3949 results about "Ceramic membrane" patented technology

A metal-air battery is disclosed in one embodiment of the invention as including a cathode to reduce oxygen molecules and an alkali-metal-containing anode to oxidize the alkali metal (e.g., Li, Na, and K) contained therein to produce alkali-metal ions. An aqueous catholyte is placed in ionic communication with the cathode to store reaction products generated by reacting the alkali-metal ions with the oxygen containing anions. These reaction products are stored as solutes dissolved in the aqueous catholyte. An ion-selective membrane is interposed between the alkali-metal containing anode and the aqueous catholyte. The ion-selective membrane is designed to be conductive to the alkali-metal ions while being impermeable to the aqueous catholyte.

A power generation system and method providing an engine configured to produce hydrogen rich reformate to feed a solid oxide fuel cell includes an engine having an intake and an exhaust; an air supply in fluid communication with the engine intake; a fuel supply in fluid communication with the engine intake; at least one solid oxide fuel cell having an air intake in fluid communication with an air supply, a fuel intake in fluid communication with the engine exhaust, a solid oxide fuel cell effluent and an air effluent. Engines include a free piston gas generator with rich homogenous charge compression, a rich internal combustion engine cylinder system with an oxygen generator, and a rich inlet turbo-generator system with exhaust heat recovery. Oxygen enrichment devices to enhance production of hydrogen rich engine exhaust include pressure swing absorption with oxygen selective materials, and oxygen separators such as an solid oxide fuel cell oxygen separator and a ceramic membrane oxygen separator.

Embodiments of the present invention disclose ceramic membranes having bonded ceramic nanowires. Methods of making ceramic membranes having bonded ceramic nanowires are also disclosed.

Disclosed are processes of making solutions of alkali alkoxides in their corresponding alcohols using an electrolytic process. In one embodiment, sodium methoxide in methanol is made from methanol and aqueous sodium hydroxide solution, where the aqueous sodium hydroxide solution is present in the anolyte compartment and a solution of sodium methoxide in methanol is present in the catholyte compartment, the two compartments are separated by a ceramic membrane that selectively transports sodium ions under the influence of an electric potential, and wherein the composition of the solution of sodium methoxide in methanol in the catholyte compartment of the electrolytic cell comprises between at least about 2% by weight sodium methoxide and at most about 20% by weight sodium methoxide.

A process for combined ozone degradation and filtration using a multi-layered, nanocrystalline, sintered ceramic, metal oxide catalyst and ceramic membrane filter is described. The process reduces fouling of the membrane and degrades ozone remaining in the water from ozonation of water to kill microorganisms.

A dense ceramic electrolyte membrane supported by symmetrical porous ceramic electrolyte layers. The thin (t<100 microns) electrolyte layer is sandwiched between two fugitive-containing electrolyte support layers that become highly porous after firing. The heat treated fugitive-containing support layers form a skeletal structure of strongly adhered electrolyte with an interpenetrating network of pores that extends well always from the electrolyte surface. The porous layers can be infiltrated with a range of electrode materials or precursors to form a solid oxide fuel cell or other electrochemical cell as well as electrochemical cell stacks. The supported ceramic membrane provides electrochemical performance advantages and reduces warpage during sintering compared to conventional structures.

A flexible, ceramic membrane is useful as a separator for batteries, especially lithium batteries, the membrane containing a polymeric non-woven; a ceramic coating on and in the non-woven; wherein the ceramic coating comprises at least one oxide selected from the group consisting of Al₂O₃, TiO₂, ZrO₂, BaTiO₃, SiO₂, and mixtures thereof; wherein the coating comprises at least two fractions of oxides selected from the group consisting of Al₂O₃, TiO₂, ZrO₂, BaTiO₃, SiO₂, and mixtures thereof; a first ceramic fraction of the coating having been obtained from a sol; a second fraction of the coating comprising particles having an average particle size in the range from 200 nm to 5 μm; wherein the first fraction is present as a layer on the particles of the second fraction; the coating comprising from 0.1 to 50 parts by mass of the first fraction; the coating comprising from 5 to 99 parts by mass of the second fraction; and a network comprising silicon or zirconium; wherein the silicon in the network bonds via oxygen atoms to the oxides of the ceramic coating, via organic radicals to the surface of the polymeric non-woven and via at least one carbon chain to a further silicon; and wherein the coating is pinhole free.

Reactor membranes for used in oxidation reactions of hydrocarbons involving oxygen comprising a selective oxidation catalyst on a mixed conducting, oxide ion selective ceramic membrane of the composition (Sr1-xCax)1-yAyMn1-zBzO3-delta, whereA is Ba, Pb, Na, K, Y, an element of the lanthanide group or a combination thereof,B is Mg, Al, Ga, In, Sn, an element of the 3d or 4d period or a combination thereof,x is from 0.2 to 0.8,y is from 0 to 0.4,z is from 0 to 0.6, anddelta is a number, dependent on x, y and z, that renders the composition charge neutral.

This invention relates to novel process of preparing chemically bonded composite hydroxide ceramics by exposing a thermally treated hydroxide ceramic to phosphate reagent and subsequent heat treating the resulting system to initiate a rapid chemical bonding reaction. Such combined hydroxide/chemical bonding process can be used to fabricate ceramics or ceramic coatings for a variety of high and low temperature applications, including corrosion protection, wear resistance, dielectric properties, metal reinforced ceramics, ceramic membranes, non-sticky surfaces, bio-active ceramics, thermal barrier ceramics, non-wetted surfaces, and others.

The invention belongs to the field of electrochemistry and in particular relates to a ceramic membrane. Particularly, the invention also relates to a ceramic membrane with a core-shell structure and prepared by substituting an organic-inorganic composite for ceramic powder. The invention further relates to application of the ceramic membrane to a chemical power supply system such as a lithium ion battery and a battery comprising the ceramic membrane. The ceramic powder with the core-shell composite structure is favorable for improvement of the electrolyte adsorbing and maintaining ability of the ceramic membrane. The ceramic membrane can serve as a high-safety membrane material of secondary batteries such as a lithium ion battery, and has excellent electrochemical performance and heat stability. According to the invention, the operability is high; the cost is low compared with that of other methods; the reproducibility is high; and the obtained product quality is stable.

The invention relates to a process and a device for extracting battery grade lithium from brine. The process comprises the following steps: adding an adsorbent into the brine to adsorb lithium ions in the brine, intercepting the adsorbent by using a ceramic membrane filter, performing plate-frame pressure filtration on the ceramic membrane concentrated solution to obtain an adsorbent filter cake, washing and desorbing the adsorbent filter cake so as to obtain a desorption solution; removing magnesium in the desorption solution through a nanofiltration membrane system, entering the nanofiltration membrane permeate into an ion exchange resin tower for performing deep magnesium removal, concentrating through a reverse osmosis membrane, performing deep concentration in a DTRO membrane or electrodialysis equipment, evaporating the concentrated solution, adding BaCl2, Na2CO3 and NaOH into the solution, stirring, filtering in a ceramic membrane filter, performing plate-frame pressure filtration on the ceramic membrane filtrate, adding Na2CO3 into the clear liquid, preparing Li2CO3, washing Li2CO3 through a ceramic membrane, centrifuging, and drying, thereby obtaining the finished battery grade Li2CO3 product.

The invention discloses a ceramic membrane layer on a metal surface and a preparation method thereof. The preparation method comprises the following step of carrying out preset type laser cladding or synchronous laser cladding on the ceramic membrane layer and ceramic powder obtained in a micro-arc oxidation process, so as to prepare the ceramic membrane layer. The invention further discloses the ceramic membrane layer prepared by using the preparation method. By utilizing the method, the thickness of the micro-arc oxidation ceramic membrane layer is increased, so that the purposes of increasing the abrasion resistance and corrosion resistance are reached, and the problem that a micro-arc oxidation ceramic membrane layer at present is too thin to meet application to a brake disc and the like with high requirements on the abrasion resistance is solved.

The invention discloses a membrane separator for methyl alcohol water hydrogen production equipment and a fabrication method of the membrane separator. The method comprises the following steps that Step S1, a metal palladium membrane tube and a ceramic membrane tube are fabricated respectively; Step S2, set packing is filled in joint parts at one end of the metal palladium membrane tube and one end of the ceramic membrane tube; an expansion coefficient of the packing falls in between those of a metal palladium membrane tube material and a ceramic membrane tube material; and Step S3, the packing is sintered on site at 50-1000 DEG C, and solidified; and the joint parts of the metal palladium membrane tube and the ceramic membrane tube are sealed. With the adoption of the fabrication method of the membrane separator for the methyl alcohol water hydrogen production equipment, the membrane separator with good sealability can be fabricated, so that the preparation efficiency of hydrogen is ensured.

The invention relates to a method for producing ceramic hollow fibers from nanoscale particles and to hollow fibers produced in such a manner. The inventive method is characterized in that the ceramic material has a solids content of >25% by volume, preferably >30% by volume and is processed by means of extrusion and spinning. The hollow fiber is sintered according to conventional sintering methods. A hollow fiber produced in this manner is used for metal, polymer and ceramic matrix reinforcements, for artificial organs, for microsystems technology components, for fiber optical waveguides, for ceramic membranes, for solid electrolyte in fuel cells (SOFC), for tissue engineering and for producing extremely light ceramic parts, such as heat shields or brake systems, that are subjected to temperature stresses. The inventive ceramic batch can also be processed by means of silk screening whereby resulting in the production of filigree structures over the ceramic silk screening.

The invention discloses a preparation method of lithium metal through electrolysis, which comprises the following steps: at normal temperature and normal pressure, applying direct current voltage on an anode current collector and a cathode current collector so that potassium ions in a water phase in an anode chamber penetrate through a diaphragm having lithium ion conductor characteristics under the driving of the voltage, an organic solvent in a cathode chamber is reduced to a metal lithium single substance which is deposited and enriched on the surface of the cathode current collector to obtain the product, wherein the anode chamber of an electrolysis cell is filled with an aqueous solution at least containing the lithium ions, the cathode chamber od the electrolysis cell is filled with the organic solvent having the lithium ion conductor characteristics, the diaphragm for separating the anode chamber from the cathode chamber is a lithium ion conductor ceramic membrane having the lithium ion conductor characteristics or a composite membrane of a lithium ion conductor and a polymer, and the cathode chamber is in inert gas atmosphere. The electrolysis preparation method for lithium metal avoids severe conditions which are required to prepare lithium metal by a traditional high temperature molten electrolysis process, and has the characteristics of low energy consumption, high lithium extraction efficiency and high product purity and is environment-friendly and wide in raw material sources.

The invention relates to an electrode material of a lithium ion battery, in particular to a method for pre-lithiating a cathode material. The method comprises the steps that an electrolytic cell cathode cavity is made of the electrode material such as a lithium ion cathode material and arranged in a lithium ion conductive organic electrolyte; an anode cavity is an aqueous solution containing lithium salt or an organic solution; the anode cavity is separated from the cathode cavity by a lithium ion conductor ceramic membrane or a composite membrane of lithium ion conductor ceramic and a high molecular material; an electric potential and current density are controlled by external circuit charge and discharge equipment to allow lithium ions to migrate to a cathode from an anode through the membrane; and an SEI (Solid Electrolyte Interphase) membrane is formed on the surface of the material; or the electrode material is pre-lithiated. According to the method, a cheap and safe lithium ion saline solution serves as a source of the lithium ion; the SEI membrane is generated for the cathode of the lithium ion battery in advance; or lithium is supplemented to the electrode material; the coulombic efficiency and cycling stability of the cathode material can be improved; a formation process in production of the lithium ion battery in the prior art is simplified; the electrode material and cost are saved; and the method is safe and efficient and has a large-scale application prospect.

An electrode and method of forming the same of the present invention is used for the high-rate deposition of materials, such as carbon, silicon, metals, metal oxides, and the like, onto a metal substrate defined by a metal tape used as cathode or anode combined with a separator to form a fuel cell of a secondary battery, metal-ceramic membranes, film composite metal-ceramaic materials for electronic devices. The method is cost effective and is directed to form the electrode with improved and high porosity.

A method and an apparatus of the present invention is used for the high-rate deposition of materials, such as carbon, silicon, metals, metal oxides, and the like, onto a metal substrate defined by a metal tape. The particles of the material are mixed with fluid and are injected against the metal tape at a high pressure and high velocity. The particles of the material form a current collection surface of the metal tape. The metal tape is used as cathode or anode combined with a separator to form a fuel cell of a secondary battery, metal-ceramic membranes, film composite metal-ceramic materials for electronic devices.

The invention relates to a porous ceramic membrane support with a flat structure and a preparation method thereof, and belongs to the technical field of ceramic membrane supports. The ceramic membrane support is flat and consists of two flat membrane supports; a certain space is reserved between the two flat membrane supports; at least one supporting column is distributed in the space; and at least one water outlet passage is formed in each flat membrane support, so that flowing resistance of filtrate in the support with the flat structure is reduced. The ceramic aggregate of the support is one or more of alumina, zirconia, silicon dioxide, silicon carbide, titanium oxide, mullite and cordierite; the pore-forming agent is starch, graphite, phenolic resin spheres and the like; and the adhesive is methylcellulose, polyvinyl alcohol and the like. The porosity of the prepared porous ceramic membrane support with the flat structure can reach 30 to 50 percent, the aperture is 20 to 200 nanometers, and the compressive strength can reach 20 to 40MPa; and the support can be used for substituting an organic hollow fiber membrane bioreactor, and has great potential application in the fields of sewage treatment, fine chemical industry and the like.

Self-supporting thin film membranes of ceramic materials and related electrochemical cells and cell stacks. The membrane structure is divided into a plurality of self-supporting thin membrane regions by a network of thicker integrated support ribs. The membrane structure may be prepared by laminating a thin electrolyte layer with a thicker ceramic layer that forms a network of support ribs.