Patent ID: 11883810
Assignee: SYZYGY PLASMONICS INC.
Field: Chemical engineering (Chemistry)
Classification: CPC B  H | IPC B  H

Claim 20:
21. A method for transforming at least one reactant gas, the method comprising:
supplying at least one reactant input gas via at least one delivery channel into a reactor cell that comprises at least a first plasmonic photocatalyst and a second plasmonic photocatalyst on a catalyst support packed as a fixed bed substantially filling an enclosure, wherein the first plasmonic photocatalyst comprises a catalyst coupled to a plasmonic material having a first plasmon resonant frequency designed to catalyze a desired chemical reaction by maximizing absorption of at least a first predetermined target wavelength in the electromagnetic spectrum, and wherein the second plasmonic photocatalyst differs from the first plasmonic photocatalyst and maximizes absorption of at least a second predetermined target wavelength in the electromagnetic spectrum;
illuminating, via at least one light source, substantially an entirety of at least an interior of the enclosure while the at least one reactant input gas is passed through the enclosure; and
outputting at least one output gas from the reactor cell,
wherein, upon illuminating substantially the entirety of at least the interior of the enclosure while the at least one reactant input gas is passed through the enclosure, the reactor cell is configured to transform the at least one reactant input gas into the at least one output gas via the at least one reactant input gas reacting with at least the first plasmonic photocatalyst or the second plasmonic photocatalyst.