Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Methane synthesis device
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Application No.: US17708838Application Date: 2022-03-30
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Publication No.: US11661383B2Publication Date: 2023-05-30
- Inventor: Yoshitsugu Sone , Omar Mendoza , Asuka Shima , Takayuki Abe , Mitsuhiro Inoue , Hiroshige Matsumoto , Yuki Terayama , Motohiko Sato
- Applicant: Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
- Applicant Address: JP Chofu
- Assignee: JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY
- Current Assignee: JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY
- Current Assignee Address: JP Chofu
- Agency: McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP
- Priority: JP 17217736 2017.11.10
- Main IPC: C07C1/12
- IPC: C07C1/12 ; C25B9/015 ; C25B9/77 ; C25B3/03 ; C25B11/053 ; B01J35/04 ; C25B1/04 ; C25B15/08

Abstract:
An object is to provide a methane synthesis device having as a whole a reduced size and a simplified configuration. A methane synthesis device 100 is composed of respective components from an end plate 2 at the leftmost side to an end plate 23 at the rightmost side and is compactly assembled by fastening plural bolts and nuts to bring these individual components into tightly contact with each other. The components may be divided into a Sabatier reaction unit of signs 3 to 9, a water electrolysis unit of signs 13 to 19, and other components. Hydrogen gas generated in the water electrolysis unit is mixed with carbon dioxide gas and supplied to the Sabatier reaction unit, and methane is synthesized in the Sabatier reaction unit. The size of the device is reduced as a whole and configuration is simplified by integrally stacking the water electrolysis unit, the Sabatier reaction unit, a carbon dioxide supplying unit, and a hydrogen gas supplying unit.
Public/Granted literature
- US20220267232A1 Methane Synthesis Device Public/Granted day:2022-08-25
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