Patent ID: 11873743
Assignee: RONDO ENERGY, INC.
Field: Chemical engineering (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC F  B  C  H  Y | IPC B  F  H

Claim 26:
27. A method for material activation, comprising:
receiving, by a thermal energy storage (TES) system of a material activation system, energy supplied by an energy source;
storing, by the TES system, the received energy as thermal energy by heating a storage medium with the received energy;
circulating, by the TES system, a non-combustive fluid through the heated storage medium;
applying, by a pre-heater of the material activation system, thermal energy derived from the circulated non-combustive fluid to heat a raw material to a first temperature;
providing the heated raw material as an input to a material heating system of the material activation system; and
applying, by the material heating system, thermal energy derived from the circulated non-combustive fluid to heat the heated raw material to a second temperature and produce an activated material.