	US 12,286,540 B2
	Carbon black generating system
Ned J. Hardman, Lincoln, NE (US); Roscoe W. Taylor, Kingwood, TX (US); Robert J. Hanson, Lincoln, NE (US); and Peter L. Johnson, Mountain View, CA (US)
Assigned to Monolith Materials, Inc., Lincoln, NE (US)
Filed by MONOLITH MATERIALS, INC., Lincoln, NE (US)
Filed on Apr. 17, 2024, as Appl. No. 18/638,484.
Application 18/638,484 is a continuation of application No. 15/548,346, granted, now 11,987,712, previously published as PCT/US2016/015941, filed on Feb. 1, 2016.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/111,346, filed on Feb. 3, 2015.
Prior Publication US 2024/0343910 A1, Oct. 17, 2024
Int. Cl. C09C 1/48 (2006.01); B01J 19/08 (2006.01)

CPC C09C 1/485 (2013.01) [B01J 19/088 (2013.01); B01J 2219/0809 (2013.01); B01J 2219/0869 (2013.01); B01J 2219/0871 (2013.01); B01J 2219/0875 (2013.01); B01J 2219/0898 (2013.01); C01P 2006/12 (2013.01); C01P 2006/19 (2013.01)]

18 Claims

1. A system comprising:

(a) an enclosed particle generating reactor, comprising a plasma generating section containing one or more sets of plasma generating electrodes, connected to a reactor section containing hydrocarbon injectors, an interior dimension of the reactor section being reduced by at least 10% downstream from the plasma generating electrodes, and the hydrocarbon injectors being either at the point of maximum reactor size reduction or further downstream from the plasma generating electrodes,

(b) a degas apparatus coupled to the reactor, and