| Class / Patent application number | Description | Number of patent applications / Date published |
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| 205339000 | Utilizing magnet or magnetic field during synthesis | 11 |
| 20100072074 | ELECTROLYSIS OF SPENT FUEL POOL WATER FOR HYDROGEN GENERATION - A method for the electrolytic production of hydrogen where radiation excited water from a spent fuel pool of a nuclear power plant is delivered to one or more electrolysers where DC current is applied to pairs of electrodes in the electrolysers to form hydrogen and oxygen. The hydrogen is collected. The collection of hydrogen can be carried out in a grid energy storage system to produce large quantities of hydrogen during low grid demand for electricity with little or no hydrogen during high grid electricity demand, | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100078332 | Recovery of Soluble Salts From Aqueous Solutions - The invention allows the formation of insoluble chemical compounds in a liquid medium by way of physical stimuli. Highly soluble salts are transformed into insoluble compounds so that they can be separated from aqueous solution to obtain a benefit from both the separated salts and the purified residual liquid. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100181204 | Nickel-Zinc-Aluminum-Hydrogen Production Reactor and Methods of Use - The technology provides apparatus and methods for generating hydrogen without applying electrical energy from an outside source. An exemplary apparatus has an outer housing having an interior divided into an upper portion and a lower portion separated by a septum. The lower portion contains an electrolyte and a composite electrode at least partially immersed in the electrolyte. The electrolyte includes zinc hydroxide dissolved therein. The composite electrode has an aluminum tube enclosing at least one magnet. An outer surface of the electrode housing is at least partially covered with nano-particles held in place by magnetic attraction of the at least one magnet to form the electrode. The magnetically-adherent nano-particles form a second electrode, in direct contact with the first electrode. The generator apparatus has a vent in communication with the upper portion of the interior of the outer housing for removal of generated hydrogen. | 07-22-2010 |
| 20110079516 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ISOTOPE SEPARATION - An anode and cathode for an electrolytic cell configured as a low inductance transmission line to enable control of an interphase at an electrode surface. The anode and cathode are coupled to a switched current source by a low inductance path that includes a parallel plate transmission line, a coaxial transmission line, or both. The switched current source provides fast switching between current sources to provide fast charging and discharging of the double-layer capacitance associated with the electrode surface so that an isotope may be selectively transported to the electrode surface for oxidation or reduction. A photon source may be used to create a population of isotope containing species within the electrolyte. An additional static magnetic field and/or an alternating current magnetic excitation source may be used to modify the composition of the population of species containing the isotope to be separated. | 04-07-2011 |
| 20110120879 | ELECTROWINNING APPARATUS AND PROCESS - Apparatus and processes are disclosed for electrowinning metal from a fluid stream. A representative apparatus comprises at least one spouted bed reactor wherein each said reactor includes an anolyte chamber comprising an anode and configured for containing an anolyte, a catholyte chamber comprising a current collector and configured for containing a particulate cathode bed and a flowing stream of an electrically conductive metal-containing fluid, and a membrane separating said anolyte chamber and said catholyte chamber, an inlet for an electrically conductive metal-containing fluid stream; and a particle bed churning device configured for spouting particle bed particles in the catholyte chamber independently of the flow of said metal-containing fluid stream. In operation, reduced heavy metals or their oxides are recovered from the cathode particles. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20130068628 | METHOD FOR EXTRACTING GALLIUM FROM FLY ASH - Disclosed is a method for extracting gallium from fly ash, which comprises the following steps: crushing the fly ash and removing Fe by magnetic separation; then dissolving it by using hydrochloride acid ( | 03-21-2013 |
| 20140144784 | METHOD FOR RECOVERING ELEMENTAL SILICON FROM SILICON SLUDGE BY ELECTROLYSIS IN NON-AQUEOUS ELECTROLYTE - The present invention relates to a method for recovering elemental silicon from silicon sludge by electrolysis in a non-aqueous electrolyte. The recovery method of silicon according to the present invention can achieve direct reduction of silicon by electrolysis at a low temperature (below 200° C.), control the structure of silicon by a simple process and a change in electrolysis conditions, and perform a continuous process by adding a silicon salt. | 05-29-2014 |
| 20150034492 | WATER ELECTROLYSIS SYSTEMS AND METHODS - Membrane-less electrolysis systems including an electrolysis chamber having an inlet for water, a cathode associated with the electrolysis chamber that includes a plurality of apertures within the cathode that fluidly couple the chamber with a cathode fluid pathway that is fluidly coupled to a hydrogen gas collector, an anode associated with the electrolysis chamber that similarly includes a plurality of apertures fluidly coupling the chamber with an anode fluid pathway that is fluidly coupled to an oxygen gas collector, a power source electrically coupled to the cathode and anode, and a pump fluidly coupled with the water reservoir and electrolysis chamber so that the pump is configured to pump water into the electrolysis chamber, through the cathode and anode apertures, into the cathode and anode fluid pathways, respectively, and into the product gas collectors. | 02-05-2015 |
| 20150322581 | LANTHANIDE ELECTROCHEMISTRY - Electrochemically reacting a lanthanide or actinide in solvent at a working electrode; wherein the solvent comprises an organic solvent such as acetonitrile which have a dielectric constant of at least three; wherein the solvent system further comprises an electrolyte; wherein the working electrode comprises an ionically conducting or permeable film such as a fluorosulfonate film; wherein at least one ligand such as triflate distinct from the ionically conducting or permeable film is present; wherein the ligand is chemically similar to a structure in the ionically conducting or ionically permeable film; and optionally wherein the electrochemical oxidation or reduction is carried out under the influence of a magnetic field which favorably enhances the reaction. Improved electrochemical methods, identification, and separation can be achieved. Also, an electrochemical device, wherein the device is adapted to employ the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) at the cathode, wherein the cathode is magnetically modified, or the electrolyte comprises at least one lanthanide or actinide, or both. | 11-12-2015 |
| 20160032464 | MULTIFACTORIAL HYDROGEN REACTOR - The present application provides a device for generating hydrogen gas having a plurality of discharge electrode pairs, at least a first oxidation element and a second oxidation element, and at least one electrolysis electrode pair. The at least one electrolysis electrode pair is configured to perform electrolysis by flowing an electric current through the water and using heat generated by the oxidation of the first and second oxidation elements. | 02-04-2016 |
| 20160032474 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR REMOVAL OF METALS FROM SOLUTION - A process to extract metal ions and potentially other hazardous species present in solution to levels low enough to make it suitable for use and/or to quantify the levels of these contaminants in the solution. The process involves the use of functionalized magnetic particles to bind with metal ions. The process occurs in a three-chambered cell and utilizes a magnet to agglomerate the magnetic particles bound with metal ions to an electrode, and by altering the pH of the solution within the cell using gases produced by a solid state electrolyzer or from the air, encourages the plating of the metal ions on the electrode and the pushing out of the metal-free solution out of the cell. | 02-04-2016 |
