ELECTROCHEMICAL PROCESS FOR THE PREPARATION OF NITROGEN FERTILIZERS
    21.
    发明申请
    ELECTROCHEMICAL PROCESS FOR THE PREPARATION OF NITROGEN FERTILIZERS 有权
    用于制备氮肥的电化学工艺

    公开(公告)号:US20110120880A1

    公开(公告)日:2011-05-26

    申请号:US12905600

    申请日:2010-10-15

    IPC分类号: C25B1/00 C25B3/00

    摘要: Methods and apparatus for the preparation of nitrogen fertilizers including ammonium nitrate, urea, urea-ammonium nitrate, and/or ammonia, at low temperature and pressure, preferably at ambient temperature and pressure, utilizing a source of carbon, a source of nitrogen, and/or a source of hydrogen or hydrogen equivalent. Implementing an electrolyte serving as ionic charge carrier, (1) ammonium nitrate is produced via the reduction of a nitrogen source at the cathode and the oxidation of a nitrogen source at the anode; (2) urea or its isomers are produced via the simultaneous cathodic reduction of a carbon source and a nitrogen source; (3) ammonia is produced via the reduction of nitrogen source at the cathode and the oxidation of a hydrogen source or a hydrogen equivalent such as carbon monoxide or a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen at the anode; and (4) urea-ammonium nitrate is produced via the simultaneous cathodic reduction of a carbon source and a nitrogen source, and anodic oxidation of a nitrogen source. The electrolyte can be aqueous, non-aqueous, or solid. Additionally, described is the production of ammonia from nitrogen and impure hydrogen sources via integrated electrochemical and thermal reactions and electrochemical hydrogen purification.

    摘要翻译: 在低温和高压下,优选在环境温度和压力下,利用碳源,氮源和氮气源制备氮肥的方法和装置,包括硝酸铵,尿素,尿素 - 硝酸铵和/或氨 /或氢或氢当量的来源。 实施用作离子电荷载体的电解质,(1)通过在阴极处还原氮源和在阳极处的氮源氧化产生硝酸铵。 (2)尿素或其异构体通过碳源和氮源的同时阴极还原产生; (3)通过在阴极处还原氮源和在氢氧化氢或氢当量如一氧化碳或一氧化碳和氢的混合物在阳极处产生氨; 和(4)通过碳源和氮源的同时阴极还原和氮源的阳极氧化来生产硝酸铵 - 硝酸铵。 电解质可以是水性,非水性或固体。 另外,描述了通过集成的电化学和热反应以及电化学氢气纯化从氮气和不纯的氢源生产氨。

    ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM
    22.
    发明申请
    ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM 审中-公开
    能源储存系统

    公开(公告)号:US20100055512A1

    公开(公告)日:2010-03-04

    申请号:US12589914

    申请日:2009-10-30

    IPC分类号: H01M8/00

    摘要: A closed loop energy storage system configured with a hydrogen tank, an oxygen tank, a fuel cell stack and an electrolyzer. A heat exchanger freeze-dries the hydrogen and oxygen prior to their storage in their respective tanks. The heat exchanger also uses excess fuel cell heat to preheat streams of hydrogen and oxygen coming from the tanks. Phase separators serve both to separate water from hydrogen and oxygen, and to store the water. A thermal management system encloses all the system components except the tanks. An airfoil-shaped shell covers the system, and the larger of the two tanks extends substantially across the shell at its point of greatest camber thickness. The tanks are composed of polymer liners integral with composite shells.

    摘要翻译: 一种闭环储能系统,其配置有氢罐,氧气罐,燃料电池堆和电解槽。 热交换器在将氢气和氧气储存在各自的储罐中之前将其冷冻干燥。 热交换器还使用过量的燃料电池热来预热来自罐的氢气和氧气流。 相分离器用于将水与氢气和氧气分开,并储存水分。 一个热管理系统包含除坦克之外的所有系统组件。 翼型壳体覆盖系统,并且两个坦克中的较大的壳体在其最大外倾厚度的点处基本上延伸穿过壳体。 这些罐由聚合物衬垫组成,与复合壳一体。

    STRESS-INDUCED BANDGAP-SHIFTED SEMICONDUCTOR PHOTOELECTROLYTIC/PHOTOCATALYTIC/PHOTOVOLTAIC SURFACE AND METHOD FOR MAKING SAME
    23.
    发明申请
    STRESS-INDUCED BANDGAP-SHIFTED SEMICONDUCTOR PHOTOELECTROLYTIC/PHOTOCATALYTIC/PHOTOVOLTAIC SURFACE AND METHOD FOR MAKING SAME 有权
    应力诱导带状发光半导体光电/光电/光伏表面及其制造方法

    公开(公告)号:US20100040514A1

    公开(公告)日:2010-02-18

    申请号:US12604359

    申请日:2009-10-22

    IPC分类号: A61L2/00 H02N6/00

    摘要: Titania is a semiconductor and photocatalyst that is also chemically inert. With its bandgap of 3.0, to activate the photocatalytic property of titania requires light of about 390 nm wavelength, which is in the ultra-violet, where sunlight is very low in intensity. A method and devices are disclosed wherein stress is induced and managed in a thin film of titania in order to shift and lower the bandgap energy into the longer wavelengths that are more abundant in sunlight. Applications of this stress-induced bandgap-shifted titania photocatalytic surface include photoelectrolysis for production of hydrogen gas from water, photovoltaics for production of electricity, and photocatalysis for detoxification and disinfection.

    摘要翻译: 二氧化钛是化学惰性的半导体和光催化剂。 由于其带隙为3.0,为了激活二氧化钛的光催化性能,需要大约390nm波长的光,其是太阳光强度非常低的紫外线。 公开了一种方法和装置,其中以二氧化钛的薄膜诱导和管理应力,以便将带隙能量移动和降低到在阳光下更丰富的较长波长。 这种应力诱导的带隙二氧化钛光催化表面的应用包括从水中生产氢气的光电解,用于生产电的光伏,以及用于解毒和消毒的光催化。

    SHEAR REACTOR FOR VORTEX SYNTHESIS OF NANOTUBES
    24.
    发明申请
    SHEAR REACTOR FOR VORTEX SYNTHESIS OF NANOTUBES 审中-公开
    用于VORTEX合成纳米粒子的剪切反应器

    公开(公告)号:US20090263309A1

    公开(公告)日:2009-10-22

    申请号:US12368236

    申请日:2009-02-09

    IPC分类号: D01F9/12 B01J19/08

    摘要: Continuous nanotube synthesis by vortex deposition occurs in an axially-fed shear reactor comprising coaxial counter-rotating disk impeller/electrodes charged as anodes. Nanotube evolving ends, charged as cathodes, point toward the anode axis of rotation and protrude into the space between the anodes. Radial vortices in a shear layer of the space, between the boundary layers on the impeller/electrodes, spin cations to be deposited on evolving nanotube ends approximately at the vortex axis, so deposition is by swirling cathode fall. The evolved nanotubes are extracted mechanically, and they conduct electrons from charging means to charge the evolving ends as cathodes. The preferential synthesis of metallic carbon nanotubes is due to the greater resistance of non-metallic structures such as graphite or semiconductive structures. Ozone serves to oxidize non-metallic structures and to functionalize the loose ends of nanotube fragments. Dopants can be added to the evolving nanotubes by introduction of dopants at the periphery because the evolving ends are maintained in stable locations. Or dopants can be added by the simultaneous decomposition of gases (for example, carbon dioxide and nitrogen gas) within the reactor or in an external reactor.

    摘要翻译: 通过涡旋沉积的连续纳米管合成发生在轴向馈送的剪切反应器中,该反应器包括以阳极充电的同轴对转盘式叶轮/电极。 纳米管演化结束,充电为阴极,指向阳极旋转轴线并突出到阳极之间的空间。 在叶轮/电极之间的边界层之间的空间的剪切层中的径向涡旋,旋转阳离子大约在涡旋轴上沉积在放出的纳米管末端,因此沉积是通过旋转阴极下落。 演化的纳米管机械地提取,并且它们从充电装置传导电子,以将其作为阴极充电。 金属碳纳米管的优先合成是由于非金属结构如石墨或半导电结构的电阻更大。 臭氧用于氧化非金属结构并使纳米管碎片的松散末端官能化。 可以通过在周边引入掺杂剂将掺杂剂加入到演变的纳米管中,因为在稳定的位置保持了演变的结束。 或者可以通过在反应器内或外部反应器中同时分解气体(例如二氧化碳和氮气)来添加掺杂剂。

    DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PHOTOLYSIS-ASSISTED ELECTROLYSIS
    25.
    发明申请
    DEVICE AND METHOD FOR PHOTOLYSIS-ASSISTED ELECTROLYSIS 审中-公开
    用于光解辅助电解的装置和方法

    公开(公告)号:US20090032391A1

    公开(公告)日:2009-02-05

    申请号:US12114718

    申请日:2008-05-02

    IPC分类号: C01B3/02

    CPC分类号: C25B1/003 Y02E60/368

    摘要: A photolysis-assisted electrolysis device comprises at least one fluidized bed disposed in the device's housing wherein the fluidized bed comprises a reaction medium and photolysis-catalyzing nanoparticles suspended in the reaction medium. When the fluidized bed is exposed to light, the nanoparticles catalyze the photolysis of the reaction medium to form donor electrons. The donor electrons promote reduction of the reaction medium during an electrolysis reaction, for example, the reduction of water to form hydrogen gas.

    摘要翻译: 光解辅助电解装置包括设置在装置壳体中的至少一个流化床,其中流化床包括反应介质和光解催化纳米颗粒悬浮在反应介质中。 当流化床暴露于光时,纳米粒子催化反应介质的光解以形成供体电子。 供体电子在电解反应期间促进反应介质的还原,例如还原水以形成氢气。

    Photoelectrolysis cells, and related devices and processes
    26.
    发明授权
    Photoelectrolysis cells, and related devices and processes 有权
    光电解池,以及相关设备和工艺

    公开(公告)号:US07481914B2

    公开(公告)日:2009-01-27

    申请号:US11394881

    申请日:2006-03-31

    IPC分类号: C25C1/02 C25B11/06

    摘要: A photoelectrolysis cell is described herein. The cell includes a photoelectrode based on a material having the general formula (Ln1−xMx)(Nb1−yTay)O1+xN2−x. Ln is at least one lanthanide element; M is at least one alkaline earth metal; 0≦x≦0.99; and 0≦y≦1. The photoelectrolysis cell further includes a counter-electrode formed from at least one metal or metallic alloy. An electrolyte which is in contact with both the photoelectrode and the counter-electrode is another component of the cell, along with a means for collecting hydrogen produced by the cell. A related process for producing hydrogen in a photoelectrolysis cell is also described.

    摘要翻译: 本文描述了光电解池。 电池包括基于具有通式(Ln1-xMx)(Nb1-yTay)O1 + xN2-x的材料的光电极。 Ln是至少一种镧系元素; M是至少一种碱土金属; 0 <= x <= 0.99; 0 <= y <= 1。 光电解池还包括由至少一种金属或金属合金形成的对电极。 与光电极和对电极接触的电解质是电池的另一个组分,以及用于收集由电池产生的氢的装置。 还描述了在光电解池中产生氢的相关方法。

    Solar cell electrolysis of water to make hydrogen and oxygen
    27.
    发明授权
    Solar cell electrolysis of water to make hydrogen and oxygen 有权
    太阳能电池电解水制氢气

    公开(公告)号:US07241950B2

    公开(公告)日:2007-07-10

    申请号:US10791958

    申请日:2004-03-03

    IPC分类号: H01L31/048

    摘要: A water permeable electrode for electrochemical splitting of water having a light sensitive catalytic material layer which includes a light sensitive catalytic material and a semiconductor, a polymer electrolyte membrane layer, a metallic substrate layer disposed there between adjacent the polymer electrolyte membrane layer, and at least one photovoltaic device connected in series to the light sensitive catalytic material layer and disposed between the light sensitive catalytic material layer and the metallic substrate layer.

    摘要翻译: 一种用于电化学分解水的透水电极,其具有感光催化材料层,其包括光敏催化材料和半导体,聚合物电解质膜层,设置在其之间的与金属基底层相邻的聚合物电解质膜层,至少 一个光电器件串联连接到光敏催化剂材料层并且设置在光敏催化材料层和金属基底层之间。