TX (US); and Trevor William Best, Houston, TX (US)
Assigned to Syzygy Plasmonics Inc., Houston, TX (US)
Appl. No. 16/625,527
Filed by SYZYGY PLASMONICS INC., Houston, TX (US)
PCT Filed Jun. 26, 2018, PCT No. PCT/US2018/039476
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 20, 2019,
PCT Pub. No. WO2019/005779, PCT Pub. Date Jan. 3, 2019.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/586,675, filed on Nov. 15, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/525,380, filed on Jun. 27, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/525,305, filed on Jun. 27, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/525,301, filed on Jun. 27, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2021/0178378 A1, Jun. 17, 2021
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. B01J 35/00 (2006.01); B01J 19/00 (2006.01); H01M 14/00 (2006.01); B01J 19/12 (2006.01)
CPC B01J 35/004 (2013.01) [B01J 19/0013 (2013.01); B01J 19/0053 (2013.01); H01M 14/005 (2013.01); B01J 19/123 (2013.01); B01J 19/127 (2013.01); B01J 19/128 (2013.01); B01J 2219/0877 (2013.01); B01J 2219/0892 (2013.01)] 23 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A reactor system comprising:
a housing; and
a plurality of fixed-bed reactor cells disposed within an interior of the housing and arranged to surround at least one light source located within the interior of the housing and adjacent to each of the plurality of reactor cells such that the at least one light source directly imparts light to each of the plurality of reactor cells, each of the plurality of reactor cells comprising:
an optically transparent enclosure and a plasmonic photocatalyst on a catalyst support disposed within the enclosure, wherein the plasmonic photocatalyst comprises a catalyst coupled to a plasmonic material having a plasmon resonant frequency to catalyze a desired chemical reaction that transforms a reactant gas into a reformate gas upon application of the light from the at least one light source as the reactant gas flows through each of the plurality of reactor cells and reacts to form the reformate gas that flows out of each of the plurality of reactor cells, wherein the catalyst support is disposed as a fixed bed substantially filling an entirety of the enclosure and retained in the enclosure by at least one packing support element, and wherein the enclosure comprises at least one input for the reactant gas to enter each of the plurality of reactor cells and at least one output for the reformate gas to flow out of each of the plurality of reactor cells;
wherein the reactant gas is distributed into each of the plurality of reactor cells; and
wherein the reformate gas is accumulated out of each of the plurality of reactor cells.