Patent ID: 9561486
Date: 2017-02-07
CPC Classifications: B01D,B01J,B09B,C01B,C07C,C10G,C10J,C10L,F01K,F02C,H05H,Y02E,Y02P

Claim:
1. A system for synthesizing a fuel fluid, the system comprising: a first processing chamber; one or more controllable plasma sources, each of the one or more controllable plasma sources configured to deliver a plasma discharge into the first processing chamber; one or more controllable sources of working fluids, each of the one or more controllable sources of working fluids configured to deliver an amount of a working fluid to a corresponding controllable plasma source; a vacuum system of the first processing chamber configured to maintain a vacuum pressure within the first processing chamber: one or more high voltage electric field generators in the first processing chamber configured to generate one or more high voltage electric fields, wherein each of the one or more high voltage electric fields stabilizes and ionizes the working fluid to generate a fluid plasma; a first heat exchange device in fluid communication with the first processing chamber, wherein a first fluid mixture comprising the fluid plasma is directed to the first heat exchange device; a coolant addition device in fluid communication with the first processing chamber and the first heat exchange device; a gas separator configured to receive a second fluid mixture from an output port of the first heat exchange device and to separate the second fluid mixture into one or more components; one or more gas holding containers to store the one or more components of the second fluid mixture, wherein each of the one or more gas holding containers comprises an outflow metering device operably coupled to a common supply duct; one or more gas composition sensors operably coupled to the common supply duct and configured to provide information related to a syngas mixture composition to one or more controllers; a catalyst bed configured to receive a portion of the one or more components of the second fluid mixture and to convert the portion of the one or more components into a fuel fluid; one or more sensors configured to sense at least one process control variable associated with one or more of the first processing chamber, the one or more controllable plasma sources, the one or more of the plurality of controllable sources of working fluids, the coolant addition device, and the first heat exchange device; at least one electronic device configured to receive information from the one or more sensors and to control the one or more controllable plasma sources, the one or more of the plurality of controllable sources of working fluids, and the first heat exchange device; and at least one receptacle configured to receive the fuel fluid.