Patent ID: 8197787
Filing Date: 2012-06-12
Classification: B01J,C01B,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A method including: (a) injecting a feed material into a reactant liquid, the feed material including a carbon-bearing material; (b) maintaining carbon from the carbon-bearing material in contact with the reactant liquid for a period of time sufficient to liberate carbon atoms from the carbon-bearing material or from reaction products of the carbon-bearing material and place the liberated carbon atoms in an excited state; (c) collecting carbon product in a collection volume, the collection volume being defined at a lowermost extent by a surface of the reactant liquid and having a lateral extent defined between laterally spaced apart chamber walls extending transverse to the surface of the reactant liquid, the collected carbon product being formed from the liberated carbon atoms which traverse the surface of the reactant liquid to reach the collection volume while such liberated carbon atoms are in the excited state, and the collected carbon product including carbon structures made up of one or more hexagonal carbon atom rings; and (d) as the carbon product is collected in the collection volume, introducing a fluid directly into the collection volume so that the fluid does not traverse the surface of the reactant liquid in order to reach the collection volume.