Patent ID: 9388046
Filing Date: 2016-07-12
CPC Classification: B01J,C01B,C10B,C10L,C21B,C21C,C22B,H01B,Y02E,Y02P,Y02W

Claim Text:
1. A high-carbon biogenic reagent production system, said system comprising: (a) a material feed system configured to introduce a carbon-containing feedstock, wherein said material feed system is optionally physically integrated with a multiple-zone reactor; (b) an optional dryer, disposed in operable communication with said material feed system, configured to remove moisture contained within a carbon-containing feedstock, and optionally configured as a drying zone within a multiple-zone reactor; (c) an optional preheating zone disposed in operable communication with said pyrolysis zone: (d) a multiple-zone reactor, disposed in operable communication with said material feed system or said dryer, if present, wherein said multiple-zone reactor contains at least one pyrolysis zone disposed in operable communication with a spatially separated cooling zone, and wherein said multiple-zone reactor is configured with an outlet to remove condensable vapors and non-condensable gases from solids; (e) a cooler, disposed in operable communication with said multiple-zone reactor and optionally disposed within said multiple-zone reactor; (f) a carbon recovery unit, disposed in operable communication with said cooler; (g) an optional purging means for removing oxygen from the system, wherein the optional purging means optionally comprises one or more inlets to introduce a inert gas, and one or more outlets to remove said inert gas and displaced oxygen from said system, or is a deaerater disposed between said material feed system or said dryer, if present and said multiple-zone reactor; (h) an optional process gas heater disposed in operable communication with said outlet, wherein said process gas heater is configured to receive a separate fuel and an oxidant into a combustion chamber, adapted for combustion of said fuel and at least a portion of said condensable vapors and/or said non-condensable gases; (i) an optional material enrichment unit, disposed in operable communication with said cooler, configured for combining condensable vapors, optionally in at least partially condensed form, with said solids to increase the carbon content of said high-carbon biogenic reagent obtained from said carbon recovery unit; (j) an optional separate pyrolysis unit adapted to further pyrolyze said high-carbon biogenic reagent to further increase its carbon content; and (k) an optional sizing unit disposed in operable communication with said carbon recovery unit, wherein said sizing unit is capable of reducing particle size of said high-carbon biogenic reagent and/or forming structural objects from said high-carbon biogenic reagent, wherein if the system comprises the optional process gas heater, said system optionally further comprises: is optionally configured to combine said additive with said carbon-containing feedstock, is interposed between said material feed system and said multiple-zone reactor, is disposed in operable communication with said multiple-zone reactor, is disposed in operable communication with said cooler, is interposed between said cooler and said carbon recovery unit, and/or is disposed in operable communication with said carbon recovery unit.