US 11,884,543 B2
Flow through fuel reactor
Jason Fischman, Stamford, CT (US); Peter Godart, Cambridge, MA (US); Douglas P. Hart, Charlestown, MA (US); EthelMae Victoria Dydek, Waltham, MA (US); Theodore Bloomstein, Medford, MA (US); Andrew Whitehead, Somerville, MA (US); Jean Sack, Eureka, CA (US); and Eric Morgan, Bolton, MA (US)
Assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US)
Filed by Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US)
Filed on Dec. 30, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/138,159.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/984,113, filed on Mar. 2, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2021/0269306 A1, Sep. 2, 2021
Int. Cl. C01B 3/08 (2006.01); B01J 8/08 (2006.01); H01M 8/0606 (2016.01)
CPC C01B 3/08 (2013.01) [B01J 8/085 (2013.01); B01J 2208/00761 (2013.01); H01M 8/0606 (2013.01)] 27 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A flow reactor comprising:
a first reservoir;
water disposed in the first reservoir;
a second reservoir;
a slurry including water reactive particles dispersed within a carrier fluid, wherein the slurry is disposed in the second reservoir; and
a flow through reaction chamber in fluid communication with the first reservoir and the second reservoir, wherein the water from the first reservoir and the slurry from the second reservoir flow through the flow through reaction chamber, and wherein the water and the water reactive particles react to produce hydrogen gas.
 
12. A flow reactor comprising:
a first reservoir;
water disposed in the first reservoir;
a second reservoir;
a slurry including water reactive particles dispersed within a carrier fluid, wherein the slurry is disposed in the second reservoir; and
a porous conduit in fluid communication with the first reservoir and the second reservoir, wherein the water from the first reservoir and the slurry from the second reservoir flow through the porous conduit, wherein the porous conduit is permeable to gas and is impermeable to the water and the slurry.