Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080202449 | Engine System - An engine system comprises a detection means for detecting a supply quantity or supply pressure of hydrogen rich gas which is disposed in a hydrogen rich gas supply pipe for supplying hydrogen rich gas to a combustion chamber of the engine, a hydrogen rich gas supply valve control means for controlling the supply of hydrogen rich gas by controlling the open/close timing and the amount of open/close lift of the hydrogen rich gas supply valve disposed in the combustion chamber of the engine based on the supply quantity or supply pressure detected by the detection means, an inlet valve for supplying air to the combustion chamber of the engine separately from the hydrogen rich gas supply valve, and an inlet valve control means for controlling the volume of air taken into the combustion chamber of the engine by the inlet valve. | 08-28-2008 |
20080206116 | FRICTION STIR WELDING METHOD FOR LAMINATED MEMBER AND HYDROGEN REACTOR - The present invention is relates to a method for alternately laminating each first metal sheet and each second metal sheet in three or more layers, wherein a melting point of the second metal sheet is higher than that of the first metal sheet, and welding them together by friction stir welding. | 08-28-2008 |
20080221261 | LOW DIELECTRIC LOSS TANGENT RESIN COMPOSITION, CURABLE FILM AND CURED PRODUCT, ELECTRICAL PART USING THE SAME AND METHOD FOR PRODUCTION THEREOF - According to the present invention, there is provided a low dielectric loss tangent resin composition containing a crosslinking component having a weight average molecular weight of not more than 1,000 and a plurality of styrene groups and represented by the formula [1], | 09-11-2008 |
20080236247 | Evaluation System for Amount of Emission Gases Through Fuel Supply Chain - The object of the present invention provides an evaluation system for evaluating accurately emission amount of environmental influence substance of fuel in a fuel supply facility for supplying stored fuel to a consumer. | 10-02-2008 |
20080241615 | HYDROGEN SUPPLY DEVICE, DISTRIBUTED POWER SUPPLY SYSTEM USING SAME, AND AUTOMOBILE USING SAME - There is provided a hydrogen storage and/or supply device utilizing an organic compound medium capable of being repeatedly hydrogenated and dehydrogenated. This device comprises: a catalyst member formed of a stack of a plurality of catalyst plates for storing and/or releasing hydrogen through a chemical reaction of the organic compound medium by means of a metal catalyst; a heat collector plate for supplying heat from a heat source to the catalyst member; and a heat transfer portion in contact with the plurality of catalyst plates and the heat collector plate. Each catalyst plate includes: the metal catalyst; a substrate; a catalyst support formed on at least one face of the substrate for supporting the metal catalyst; and a flow channel for passing the organic compound medium therethrough. Furthermore, the heat transfer portion has a thermal conductivity higher than that of the catalyst support. | 10-02-2008 |
20090000574 | Organic Hydride Reactor and Hydrogen Generator - An organic hydride reactor generates hydrogen by electrolyzing electrolyte to manufacture the organic hydride from the generated hydrogen. The system has a anode and cathode opposed to each other, the electrolyte supplied between the anode and cathode, a hydrogenation catalyst performing hydrogenation reaction between the hydrogen supplied from the anode by electrolysis and organic compound. The anode cathode has gas-fluid separation function and the electrolyte is supplied to only one surface of the anode and cathode, and a gas caused by electrolysis is discharged from a surface not being in contact with the electrolyte of the anode and cathode. | 01-01-2009 |
20090000575 | Engine System - An object of the present invention is, in an engine system including a medium which chemically repeats storage and release of hydrogen, to provide an engine system where CO | 01-01-2009 |
20090025824 | FUEL FILLING AND WASTE SOLUTION RECOVERY APPARATUS AND FUEL VESSEL - Recovery of dehydrogenation product must be done separately from supply of hydrogen fuel. However, there is a problem that it takes much time when dehydrogenation product recovery and fuel filling are done separately. A fuel filling/waste solution recovery apparatus includes measuring means to measure a volume of supplied fuel and a volume of recovered waste solution by measuring flow rates of solutions passing through a fuel filling nozzle and a recovery nozzle or piping, and a display which shows the volume of supplied fuel and the volume of recovered waste solution which are measured by the measuring means. | 01-29-2009 |
20090089075 | FUEL ENVIRONMENTAL EVALUATION SYSTEM - The invention provides a fuel environmental evaluation system for evaluating a fuel environment characteristic in an energy distribution process comprising a means for inputting an amount of raw material supplied to equipment for each process of energy distribution, an amount of product produced from each equipment for each process, and a type and an amount of utility supplied to the equipment for each process when producing the product; a storage means for storing input data; a storage means for storing a basic unit for an amount of environmentally affecting matter emission per unit amount of an environmental emission matter in the raw material, utility and product; an environmental emission calculation section for calculating an amount of environmentally affecting matter emission from data of amounts of the raw material, utility and product, and the basic unit for the amount of environmentally affecting matter emission; and a means for storing a calculation result from the environmental emission calculation section. | 04-02-2009 |
20090139470 | ENGINE SYSTEM - An engine system in which either hydrogen produced from a hydrogen containing medium in terms of reaction using a catalyst or a mixture of the hydrogen and the hydrogen containing medium is employed as a fuel, in order to restrict heat deformation of a reactor, the engine system including a reactor configured to cause a reaction using a catalyst, in which the reactor is constituted by alternately disposing plural exhaust passages and plural fuel passageways of the engine system with a wall interposed therebetween; at least one carrier configured to carry the catalyst and to be formed in a substantially rectangular plate shape is fitted in at least one of fuel passageways; and the carrier is provided with a plate portion which has a surface disposed in a fuel flowing direction and is formed in a substantially rectangular plate shape and at least one slit portion which divides the surface of the plate portion in the fuel flowing direction. | 06-04-2009 |
20090165890 | Supply and collection system for an organic hydride or liquid fuel containing an organic hydride - A fuel supply and collection system comprising: a delivery vehicle having a supply-fuel tank, a collection-fuel tank, a remaining supply-fuel quantity sensor for detecting a remaining fuel quantity of the supply-fuel tank, a remaining collection-fuel quantity sensor for detecting a remaining fuel quantity of the collection-fuel tank, and a display unit; a plurality of fuel stations having a supply-fuel tank, a collection-fuel tank, a remaining supply-fuel quantity sensor for detecting a remaining fuel quantity of the supply-fuel tank, and a remaining collection-fuel quantity sensor for detecting a remaining fuel quantity of the collection-fuel tank; and a central information processing center having an information processing apparatus;
| 07-02-2009 |
20090241861 | ENGINE SYSTEM - It is an object of the invention to provide an engine system using a small-sized heat exchanger having a high efficiency and a stable performance for heating and vaporizing a hydrogen medium supplied to a reactor vessel. The engine system includes an engine having an intake pipe for taking in air for combustion thereinto and an exhaust pipe for exhausting exhaust gas therefrom, a reactor vessel with a catalyst supported therein for decomposing a hydrogen medium which contains hydrogen in molecules thereof and of which the hydrogen can be taken out by a chemical reaction, a hydrogen medium tank storing the hydrogen medium, a high-pressure pump for pressurizing and transporting the hydrogen medium, a first heat exchanger for exchanging heat with the hydrogen medium in a liquid state, a second heat exchanger for exchanging heat with the hydrogen medium in a gas state, and a back pressure valve for depressurizing and vaporizing the hydrogen medium, disposed in a hydrogen medium flow path between the first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger, wherein the reactor vessel is disposed in the exhaust pipe so that the reactor vessel can exchange heat with the exhaust pipe, and wherein the high-pressure pump, the first heat exchanger, and the second heat exchanger are arranged in the hydrogen medium flow path for transporting the hydrogen medium from the hydrogen medium tank to the reactor vessel in this order from an upstream side in the hydrogen medium flow path. | 10-01-2009 |
20090246088 | DEHYDROGENATION FUEL THEFT PREVENTION SYSTEM - A dehydrogenation fuel theft prevention system for preventing the theft of dehydrogenation organic fuel containing hydrogen is provided. The dehydrogenation fuel theft prevention system is for systems including a reformer for dehydrogenating organic fuel containing at least hydrogen and a dehydrogenation fuel recovery tank for storing dehydrogenation fuel produced when organic fuel is dehydrogenated in the reformer. The theft prevention system is provided with a means for mixing an odorant as a component with a pungent odor other than the fuel components or a agent for coagulating the fuel components. The odorant or the coagulating agent is mixed when fuel is manufactured, distributed, utilized, recovered, or stored or fuel is about to be stolen. | 10-01-2009 |
20090250018 | Engine System - An engine system comprising an engine, hydrogen medium capable of repeating chemically storing and discharging hydrogen, an exhaust gas pipe from said engine; and a reactor unit bearing a catalyst;
| 10-08-2009 |
20100266926 | FUEL CELL ELECTROLYTE MEMBRANE, MEMBRANE ELECTRODE ASSEMBLY, AND FUEL CELL - A proton-conductive composite electrolyte membrane, for a fuel cell, comprises a metal-oxide hydrate with proton conductivity and organic macromolecules in which an intermediate layer is formed between the metal-oxide hydrate and the first organic macromolecular electrolyte. The intermediate layer can enhance the adhesion at an interface between the metal-oxide hydrate and the organic macromolecule, and thereby the amount of methanol that penetrates along the interface can be reduced. Accordingly, the composite electrolyte membrane has both high proton conductivity and low methanol permeability, and a membrane electrode assembly that comprises the composite electrolyte membrane can produce a high output. | 10-21-2010 |
20100266929 | CATALYST HAVING A DEHYDROGENATION FUNCTION OR HYDROGENATION FUNCTION, FUEL CELL USING THE CATALYST AND HYDROGEN STORAGE/SUPPLY DEVICE - An object of the invention is to provide a catalyst of high activity having a dehydrogenation function or hydrogenation function, to provide a fuel cell with a high output density, and further to provide a hydrogen storage/supply device, with which hydrogen is stored or supplied in a high efficient manner. | 10-21-2010 |
20110005473 | Hydrogen Supply Device and Hydrogen Supplying Method - A hydrogen supply device which generates hydrogen from hydrogen storing material which chemically stores hydrogen by a catalyst, wherein said device comprises valves on the fuel supply port and the exhaust port, and a valve controller which controls timing to opening and close the valves. Fuel supply pressure is 2 to 20 atm. Hydrogen generation pressure is 5 to 300 atm. Exhaust pressure is atmospheric pressure to 0.01 atm. | 01-13-2011 |
20110265736 | ENGINE SYSTEM WITH REFORMER - Disclosed is an engine system with a reformer, the engine system comprising a reformer and driving an engine using, as a fuel, a reformed fuel produced by reforming pre-reformed fuel with the reformer, in which the reformer is connected with both a pre-reformed fuel supply adjustment unit which adjusts the amount of the pre-reformed fuel supplied to the reformer and a reformed fuel supply adjustment unit which adjusts the amount of reformed fuel supplied to the engine, and the reformer is installed adjacent to the engine combustion chamber via the reformed fuel supply adjustment unit. | 11-03-2011 |
20120110984 | Engine System with Reformer - In an engine system with a reformer being installed in an exhaust pipe to reform a fuel, a control valve for controlling a flow rate of exhaust gas is provided downstream from an installed position of the reformer in the exhaust pipe. In the engine system with the reformer, since a part of the exhaust gas can be trapped in a space between the reformer and an engine chamber by closing the control valve during an exhaust stroke, the reforming efficiency of the reformer can be heightened. | 05-10-2012 |
20120145096 | ENGINE SYSTEM WITH REFORMER - An engine system with a reformer, wherein an unreformed fuel is reformed by the reformer mounted in an exhaust pipe, and wherein a reformed fuel containing hydrogen is supplied to an engine. The engine system with a reformer includes a controller which, when the hydrogen generated by the reformer is supplied to the engine, determines a target heat generation beginning timing in accordance with a load applied to an engine, an engine speed, and an air excess ratio of an air-fuel mixture, and which controls an ignition timing of the engine so that a difference between a current heat generation beginning timing and the target heat generation beginning timing of the engine is within a predetermined range. | 06-14-2012 |
20130087451 | Membrane Electrode Assembly and Organic Hydride Manufacturing Device - There is provided a membrane electrode assembly and an organic hydride manufacturing device capable of obtaining higher energy efficiency even if manufacturing organic hydride in one step with a single device. A membrane electrode assembly in which a cathode catalyst layer and an anode catalyst layer are placed to sandwich a solid polymer electrolyte membrane, wherein the cathode catalyst layer includes catalytic metal which causes hydrogenation of unsaturated hydrocarbons to organic hydrides, and a carrier of the catalytic metal, and the carrier provides on its surface a functional group which decreases wettability of the unsaturated hydrocarbons. | 04-11-2013 |
20140048022 | ENGINE SYSTEM WITH REFORMER - An engine system includes a reformer for driving an engine by supplying the engine with a reformed fuel which the reformer reforms from a pre-reformed fuel. The reformer includes a reforming catalyst for reforming the pre-reformed fuel by a water vapor reforming reaction. The engine system also includes a pre-reformed fuel supply adjustment unit for supplying the pre-reformed fuel to the reformer. The reformer includes an extremity portion provided in an engine cylinder. The pre-reformed fuel supply adjustment unit supplies the pre-reformed fuel to the reformer during a suction stroke of the engine, and the reformed fuel is directly supplied from the reformer into the engine cylinder. | 02-20-2014 |
20140079593 | RENEWABLE ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM - A renewable energy storage system that stores renewable energy, includes: an electrical power generator that converts renewable energy into electrical power; an electrical storage device that stores the electrical power; a hydrogen production device that produces hydrogen using the electrical power from the electrical power generator and/or the electrical power stored in the electrical storage device; a hydrogenation device that adds the hydrogen produced by the hydrogen production device to the unsaturated hydrocarbon; a saturated hydrocarbon storage device that stores the saturated hydrocarbon produced by the addition of the hydrogen to the unsaturated hydrocarbon; an unsaturated hydrocarbon storage device that stores the unsaturated hydrocarbon; and an unsaturated hydrocarbon supply controller that controls the supply of unsaturated hydrocarbon stored in the unsaturated hydrocarbon storage device to the hydrogenation device. | 03-20-2014 |
20140144774 | DEVICE FOR MANUFACTURING ORGANIC HYDRIDE - The device for electrochemically manufacturing an organic hydride of the present invention is characterized by the electrode structure thereof being a structure that forms a matrix in which a metal-catalyst supporting carbon or a metal catalyst is suitably intermingled with a proton-conductive solid polymer electrolyte as catalyst layers, and the catalyst layers are formed on the front and back of a proton-conductive solid polymer electrolyte membrane on which a layer that blocks water from passing through is formed. When water or water vapor is supplied to the anode side of this electrode and a substance to be hydrogenated is supplied to the cathode side, application of a voltage between the anode and the cathode causes an electrolysis reaction to the water to occur at the anode and a hydrogenation reaction to the substance to be hydrogenated to occur at the cathode, producing the organic hydride. | 05-29-2014 |