Thermal- and photo-assisted aftertreatment of nitrogen oxides

    公开(公告)号:US11300031B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-04-12

    申请号:US16659358

    申请日:2019-10-21

    Abstract: Systems and methods for treating automotive vehicle emissions on board an automotive vehicle include the use of waste heat recovery, electrochemical water splitting, phototcatalytic water splitting, and selective catalytic reduction. Waste heat recovery is used to power electrochemical water splitting, or photocatalytic water splitting. Photons collected from a solar panel are used in photocatalytic water splitting, or in photo-assisted selective catalytic reduction. Hydrogen gas generated by water splitting is used in conjunction with catalytic reduction units to catalytically reduce NOx in an engine exhaust gas.

    PROCESS TO CAPTURE SOx ONBOARD VEHICLES AND SHIPS

    公开(公告)号:US20210404360A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-12-30

    申请号:US16917148

    申请日:2020-06-30

    Abstract: Provided is a process that may comprise cooling an engine exhaust emissions comprising SOx on a vehicle that may come from an engine. The cooled engine exhaust emissions comprising SOx may be passed to one or more absorption units. The SOx may be extracted from the engine exhaust emissions with a sorbent supported on solid porous media in an absorption unit on the vehicle to form an absorbed SOx. The absorbed SOx may be desorbed, followed by forming one or more SOx product from the desorbed SOx. The one or more SOx product may be unloaded to an off-vehicle facility.

    Thermal- And Photo-Assisted Aftertreatment Of Nitrogen Oxides

    公开(公告)号:US20210115830A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-04-22

    申请号:US16659358

    申请日:2019-10-21

    Abstract: Systems and methods for treating automotive vehicle emissions on board an automotive vehicle include the use of waste heat recovery, electrochemical water splitting, phototcatalytic water splitting, and selective catalytic reduction. Waste heat recovery is used to power electrochemical water splitting, or photocatalytic water splitting. Photons collected from a solar panel are used in photocatalytic water splitting, or in photo-assisted selective catalytic reduction. Hydrogen gas generated by water splitting is used in conjunction with catalytic reduction units to catalytically reduce NOx in an engine exhaust gas.

    Systems and methods for constructing and testing composite photonic structures

    公开(公告)号:US10132758B2

    公开(公告)日:2018-11-20

    申请号:US15644919

    申请日:2017-07-10

    Abstract: Systems and methods are disclosed relating to composite photonic materials used to design structures and detecting material deformation for the purpose of monitoring structural health of physical structures. According to one aspect, a composite structure is provided that includes a base material, an optical diffraction grating and one or more fluorophore materials constructed such that localized perturbations create a measurable change in the structure's diffraction pattern. An inspection device is also provided that is configured to detect perturbations in the composite structure. The inspection device is configured to emit an inspecting radiation into the structure and capture the refracted radiation and measure the change in the diffraction pattern and quantify the perturbation based on the wavelength and the angular information for the diffracted radiation.

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