Membrane, membrane electrode assembly, and water electrolyzer including the same

    公开(公告)号:US11560632B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-24

    申请号:US16586574

    申请日:2019-09-27

    摘要: A water electrolyzer comprises a membrane, a cathode and an anode. The membrane comprises a first membrane layer comprising a first ion-conductive polymer, a second membrane layer comprising a second ion-conductive polymer, and a platinized nanostructured layer disposed between the first layer and the second layer. The platinized nanostructured layer comprises close-packed whiskers having at least one of platinum or platinum oxide disposed thereon. The cathode is disposed on the membrane and comprises a first catalyst consisting essentially of both metallic Pt and Pt oxide. The anode is disposed on the opposite surface of the membrane and comprises a second catalyst comprising at least 95 percent by weight of collectively metallic Ir and Ir oxide, calculated as elemental Ir, based on the total weight of the second catalyst, wherein at least one of metallic Ir or Ir oxide is present. Membranes and methods of making them are also disclosed.

    APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR UTILIZING OFF-GASES FROM A POWER-TO-X SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20230020698A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-19

    申请号:US17784532

    申请日:2020-12-15

    摘要: A power-to-X system for the utilization of off-gases, includes an electrolyzer for generating hydrogen H2 and oxygen O2, a unit, connected to the electrolyzer, for processing the hydrogen H2, for removing any remaining water H2O and oxygen O2 from the generated stream of hydrogen H2, a compressor, connected to the unit for processing the hydrogen H2, for compressing the hydrogen H2, and a chemical reactor, connected to the compressor, for producing a synthesis gas consisting of hydrogen H2 and carbon dioxide CO2 that can be added. An oxy-fuel combustion system to which non-condensable off-gases from the chemical reactor and oxygen O2 from the electrolyzer can be supplied, and carbon dioxide CO2 generated during the combustion of the off-gases in the oxy-fuel combustion system can be returned to the stream of hydrogen H2 downstream of the electrolyzer via a return line.

    INTEGRATED HYDROGEN PRODUCTION METHOD AND SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20230013911A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-19

    申请号:US17856220

    申请日:2022-07-01

    IPC分类号: C25B1/04 C25B11/047

    摘要: Herein discussed is a hydrogen production system comprising a first reactor zone and a second reactor zone, wherein both reactor zones comprise an ionically conducting membrane, wherein the first zone is capable of reforming a hydrocarbon electrochemically and the second zone is capable of performing water gas shift reactions electrochemically, wherein the electrochemical reforming reactions involve the exchange of an ion through the membrane to oxidize the hydrocarbon and wherein electrochemical water gas shift reactions involve the exchange of an ion through the membrane and include forward water gas shift reactions, or reverse water gas shift reactions, or both. In an embodiment, the membrane is mixed conducting. In an embodiment, the membrane comprises an electronically conducting phase and an ionically conducting phase.

    Electrochemical process for the production of pressurized gaseous hydrogen by electrolysis then by electrochemical conversion

    公开(公告)号:US11549186B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-01-10

    申请号:US17041482

    申请日:2019-04-03

    申请人: ERGOSUP

    IPC分类号: C25B1/04 C25B15/08 C25B9/70

    摘要: An electrochemical process implements, in a decoupled manner, a first step of electrolysis of an electrolyte to produce gaseous oxygen in a chamber and a second step of electrochemical conversion of H+ ions into gaseous hydrogen in a chamber which contains a liquid phase and a gas phase not dissolved in the liquid phase. Gaseous hydrogen produced in the conversion step is partly present in the gaseous headspace of chamber and as bubbles in the electrolyte, and partly dissolved in the electrolyte which is saturated with hydrogen. The electrolyte has at least one redox pair (A/B) forming at least one intermediate vector enabling the decoupling of the first and second steps. The interface between the gas and liquid phases is increased during the second step to accelerate the diffusion, from liquid phase to gas phase, of the dissolved hydrogen able to supersaturate the electrolyte. Pressurized gaseous hydrogen is then collected.

    Process For Producing Synthetic Hydrocarbons From Biomass

    公开(公告)号:US20220396743A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-15

    申请号:US17774689

    申请日:2020-11-06

    摘要: A process for preparing synthetic hydrocarbons from a biomass feedstock is provided. The process involves electrolyzing water in an electrolyzer to produce oxygen and hydrogen, using the generated oxygen to gasify a biomass feedstock under partial oxidation reaction conditions to generate a hydrogen lean syngas, adding at least a portion of the generated hydrogen to the hydrogen lean syngas to formulate hydrogen rich syngas, which is reacted a Fischer Tropsch (FT) reactor to produce the synthetic hydrocarbons and water. At least a portion of the water produced in the FT reaction is recycled for use in the electrolysis step, and optionally using heat generated from the FT reaction to dry the biomass feedstock.

    MODULAR, TRANSPORTABLE CLEAN HYDROGEN-AMMONIA MAKER

    公开(公告)号:US20220388855A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-08

    申请号:US17826641

    申请日:2022-05-27

    摘要: A containerized system for producing anhydrous ammonia from air, water and a power source, includes a containerized hydrogen production unit that produces hydrogen gas from a water source by low temperature electrolyser, high temperature electrolyser, battolyser or by other methods; a containerized nitrogen production unit comprising an onboard air compression and storage unit that produces and stores pressurized air, a pressure swing adsorption process or other methods that use regenerative molecule that does not need any maintenance, which intakes compressed air and produces nitrogen gas through a series of adsorption and desorption processes, or other such methods of producing nitrogen from air; a containerized ammonia production unit comprising a gas booster that increases the pressure of a mixture of the hydrogen gas and the nitrogen gas using the pressurized air; a multi-reactor assembly joint in series or in parallel; and a recycle loop that separates the ammonia from unreacted gases.

    QUANTUM-DOT LIGAND, QUANTUM-DOT CATALYST AND QUANTUM-DOT DEVICE

    公开(公告)号:US20220379289A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-12-01

    申请号:US17764928

    申请日:2021-06-17

    发明人: Wenhai MEI

    摘要: The present disclosure provides a quantum-dot ligand, a quantum-dot catalyst and a quantum-dot device. The quantum-dot ligand includes: a first ligand having a first group and a second group and a second ligand having an inorganic ion, in which a coordination bond is formed between the first group and a surface of a quantum dot, a hydrogen bond is formed between the second group and a hydroxyl group; and a coordination bond is formed between the inorganic ion and the surface of the quantum dot. The quantum-dot catalyst of the present disclosure can enhance a catalytic activity of the quantum dots and improve the catalytic performance.

    Catalysts and processes for the direct production of liquid fuels from carbon dioxide and hydrogen

    公开(公告)号:US11498886B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-11-15

    申请号:US16873561

    申请日:2020-05-04

    摘要: Embodiments of the present invention relates to two improved catalysts and associated processes that directly converts carbon dioxide and hydrogen to liquid fuels. The catalytic converter is comprised of two catalysts in series that are operated at the same pressures to directly produce synthetic liquid fuels or synthetic natural gas. The carbon conversion efficiency for CO2 to liquid fuels is greater than 45%. The fuel is distilled into a premium diesel fuels (approximately 70 volume %) and naphtha (approximately 30 volume %) which are used directly as “drop-in” fuels without requiring any further processing. Any light hydrocarbons that are present with the carbon dioxide are also converted directly to fuels. This process is directly applicable to the conversion of CO2 collected from ethanol plants, cement plants, power plants, biogas, carbon dioxide/hydrocarbon mixtures from secondary oil recovery, and other carbon dioxide/hydrocarbon streams. The catalyst system is durable, efficient and maintains a relatively constant level of fuel productivity over long periods of time without requiring re-activation or replacement.