Carbon Catalyzed
Natural Gas Processing
Steve Chu
02-21
EISG Project
Title: Carbon Catalyzed Natural Gas Processing
EISG Grant Number: 02-21
PIER Area: Environmentally-Preferred Advanced Generation
Principal Investigator: Steve Chu
Contact Information: Phone:
(612) 877-0765 email: sunytek@aol.com
Organization: Sunnyside Technologies, Inc.
Grant Amount: $75,000
Grant Term: 12 Months
Project Description:
§ Proposes to determine the feasibility of producing both CO-free hydrogen for PEM fuel cells and nanostructured carbon for carbon fuel cells through a precisely controlled chemical processing of natural gas catalyzed by nanostructured carbon resulting in four times the H2 yield of conventional thermal cracking process.
Proposed Outcomes:
§ A spouted bed chemical reactor system will be modified and tested as part of the project.
Anticipated Benefits:
§ Potential to provide high quality hydrogen fuel and carbon fuel from natural gas without the production of the greenhouse gas CO2.
§ Potential to provide the correct type of carbon fuel for carbon fuel cells, which are capable of energy efficiencies up to 80%.