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

Claim 13:
14. 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;
receiving the circulated non-combustive fluid at a first inlet in a material heating system of the material activation system;
injecting a raw material via a second inlet positioned above the first inlet in the material heating system; and
directing the non-combustive fluid in an up-flow configuration that suspends the raw material in the material heating system and applies thermal energy derived from the circulated non-combustive fluid to the raw material to produce an activated material.