Molten Media Extraction
Electrolysis Alloy Splitting
Molten Luminesce
Molten Media Extraction
The use of Molten Media is one style of recovery, separation and extraction.
Thermal processes that utilize molten salts or molten metals may assist in the recovery or separation of basic elements
from complex materials.
The Molten Media may be used as a catalyst or in some cases may assist directly in the reduction reaction.
Molten Media may be used as a method to convert CO2 gases into solid recovered carbon in a process known as
CO2 splitting.
Sparging hydrocarbon gases through a bath of molten metals, in a process referred to as
hydrocarbon pyrolysis
is a method of producing both hydrogen and solid carbon.
An alternative approach may be the use of a
Microwave Catalyst Splitting
reactor.
Molten
Salts
are commonly used in metal refining and slag recovery.
Methane Pyrolysis
Thermal reduction of CH4 derived from Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) may prove to be an efficient method for producing
recovered Hydrogen and an effective way to sequester or fix CO2 into solid recovered
Carbon.
Looking at the structure of CH4 vs. H2O shows that breaking the molecular bonds releases twice the amount of Hydrogen as a
yield from Methane as apposed to water splitting.
The energy required to break the molecular bonds of carbon and hydrogen is approximately 7 to 8 times less than that of
splitting Hydrogen from Oxygen.
The nature and size of a typical pyrolysis system may allow for the production of large volumes of Hydrogen,
far in excess in that of common
electrolysis
units in the same comparable time frame.
The rapid regeneration of a relatively small amount of Hydrogen may allow for the processing
of a substantial volume of
CO2
for conversion into methane and subsequently for solidification via pyrolysis.
Molten Media Electrolysis
The use of Molten Media Electrolysis may assist in the reaction to reduce feedstock materials such as oxides.
The molten media may act as a catalyst or may participate in the reaction as a reactant.
Highly reactive feedstock materials may require the use of an intermediate molten media catalyst to create
a stable
alloy
which may further be refined in a separate additional step.
The design of a system for the Extraction and Refining through the reduction of oxides and salts
with the use of Molten Media Electrolysis may be a viable recovery method.
Molten Media Electrolysis along with offgas collection and containment may be operated as a clean emission process.
Molten Media Alloy Splitting
Molter state separation of different materials is largely a natural stratification process.
Natural Density layering of Molten Materials that tend to Stratify by gravity,
such as iron from slag in a blast furnace or salt from aluminum in a dross recovery rotary furnace.
Molten Media Alloy Splitting of naturally bonding or complex alloys may require some additional coaxing.
The possibility exists to seductively split alloys by reducing materials by inducing Stratification with an electric current.
Molten Density Stratification
Expanding on the Molten Density Stratification
effect
it is possible to operate a continuous multi-layer extraction process.
The design of a continuous feed
furnace
with several tap holes at varying heights allows for the flexible extraction
of designated materials as the molten layers rise and fall.
Molten Density Separation of complex matrix waste streams may be a viable option for the segregation of
certain mixes of metals, minerals and impurities.
Incandescent Luminesce
The opportunity to
harvest
energy and convert it directly into electricity by capturing Incandescent Luminesce
is compatible and well suited for the Recovery 2.0 process.
High intensity light generated from thermal operations such as
Molten Media
Extraction,
Oxidation
/Reduction & Displacement,
Oxy Combustion,
Plasma Arc Units
and other high temperature processes, may be harnessed in strategically designed reactor ports.
The reactor portals house customized layered, multi-junction Photovoltaic cells, that may be tuned to the frequency of light
radiated by the specific material being recovered within the reactor.
A relatively optimum yield of electricity output may be obtained from the high LUX intensity emissions that blanket
the Photovoltaic cells with the equivalent of a full sky coverage.
The development of standardized harvest modules that are compatible that may operate alongside, or attached to thermal reactors,
allow for an effective Incandescent Luminesce light to electricity program.
