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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 04, 1986
Filed:
Jan. 31, 1985
Peter G Ang, Naperville, IL (US);
Texaco Inc., White Plains, NY (US);
Abstract
A process and apparatus for reducing carbon dioxide to formic acid includes two redox couple electrolyte solutions separated by a first membrane having photosensitizers. The carbon dioxide to be reduced is provided to a second membrane which is contiguous to one of the redox couple electrolyte solutions. The second membrane has photosensitizers, a catalyst and high hydrogen overpotential material. Water provides hydrogen ions, which participate in the reduction of the carbon dioxide, via a separator. In operation both membranes are illuminated and produce excited photosensitizers which cause electron transfer from a first redox solution to a second redox solution and then to the carbon dioxide in the second membrane thereby, in cooperation with the hydrogen ions, reducing at least some of the carbon dioxide at a surface of the second membrane to provide formic acid.