US 12,215,029 B2
Graphite purification system and method
Palash Gangopadhyay, Chapel Hill, NC (US); Jillian Grass, Phoenix, AZ (US); Jan Segura Schreiber, Hamburg (DE); and Benjamin Shane Riggs, San Tan Valley, AZ (US)
Assigned to Urbix, Inc., Mesa, AZ (US)
Filed by URBIX, INC., Mesa, AZ (US)
Filed on Mar. 25, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/615,406.
Application 18/615,406 is a continuation of application No. PCT/US2023/070928, filed on Jul. 25, 2023.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/369,275, filed on Jul. 25, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0228299 A1, Jul. 11, 2024
Int. Cl. C01B 32/215 (2017.01); F27D 3/00 (2006.01); F27D 11/06 (2006.01); F27D 19/00 (2006.01); F27D 9/00 (2006.01)
CPC C01B 32/215 (2017.08) [F27D 3/0033 (2013.01); F27D 11/06 (2013.01); F27D 19/00 (2013.01); F27D 2009/0002 (2013.01); F27D 2019/0003 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A graphite purification system comprising:
a vertical continuous graphite feed system;
a vessel adapted to contain graphite particles;
a graphite tube contained within said vessel for heating said graphite particles fed from said vertical continuous graphite feed system and passing through said graphite tube:
an inductive coil wrapped about a first portion of said graphite tube and adapted for heating said graphite particles in said first portion of said graphite tube; and
a cooling system adapted to cool said graphite particles in a second portion of said graphite tube.