Resumen de: WO2025105224A1
The present invention provides: a carbon catalyst which has both high catalytic activity and high durability; an electrode; and a battery. The carbon catalyst has an L/La ratio of 18 or more, the L/La ratio being the ratio of the average carbon mesh surface size L, which is obtained by programmed-temperature desorption analysis in which the temperature can be increased to 1600°C, to the crystallite size La, which is obtained from a diffraction peak near a diffraction angle (2θ) of 43° in an X-ray diffraction pattern obtained by means of powder X-ray diffraction using a CuKα ray, and a ratio of the halogen atom concentration (atom%) to the carbon atom concentration (atom%) of 0.0005 or more as obtained by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy.
Resumen de: WO2025105727A1
Provided is a method of producing a catalyst for a membrane-electrode assembly, the method including: preparing a precursor solution including a catalyst metal; preparing a seed solution by maintaining the precursor solution at a temperature within a first temperature range, lower than room temperature; maintaining the seed solution at a temperature within a second temperature range, higher than the first temperature range; and heating the seed solution to a temperature within a third temperature range, higher than the second temperature range.
Resumen de: US2025167268A1
An anodic purging method for a fuel cell, in particular a hydrogen fuel cell of a vehicle, is disclosed. Anodic purging is performed with a preset anodic purging duration during first start of the fuel cell, and the anodic purging method includes (i) detecting a power-on state of the vehicle, (ii) detecting a shutdown duration of the fuel cell after the start in the power-on state of the vehicle, and (iii) adapting an anodic purging duration of the fuel cell during restart in case of taking the shutdown duration into account. Also disclosed is a respective anodic purging system, a fuel cell, and a computer program product. The method and system is capable of adapting to the anodic purging duration of the fuel cell during restart based on the downtime duration after temporary shutdown of the fuel cell, thereby being capable of saving purging hydrogen, and being capable of responding quickly to driver's requirements for start of the vehicle and improving user experience.
Resumen de: AU2023395833A1
Anion exchange polymers comprise a plurality of repeating units of formula (I). The polymer may be synthesized from a super acid catalyzed polyhydroxyalkylation reaction of monomers Ar
Resumen de: AU2023390125A1
Catalyst ink formulas for the preparation of CCMs are described. The catalyst ink formulas comprise a catalyst, an ionomer, a solvent, and a porogen soluble in the solvent. The catalyst ink formula may also comprise an additive, such as an electron conductive polymer. The anode catalyst coating layer or both the anode and the cathode catalyst coating layers prepared from the catalyst ink formula comprises uniformly distributed nanopores that allow easy gas removal and uniform water feed distribution, which will avoid or reduce the direct energy losses for the electrolyzers. Catalyst coated membranes and methods of making a catalyst coated membranes are also described.
Resumen de: AU2023382774A1
This system supplies, to a work vehicle equipped with a fuel cell, fuel for the fuel cell. Said system comprises the work vehicle, a cart on which the fuel is loaded, and supply piping that is provided so as to be detachable between the work vehicle and the cart and that is capable of supplying the fuel loaded on the cart to the work vehicle. The work vehicle receives supply of the fuel loaded on the cart in a travelling state while towing the cart by means of the supply piping.
Resumen de: AU2023382772A1
This work vehicle is equipped with a drive source using hydrogen as a fuel, and includes a hydrogen tank that stores the hydrogen, and a hydrogen discharge pipe having a discharge portion that discharges vaporized gas from the hydrogen tank. The discharge portion discharges the vaporized gas above the work vehicle.
Resumen de: AU2023382767A1
A dump truck equipped with a vehicle chassis frame having a drive source which uses hydrogen as fuel installed therein, and a dump body which accommodates the placement of a load therein and is coupled to the vehicle chassis frame so as to be capable of rotating via a rotating part, said dump truck being further equipped with a hydrogen tank which stores hydrogen and is provided to the dump body.
Resumen de: WO2025104825A1
This electrolysis cell (10) is provided with: a support substrate (12) that has a first through hole (40a); and a hydrogen electrode collector layer (13) that has a first embedded part (70a) which is embedded in the first through hole (40a). A first layered part (80) includes a first gap (81) that is in contact with a first surface (T1) of the support substrate (12), the first surface being on the hydrogen electrode active layer (14) side. The first embedded part (70a) includes a first gap (71a) that is in contact with the inner peripheral surface (T1) of the first through hole (40a). The first gap (71a) extends along the thickness direction of the support substrate (12).
Resumen de: WO2025105650A1
The present invention relates to a thermal management system of a device for supplying hydrogen to a fuel cell, and disclosed are a thermal management system and method for the cold start of a cryogenic fuel supply device for a fuel cell, in which liquid hydrogen is vaporized into gaseous hydrogen by using waste heat of a fuel cell coolant, and the gaseous hydrogen is supplied to a fuel cell, and at the same time, residual heat of the coolant may be removed (cooled) by using cold energy emitted when the liquid hydrogen is vaporized, and thus generated heat of the fuel cell may be efficiently managed.
Resumen de: WO2025105272A1
This fuel cell unit 100 comprises: a housing 10; and a fuel cell module disposed inside the housing 10. The housing 10 has: a body part 12; a door 14 openably/closably attached to the body part 12; and a plurality of louvers 16 disposed forward of the door 14. The door 14 includes: an intake port 20 for guiding air into the housing 10; and an exhaust port 22 for guiding exhaust gas, which has been discharged from a fuel cell module 40, to the outside of the housing 10. The intake port 20 and the exhaust port 22 are covered by the plurality of louvers 16.
Resumen de: WO2025104822A1
This electrolysis cell (2) is provided with a cell body part (10) and an annular support frame (11). The cell body part (10) has a hydrogen electrode collector layer (12), a hydrogen electrode active layer (13) that is disposed on the hydrogen electrode collector layer (12), an electrolyte layer (14), and an oxygen electrode layer (16). The support frame (11) is connected to a metal separator (20). The support frame (11) surrounds the hydrogen electrode collector layer (12) of the cell body part (10). The support frame (11) contains zirconia and nickel oxide. The porosity of the support frame (11) after a reduction treatment at 750°C for 12 hours is 15% or less.
Resumen de: WO2025105365A1
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a microbial fuel cell which is simple and which uses a power generation method that does not use mud and that considers the global environment. This microbial fuel cell includes power generating microorganisms, a culture medium, and at least a pair of electrodes. A proportion of the power generating microorganism to contained microorganisms is 5% or more.
Resumen de: AU2023381536A1
The preset disclosure relates to an electrochemical cell stack, comprising a solid electrochemical cell (20), an electrically conductive separator plate (30); and a seal element (40). The separator plate comprises: a central portion (31) with a comparatively recessed support face (32) supporting the solid oxide cell, and an contact face (34), opposite the recessed support face, contacting an adjacent solid electrochemical cell; and a border portion (36) providing a comparatively raised top (37) and an upstanding sidewall (38). The seal element (40) extends between the raised top face of the border portion and an opposing support face (39) of adjacent separator plate. A separation distance between the recessed support face and the contact face of an adjacent separator plate as defined by a combined height of the seal element and the upstanding sidewall matches a thickness of the solid electrochemical cell.
Resumen de: AU2023376187A1
The present invention provides a redox flow battery system including: a main cell that performs charge and discharge through supply of a positive electrolyte and a negative electrolyte; a plurality of monitor cells selected from the group consisting of a bipolar monitor cell, a positive monitor cell, and a negative monitor cell; and a controller that controls charge and discharge of the main cell. The controller issues an operation command to an alarm device when a specific condition is satisfied.
Resumen de: US2025160677A1
The present invention provides an improved breath analyzers and breath test methods to determine the presence of diseases such as gastrointestinal, liver, kidney, and metabolic diseases.
Resumen de: US2025163089A1
Compounds with redox molecular cores and branched molecular tails comprising ionic functionalities for uses as electrolytes in redox flow batteries are described, as well as methods of synthesis and use thereof. The compounds have redox active perylene diimide or ferrocene molecular core decorated with the branched molecular tails having multiple ionic functionalities to improve water solubility of the molecular core, and, as such, its performance as the electrolyte.
Resumen de: US2025162733A1
This patent discloses a powerplant for an aerial vehicle comprised of Perovskite-Silicon tandem photovoltaic solar cells covering the wings and fuselage, a lithium-sulfur battery, a high-pressure unitized regenerative proton exchange membrane (“PEM”) device, and hydrogen tanks. The PEM device has a fuel-cell mode and an electrolysis mode. During level flight, the PEM device operates in fuel-cell mode, converting hydrogen into electricity. The electricity is used to run a plurality of pairs of permanent magnet synchronous motors, coupled to propellers, and mounted in a coaxial rotor configuration. During level flight, the array of solar cells re-charges the Li—S battery pack. During takeoff and landing, the Li—S battery pack supplements the electricity generated by the PEM device in fuel-cell mode. On the ground, the solar cells provides electricity to the PEM device, which operates in electrolysis mode, converting water into hydrogen gas, which is then stored in the hydrogen tanks.
Resumen de: WO2025104823A1
An electrolytic cell device (1) is provided with a current collector member (25) and an electrolytic cell (10) that is electrically connected to the current collector member (25). The electrolytic cell (10) is provided with a hydrogen electrode current collector layer (13), a support substrate (12) that is embedded within the hydrogen electrode current collector layer (13) and has through-holes (40), and a hydrogen electrode active layer (14) disposed on the hydrogen electrode current collector layer (13). The current collector member (25) includes overlapping parts (25a) that overlap the through-holes (40) in a thickness direction, and non-overlapping parts (25b) that do not overlap the through-holes (40) in the thickness direction. The density of the overlapping parts (25a) is greater than the density of the non-overlapping parts (25b).
Resumen de: WO2025104826A1
In the present invention, an electrolysis cell (10) is provided with: a support substrate (12) having a through-hole (40); a hydrogen-pole current collector layer (13) having an embedded section (70) which is embedded in the through-hole (40), and a first layer section (80) continuous with the embedded section (70) and disposed above the support substrate (12); and a hydrogen-pole active layer (14) disposed above the hydrogen-pole current-collector layer (13). The first layer section (80) includes a void (81) that adjoins a first surface (T1) on the hydrogen-pole active layer (14) side of the support substrate (12).
Resumen de: WO2025104824A1
An electrolysis cell (10) is provided with: a support substrate (12) having a through hole (40); a hydrogen electrode current collector layer (13) having an embedded part (70) embedded in the through hole (40); a hydrogen electrode active layer (14) disposed on the hydrogen electrode current collector layer (13); an oxygen electrode layer (17); and an electrolyte layer (15) disposed between the hydrogen electrode active layer (14) and the oxygen electrode layer (17). The embedded part (70) includes a cavity (71a) that is in contact with a first end region (43) of an inner peripheral surface (41) of the through hole (40).
Resumen de: WO2025103503A1
The subject invention pertains to sulfone-based hydrocarbon membranes with decentralized ion transport channels and carbon coating to obtain many small ion-transport channels to mitigate polysulfide crossover without sacrificing ionic conductivity. The developed sulfone-based membrane showed a higher ion selectivity and higher ion conductivity at a fraction of cost ($12 m-2) compared to the commercial fluorinated Nafion. The low-cost membranes enabled full polysulfide-ferrocyanide redox flow batteries with a high coulombic efficiency (>99.9%), energy efficiency (>75%) and a low capacity decay rate (0.0027%per day) for 1600 cycles (> 6 months) at 20 mA cm-2. Embodiments have been shown to address the crossover bottleneck of polysulfide-based RFBs, remove the dependency on expensive fluorinated Nafion membrane, and provide opportunities for beneficial commercialization.
Resumen de: WO2025102722A1
A uniformly-fastened stacked fuel cell stack and a customization device therefor. The uniformly-fastened stacked fuel cell stack comprises two protective plates (1) and two electrode plates (2) located between the two protective plates (1), and further comprises: a stacked fuel cell stack structure (3), the stacked fuel cell stack structure (3) being arranged between the two electrode plates (2), and the stacked fuel cell stack structure (3) at least comprising five flow field plates, with an insulating gasket (4) being provided between every two adjacent flow field plates; and an integral locking structure, which is used for making the protective plates (1), the electrode plates (2) and the stacked fuel cell stack structure (3) tightly attached to one another.
Resumen de: US2025163232A1
The present invention relates: to a substance, in particular functionalised oligomer or polymer, wherein the substance contains oligomeric or polymeric chains to which perfluoroaromatic compounds are coupled or which contain perfluoroaromatic compounds; and to a membrane, in particular a blended membrane; and to a method for producing a substance, comprising the following steps: providing a starting substance, which contains oligomeric or polymeric chains to which perfluoroaromatic compounds having a plurality of fluorine atoms are coupled or which contain perfluoroaromatic compounds having a plurality of fluorine atoms; nucelophilic substitution of at least two, in particular of precisely two, three, four or five fluorine atoms of the perfluoroaromatic compound by one functional group in each case.
Nº publicación: US2025163221A1 22/05/2025
Solicitante:
BASF SE [DE]
BASF SE
Resumen de: US2025163221A1
The present invention relates a sulfonated polyarylenesulfone polymer (sP) having an at least bimodal molecular weight distribution, a process for the preparation of the sulfonated polyarylenesulfone polymer (sP), a membrane (M) comprising the sulfonated polyarylenesulfone polymer (sP), a process for the preparation of the membrane (M), and the membrane (M) obtained by said process.