Rocket motor syngas process
Rocket motor synthesis gas process This is a really big idea, one that I really have no hope of maintaining a patent position on the basic idea. The crux of this invention is that rocket motors are the most efficient heat engines other than a gun. I have proposed reacting methane gas with only enough oxygen to partially convert this mixture to synthesis gas (carbon monoxide and hydrogen primarily, but also including water, carbon dioxide). In general this process is referred to as partial combustion, and it is used in several commercial plants which convert natural gas to synthetic oil via a Friedel crafts synthesis from the syngas that is actually produced by the partial combustion. Existing partial combustors however do not harvest useful work during the partial combustion process. Using a rocket engine to perform the partial combustion is potentially a way to have a coproduction of energy and synthesis gas. The key realization for me was that the higher is the temperature, and t