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20090239288 | INTEGRATED MEMBRANE SEPARATION - BIOREACTOR FOR SELECTIVE REMOVAL OF ORGANIC PRODUCTS AND BY-PRODUCTS - A system for selective removal of metabolites from an aqueous broth including a bioreactor vessel containing at least one live culture producing at least one metabolite disposed within an aqueous broth, and a membrane module having a mixed matrix membrane suitable for selective removal of the at least one metabolite from the aqueous broth. The membrane is made of mixtures of hydrophobic zeolite and carbon on a porous substrate. In accordance with one particularly preferred embodiment of this invention, the membrane module is integral with the bioreactor vessel. | 09-24-2009 |
20090316336 | BIPOLAR MEMBRANE FOR ELECTROCHEMICAL SUPERCAPACITORS AND OTHER CAPACITORS - A supercapacitor having a bipolar membrane separator having a first side facing the negative electrode of the supercapacitor and having a plurality of cations and a second side facing the positive electrode and having a plurality of anions. | 12-24-2009 |
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20100258447 | BIOFUEL PRODUCTION BY HIGH TEMPERATURE NON-FARADAIC ELECTROCHEMICAL MODIFICATION OF CATALYSIS - A method for producing biofuels from biomass in which a refined biomass material is introduced into a non-Faradaic electrochemical device, preferably at a temperature greater than or equal to about 150° C., and deoxygenated and/or decarboxylated in said device to produce an increased carbon chain fuel. | 10-14-2010 |
20100330462 | CORROSION RESISTANT MOLDED GRAPHITE PLATES FOR HIGHLY CORROSIVE ELECTROCHEMICAL DEVICES - A graphite plate for electrochemical devices produced from a mixture of solid thermosetting ether-based epoxy resin particles and graphite particles compression molded at room temperature and heated to a temperature greater than about 200° C. | 12-30-2010 |
20110027431 | ON-SITE FRYING OIL REGENERATION METHOD AND APPARATUS - A method and system for regenerating used cooking oil in which the used cooking oil is introduced into a cooking oil regenerator, which includes an electrochemical device having a high temperature proton exchange membrane disposed between an anode electrode and a cathode electrode. A voltage is applied between the anode electrode and the cathode electrode using an external electricity source, producing regenerated cooking oil. | 02-03-2011 |
20110042229 | PHOTO-ELECTRO-REFINING OF BIO-OIL TO BIOFUEL AND HYDROGEN - An electrochemical device having a proton exchange membrane disposed between an anode electrode and a cathode electrode, an anode plate adjacent the anode electrode and forming at least one anode flow channel, and a cathode plate adjacent the cathode electrode and forming at least one cathode flow channel, in which a bio-oil is introduced into the at least one anode flow channel, and a carbohydrate is introduced into the at least one cathode flow channel. The bio-oil is oxidized at the anode, producing the biofuel, and protons from the anode electrode migrate to the cathode electrode and are reduced to hydrogen and/or reacted with the carbohydrate at the cathode, producing hydrogen and carbon-hydrogen biofuel | 02-24-2011 |
20110094380 | ULTRA-THIN CO2 SELECTIVE ZEOLITE MEMBRANE FOR CO2 SEPARATION FROM POST-COMBUSTION FLUE GAS - A method for producing a crystalline silicoaluminophosphate (SAPO) membrane in which a porous support is contacted with SAPO seed crystals to form a SAPO seeded porous support. The SAPO seeded porous support is filled with an aqueous SAPO synthesis gel including a mixture of sources of aluminum, phosphorus, silicon, oxygen, water, and a templating agent, forming a gel-filled porous structure which is then heated to form a SAPO layer of SAPO crystals on a surface of and/or within pores of the porous support. The SAPO layer is calcined, thereby removing the templating agent and forming a supported porous SAPO membrane layer, which is then subjected to a pore size reduction post-synthesis treatment process, producing a reduced pore size supported porous SAPO membrane layer having an average pore size of less than about 0.38 nm. | 04-28-2011 |
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20140065515 | TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT IONIC GATE - An electrochemical device having a liquid electrolyte which includes a protic solvent, an anode electrode disposed in contact with the liquid electrolyte, and a cathode electrode disposed in contact with the liquid electrolyte. A membrane which interrupts the transport of ions between the electrodes at a predetermined temperature is disposed in the liquid electrolyte between the anode electrode and the cathode electrode. In this way, electrochemical devices such as batteries, fuel cells, electrolyzers, and sensors, which may overheat during use and cause a fire or explosion, are precluded from overheating. | 03-06-2014 |
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20140124381 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING METHANOL FROM METHANE - A method for producing methanol from methane in which methane is provided to an anode electrode having a metal oxide catalyst disposed on an anode side of an electrolyte membrane, thereby producing methanol and electrons on the anode side. The electrons are conducted to a cathode electrode disposed on a cathode side of the electrolyte membrane, thereby transforming water provided to the cathode side to H | 05-08-2014 |