Abstract:
An apparatus for treating a liquid is disclosed herein. The apparatus comprises a chamber defining an inlet and an outlet, a rotor located in the chamber; and at least one surface located in the chamber. The at least one surface is spaced apart and substantially parallel to the rotor. The rotor and the at least one surface define a reaction zone therebetween. The reaction zone is in fluid communication with the inlet and the outlet. The rotation of the rotor relative to the at least one surface is adapted to cause turbulence in the liquid passing through the reaction zone. At least one of the rotor and the at least one surface define a plurality of dimples thereon.
Abstract:
The invention provides a method for limiting the temperature of the catalyst in exothermic mass-transfer-limited reactions by placing a flow-through catalyst in thermal contact with a downstream non-catalytic flow-through structure placed in the flow stream whereby a portion of the heat-of-reaction is transferred to the downstream non-catalytic structure.
Abstract:
A catalyst element includes a porous housing; a filter core disposed within the housing; and a filler material comprising a catalyst particle, a redox particle, an oxidizing particle, or a combination comprising at least one of the foregoing particles, wherein the filler material is disposed within the housing; wherein the catalyst element comprises a plurality of tortuous flow paths, through which a reactive mixture may flow and contact at least a portion of each of the housing, filter core, and filler material. The catalyst element may be useful in a variety of chemical processes including hydrogenation, dehydrogenation, hydrogenolysis, oxidation, reduction, alkylation, dealkylation, carbonylation, decarbonylation, coupling, isomerization, amination, deamination, or hydrodehalogenation.
Abstract:
An apparatus for generating hydrogen gas in which hydrogen gas of a high purity is supplied to a hydrogen-utilizing device by using a decahydronaphthalene/naphthalene reaction. The apparatus includes a storage tank in which decahydronaphthalene is stored as a crude fuel, a reaction tank which has a catalyst and a heater for heating the catalyst and which causes dehydrogenation of decahydronaphthalene supplied from the storage tank to the heated catalyst, and a separation tank in which hydrogen-rich gas is separated out from naphthalene and hydrogen gas supplied from the reaction tank by using a hydrogen separation film and from which the separated hydrogen gas is discharged.
Abstract:
The invention provides processes and apparatus for producing hydrogen from water, including the steps of heating water to a water dissociating temperature to form a dissociated water reaction mixture comprising hydrogen gas and oxygen gas. A vortex is formed of the reaction mixture to subject the reaction mixture to a centrifugal force about a longitudinal axis of an interior space of a vortex tube reactor, so that there is radial stratification of the hydrogen gas and the oxygen gas in the interior space of the vortex tube reactor. Hydrogen or oxygen is preferentially extracted from the reaction mixture at spaced apart points along the length of the interior space of the vortex tube reactor.
Abstract:
A ceramic packing element (500) is formed from a stack of ceramic plates (502) having parallel ribs (504) forming parallel grooves therebetween. The grooves are formed into channels by being contacted with the surface of an opposed plate. The ribs (504) may engage the end surfaces of ribs on an adjacent plate or may be interleaved with the ribs (504) of an opposed plate to form smaller channels. The plates (502) are adhered to each other by firing a stack of plates (502) in the green state or by adhering cured plates (502) by means of an inorganic adhesive such as sodium silicate. Pressure drop and cracking may be reduced, mass transfer and heat efficiencies increased by enlarging the inlets (542) to the channels and by providing perforations through the plates between the ribs (504). Elements may be preassembled into larger units before placement in a column by wrapping metal bands around an assembly of elements.
Abstract:
At least one fluid medium is passed in uniflow relation through one or more filler elements comprising layers which contact one another and bound flow channels, the longitudinal axes of the flow channels in each layer extending substantially parallel to one another at least in groups, the longitudinal axes of the flow channels in adjacent layers being inclined relatively to one another, the flow channels of at least any two adjacent layers being at least partly open towards one another.
Abstract:
A device for producing a physical or chemical change of state in a fluid flowing through a conduit which contains a plurality of curved sheet-like elements extending longitudinally through the conduit and in which consecutive elements are curved in opposite directions. The internal surfaces of the conduit and the surfaces of the sheet-like elements are coated with a material which interacts with a component of the fluid to produce such change. The surfaces may be formed of water or other solvents, catalysts, enzymes or other biologically active materials, and the fluid may contain components soluble in such solvents, or the fluid may contain materials upon which such catalysts, enzymes or biologically active materials act to produce the desired change of state.
Abstract:
In an apparatus producing hydrogen gas by the decomposition reaction of water using photocatalyst, its miniaturization is achieved while suppressing the decrease of production efficiency of hydrogen gas as low as possible or improving the efficiency. The apparatus 1 comprises a container portion 2 receiving water W; a photocatalyst member 3 immersed in the water, having photocatalyst which generates excited electrons and positive holes when irradiated with light, causes a decomposition reaction of the water and generates hydrogen gas; a light source 4 emitting the light irradiated to the photocatalyst member; and a heat exchange device 7 conducting waste heat of the light source to the water in the container portion; wherein the water to be decomposed on the photocatalyst member in the container portion is warmed by the waste heat of the light source by the heat exchange device.
Abstract:
Methods for the photoreduction of molecules are provided, the methods comprising illuminating an amino-terminated diamond surface comprising amino groups covalently bound to the surface of diamond with light comprising a wavelength sufficient to excite an electronic transition defined by the energy band structure of the amino-terminated diamond, thereby inducing the emission of electrons from the amino-terminated diamond surface into a sample comprising molecules to be reduced, wherein the emitted electrons induce the reduction of the molecules to form a reduction product; and collecting the reduction product.