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Method for making pure hydrogen

Patent ·
OSTI ID:6741973
This patent describes a method of commercially producing substantially pure hydrogen gas by providing a bed of solid fuel heated to incandescence in a closed reaction chamber and passing a crackable aliphatic hydrocarbon through the incandescent bed of fuel so as to reduce the hydrocarbon to a mixture of completely and incompletely decomposed hydrocarbon gases. The process continues by recirculating said mixture of hydrocarbon gases through the same incandescent bed of fuel until complete decomposition results and finally withdrawing the pure hydrogen from said chamber.
Assignee:
JMT; EDB-87-061851
Patent Number(s):
US 2200607
OSTI ID:
6741973
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English