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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 15, 1994
Filed:
Apr. 28, 1993
Applicant:
Inventors:
Turgut M Gur, Santa Clara County, CA (US);
Henry Wise, San Mateo County, CA (US);
Robert A Huggins, Ulm, DE;
Assignee:
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Stanford, CA (US);
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
C25B / ; C25B / ; C25B / ; C25B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
204 / ; 204252 ; 204265 ; 204291 ; 429 17 ; 429 40 ; 429218 ; 429224 ;
Abstract
Disclosed is an electrochemical reactor for partially oxidizing methane and cogenerating electrical energy. A solid-state ionic reactor is described in which a solid electrolyte is provided with a cathode and a perovskite type anode having a wide range of oxygen nonstoichiometry. The cell generates electrical energy as a result of the chemical potential difference brought about by the catalytic oxidation of methane at the anode with oxygen that chemically diffuses from the cathode through the solid-state ionic conductor.