Electric Fuel Limited

Electric Fuel (e.f.l.) Ltd.

Brightsource Energy, Inc.

Etv Energy Ltd.

Arieh Meitav

Jonathan Goldstein

Arnold J Goldman

Charles Linder

Yoel Gilon

Israel Kroizer

Shalom Luski

Eugeny Pecherer

Yuri Kokotov

Ilia Yakupov

Michael Kravitz

Disclosed are membranes suitable for use as separators in electrochemical cells as well as electrochemical cells, where the membranes are configured to substantially reduce the passage of multivalent ions therethrough without substantially reducing the permeability of the membranes to lithium ions.

Membranes suitable for use as separators and electrochemical cells including such separators

The invention provides receivers which can be used to heat a working fluid to high temperature. In preferred embodiments, concentrated solar radiation is received and converted to heat at varying depths in the receiver such that multiple layers of surface are used to heat the working fluid. In addition, the depth-loading configuration helps to trap received heat to reduce radiant thermal loss.

High temperature solar receiver

A method for the inhibition of corrosion in particulate zinc, comprises the step of subjecting the zinc in the form of an alkaline slurry to the action of a corrosion inhibiting effective amount of a corrosion inhibitor which is at least one oxide selected from the oxides of antimony, bismuth, cadmium, gallium, indium, lead, mercury, thallium and tin, and which preferably constitutes 0.05-4.0 parts by weight, based on the weight of the zinc. The particulate zinc may be that recovered electrolytically from at least partially spent electrolyte from a zinc-air battery. Corrosion inhibited particulate zinc which has been treated according to the above method, as well as a mixture of (untreated) particulate zinc with such treated zinc, also form part of the invention.

Method for inhibiting corrosion in particulate zinc

A process for the regeneration of an at least partially spent Zn-alkali slurry for use in metal-air batteries, including subjecting the slurry to at least the steps of (i) separating the slurry into dissolved and undissolved phases; (ii) electrolyzing the separated dissolved phase so that Zn deposits on a cathode in removable form; (iii) removing Zn from the cathode and consolidating the Zn into particles; and (iv) combining the Zn from step (iii) with the separated undissolved phase from step (i) and an additional aqueous Group Ia metal hydroxide.

Regenerating slurries for use in zinc-air batteries

An electrical power storage unit has one or more metal-gas electrical cells, each cell including a pair of generally planar outer electrode units configured to define therebetween an interior space for containing an electrical power storage medium and an inner electrode unit mounted between the pair of outer electrode units so as to be in electrically conductive contact with the electrical power storage medium and define a plurality of volumes each having a pair of open ends, each open end facing an adjacent outer electrode unit. The power storage medium is a slurry containing active metal particles and an electrolyte solution. The inner electrode unit is configured for removable insertion within the interior space. The volumes defined by the inner electrode unit are configured so as to contain portions of the power storage slurry such that removal of the inner electrode unit from the interior space causes the simultaneous removal therefrom of the major part of the power storage slurry. Each outer electrode unit includes a generally planar gas electrode, a device for separating the metal particles from the gas electrode, and a device for preventing mechanical damage to the device for separating upon removal of the inner electrode unit from the interior space and upon insertion of the inner electrode unit into that space.

Electrical power storage apparatus

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Rishon Lezion, Israel

Arieh Meitav