An apparatus for a rotating packed bed reactor (RPB) that may be used to increase the mass-transfer rate between materials, such as a gas and a liquid, through the RPB. The RPB includes a housing, a motor, and a rotor disposed within the housing and operatively connected with the motor. The rotor includes a permeable packing configured to facilitate contact between a liquid and a gas passing through the permeable packing. The rotor includes a heat sink in contact with the permeable packing and configured to transfer heat away from the permeable packing. The heat sink includes a heat rate transfer gradient in a radially inward direction between an outer circumferential surface of the permeable packing and a central axis of the permeable packing.

A methane purification apparatus includes a flow path through which a gas containing methane flows, an ozone supply unit that supplies ozone to the gas, and a non-metallic heater that is provided downstream of the ozone supply unit in the flow path and heats the gas and the ozone. The heater supports a catalyst for purifying the methane by causing the ozone to react with the methane.

The present invention relates, in general, to a system and method for focusing gas distribution through at least one three-dimensionally (3D) printed lattice heating elements within an electric catalyst unit to promote ammonia dissociation. The present invention allows gaseous ammonia to be continuously heated under turbulence as it flows through non-linear paths within a 3D printed lattice heating element. The lattice structure of the heating element provides a balance between surface area and heat dissipation, allowing the heating elements to reach a suitable temperature to perform ammonia dissociation, but which are not oversaturated with heat which could result in failure or melting of the heating element.

A reactor for the thermal decomposition of a gaseous hydrocarbonaceous feedstock stream in an electrically heated moving bed composed of an electrically conductive granular material with deposition of elemental carbon on the granular material comprises an upper reactor section in which there are disposed a feed for the granular material and an outlet for a hydrogenous product stream, a middle reactor section, and a lower reactor section in which there is disposed a feeding device for the gaseous hydrocarbonaceous feedstock stream, and on the bottom side there is provided an outlet for the granular material, wherein the outlet comprises at least one funnel-shaped oscillating base that can be set in oscillation in vertical and/or horizontal direction by means of at least one first vibration generator and is connected to the lower reactor section via an oscillation-decoupling suspension.

A thermochemical gas splitting reactor system and a method of splitting gas are disclosed. The system includes a reactor including a reaction zone comprising active material, a gas heating zone, and a gas distribution plate assembly interposed between the reaction zone and the gas heating zone. Exemplary systems can include multiple reactors. The method can include providing one or more reactors and performing one or more of an oxidation and/or reduction process using each of the reactors.

Provided is a process of manufacturing light olefins, which is a fluidized bed catalytic naphtha cracking process having improved economic feasibility and decreased greenhouse gas emissions. The process of manufacturing light olefins according to the present invention has a decreased hot spot occurring when supplying an additional fuel oil and decreased tendency of catalyst deactivation by water, thereby improving economic feasibility of the process and reducing greenhouse gas emissions to allow construction of an environmentally friendly process.

Electrically heated reforming reactors and associated reforming processes are disclosed, which benefit from a number of advantages in terms of attaining and controlling the input of heat to catalytic conversion processes such as in the reforming of hydrocarbons (e.g., methane) using H.sub.2O and/or CO.sub.2 as an oxidant. The disclosed reactors provide the ability to target the input of heat to specific regions within a catalyst bed volume. This allows for the control of the temperature profile in one or more dimensions (e.g., axially and/or radially) and/or otherwise tailoring heat input for processing specific reformer feeds, achieving specific reformer products, effectively utilizing the catalyst, and/or compensating for a number of operating parameters (e.g., flow distribution). Dynamic control of the heat input may be used in response to changes in feed or product composition and/or catalyst activity.

A process and reactor system are provided for production of a CO-containing stream. The process includes the steps of supplying a carbon-containing first feed and an optional co-feed to the electrically-heated reactor and allowing them to undergo a CO-forming reaction, while heating the electrically-heated reactor by means of electrical power; and outletting a CO-containing stream from electrically-heated reactor, wherein the content of sulfur-containing species in the total gas mixture supplied to the electrically-heated reactormeasured in terms of H.sub.2Sis in the range of 1-50 ppm.