Agency of Industrial Science and Technology

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology

Nissan Chemical Industries Limited

Other

Tosoh Corporation

Ministry of International Trade & Industry

Japan As Represented by Director General of Agency of Industrial Science

Masanobu Awano

Yoshinobu Fujishiro

Toshio Suzuki

Mutsuo Sando

Toshiaki Yamaguchi

Yuzi Hoshi

Hiroyoshi Takagi

Yasumasa Takao

Yoshitaka Kubota

Kunihiro Maeda

Masamichi Obitsu

Michihide Machida

Hae Jin Hwang

Takao Kanai

Kazuyuki Matsuda

Motoyuki Miyata

Sergei Bredikhin

The invention provides a porous support for integrating electrochemical reaction cells with high-density, having a plurality of through-holes, an electrochemical reaction cell stack and an electrochemical reaction system comprising the porous support for integrating electrochemical reaction cells with high-density, and the invention relates to a support for integrating electrochemical reaction cells with high-density, in which a plurality of through-holes provided in a porous support act as structural supports for electrochemical reaction cells, to an electrochemical reaction cell stack in which electrochemical reaction unit cells are integrated at a high density using the porous support, to an electrochemical reaction system comprising the electrochemical reaction cell stack, and to a manufacturing method thereof, and the present invention enables to provide a porous support for integrating electrochemical reaction cells with high-density, an electrochemical reaction cell stack and an electrochemical reaction system that can simultaneously realize a size reduction and higher-density integration of the electrochemical reaction cell stack as a unit cell integration product.

Porous support for electrochemical reaction cell high-density integration, and electrochemical reaction cell stack and electrochemical reaction system comprising the porous support for electrochemical reaction cell high-density integration

Tube electrochemical reactor bundle or stack, having a structure, in which a plurality of tube fuel cells, formed of a dense ion conductor (electrolyte) and cathode (air electrode) laminated to an anode (fuel electrode) material having a tube structure, are electrically connected by a thin metallic wire, and an electrochemical reactor system using them are provided.

Electrochemical reactor bundles, stacks, and electrochemical reactor systems consisting of these components

The present invention is an electrochemical reactor unit in which a plurality of electrochemical reactor cells constituted by a tube are housed in a porous material body having a heat releasing function and a current collecting function, these are electrically connected in series, and a fuel manifold is mounted to the connected electrochemical reactor cells; an electrochemical reactor module that comprises a plurality of the units which are arranged in fuel supply holes, and a structure supplying air directly to the entire electrochemical reactor module; and an electrochemical reaction system in which such an electrochemical reactor module is utilized.

Electrochemical reactor units and modules and systems composed of them

The invention relates to a chemical reactor having an electrochemical cell containing a three-layer structure for the decomposition and removal of a substance treated by a chemical reaction.

Chemical reactor

The present invention provides a gas sensor element having properties capable of detecting methane and carbon monoxide selectively with 1 sensor by improving gas selectivity of the semiconductor gas sensor. The present invention relates to a gas sensor element, which has a carbon monoxide sensor layer with an ability to function as a catalyst film that blocks carbon monoxide, which impedes detection of methane at the underlying methane sensor, and has a layer-built structure where the surface of a methane sensor is covered with the carbon monoxide gas sensor which can be obtained by a gas-phase method.

Multilayered gas sensor

The present invention provides a gas sensor element having physical, electrical and chemical properties capable of detecting methane and carbon monoxide selectively with 1 intergrated filtering, catalyzing sensor by improving gas selectivity of the semiconductor gas sensor. The present invention relates to a gas sensor element, which has a carbon monoxide sensor layer with an ability to function as a catalyst film that blocks carbon monoxide, which impedes detection of methane, and has a layer-built structure where the surface of a methane sensor is covered with the carbon monoxide gas sensor which can be obtained by a gas-phase method.

A powder for sintering is prepared by the wet mixing of a finely and uniformly divided alumina powder of high purity having a primary particle diameter not exceeding 0.15 micron and an average particle diameter not exceeding 0.3 micron, and a partially stabilized zirconia powder of high purity having an average particle diameter not exceeding 0.3 micron. After granulation and molding, the mixed powder is sintered at a temperature of 1300.degree. C. to 1500.degree. C. to make a sintered body having an average grain size not exceeding 0.7 micron.

Sintered body of alumina and partially stabilized zirconia, a process

A light transmitting sintered body of cordierite has a composition equal or close to the stoichiometric composition of cordierite which is represented as 2MgO.2Al.sub.2 O.sub.3.5SiO.sub.2, consists mainly of a phase of cordierite crystals, and has a total transmittance of at least 20%. A method of preparing it is also disclosed.

Sintered body of light transmitting cordierite and a method of preparing

A method for coating the surface of inactive granules comprises dispersing inactive granules having water adsorbed in advance on the surface thereof in a solution having a higher fatty acid and a metal alkoxide dissolved in small amounts in a non-hydrophilic organic solvent thereby forming on the surface of the granules a dense layer of microfine metal oxide powder produced in consequence of hydrolysis of the metal alkoxide.

Method for coating surface of inactive granules

An oxide sintered product represented by the formula

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