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Thermo-Electrochemical Cycle and Reactor for Hydrogen and Carbon Monoxide Production
Background The creation of effective energy conversion technologies has become essential in response to the challenges of integrating diurnally and seasonally intermittent and variable renewable energy resources. Specifically, one of the most important steps toward the economical production of sustainable fuels and organic chemicals is the conversion...
Published: 4/17/2024   |   Inventor(s): Ivan Ermanoski, Ryan Milcarek, Ellen Stechel, James Miller
Keywords(s): CO2 to Fuels, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Energy storage, Hydrogen, Renewable Products and Chemicals, Solar Energy
Category(s): Physical Science, Energy & Power, Environmental, Alternative Energy
Zigzag Flow Reactor for Thermochemical Energy Storage
As the world gears up for the ongoing renewable energy revolution, the temporal variability of the renewable sources remains a big headache for designing a reliable electricity grid. A multi-level energy storage infrastructure is thus necessary to maintain high, year-round dispatchability. No technology that currently exists is ideally suited to meet...
Published: 7/15/2023   |   Inventor(s): Rhushikesh Ghotkar, Ryan Milcarek, Ivan Ermanoski, James Miller, Roy Hogan, Jr.
Keywords(s): Energy, Energy storage, PS-Energy and Power, Thermal Storage
Category(s): Alternative Energy, Energy & Power, Physical Science
Non-Photosynthetic Food Production
The entire human food system is photosynthesis-based, i.e. it originates as plant matter/biomass. Contrary to popular perception, domestic animals are not the most inefficient link in the human food chain, photosynthesis in plants is. While the theoretical energy efficiency of photosynthesis is about 26%, when you take into account nonabsorbable incident...
Published: 2/23/2023   |   Inventor(s): Ivan Ermanoski, Ellen Stechel
Keywords(s): Agriculture and Animal Science, Culinary, Energy Efficiency, Environmental, Food, Grain, Nutrition, Microbes, bacteria, fungi, virus, yeast
Category(s): Advanced Materials/Nanotechnology, Life Science (All LS Techs), Agriculture/Animal Health
Wireless Power Transmission
There are a number of circumstances where electricity is needed, but wired power delivery is not available, convenient, or technologically feasible. Remote industrial, scientific, and military endeavors often journey beyond established infrastructure, making wired power delivery more complicated, expensive, and dangerous. Also, emergency situations...
Published: 2/23/2023   |   Inventor(s): Ivan Ermanoski, Christian Fortunato, Spring Berman
Keywords(s): Hydrogen, PS-Energy and Power, Wireless power transmission
Category(s): Energy & Power, Physical Science
Thermochemical Labyrinth Reactor
­Thermochemical reactors provide an effective means for water splitting and carbon dioxide splitting. These reactors are able to produce energized chemicals (e.g., hydrogen and carbon monoxide), which can subsequently be used in other chemical reactions (e.g., to reduce, add functionality, etc.) or from which other chemicals can be made (e.g.,...
Published: 2/23/2023   |   Inventor(s): Ivan Ermanoski, James Miller, Roy Hogan, Jr., Ryan Milcarek
Keywords(s): CO2 to Fuels, Energy, Energy Efficiency, High Temperature, Hydrogen, Renewable Products and Chemicals, Solar Energy, Thermal Storage
Category(s): Physical Science, Environmental, Energy & Power
Sorbent-Based Oxygen Separation for Energy Storage Systems
Background Thermochemical energy storage has many practical implementation challenges, one of which is creating and maintaining a low oxygen partial pressure (pO2) during the thermal reduction step. In order to reduce the pO2, current approaches are to either purge the reactor with an inert sweep gas, or vacuum pumping. However, both of these approaches...
Published: 2/23/2023   |   Inventor(s): Mai Xu, Shuguang Deng, Ellen Stechel, Ivan Ermanoski
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Category(s): Physical Science, Energy & Power
Doped Zeolite for Tunable Oxygen Separation and Pumping
Background Oxygen (O2) sorption materials can be used as a means for either producing a low partial pressure of oxygen (PO2) environment for chemical processes or in the production of O2 rich gas (>21 %) from leaner O2 gas streams (O2 composition < 21% down to PO2 < 10 Pa or lower). Oxygen removal and O2 enrichment are critical processes in...
Published: 2/23/2023   |   Inventor(s): Steven Wilson, Christopher Muhich, Ellen Stechel, Ivan Ermanoski
Keywords(s): Environmental, Fuel Cells, Energy, Materials and Electronics
Category(s): Physical Science, Alternative Energy, Energy & Power, Environmental, Manufacturing/Construction/Mechanical, Advanced Materials/Nanotechnology
Electrically Powered Thermochemical Reactor for Two-Step Splitting of Water or Carbon Dioxide
Background Thermochemical reactors can provide an effective means for splitting water and carbon dioxide. These reactors are able to produce energized chemicals such as H2 and CO, which can be subsequently used in other chemical reactions (e.g., as reductants or as fuels). In water splitting, the main competing technologies are steam-methane reforming...
Published: 2/23/2023   |   Inventor(s): Ivan Ermanoski
Keywords(s): CO2 to Fuels, Electric Grid Load Leveling, Energy, Energy Efficiency, Energy storage, Renewable Products and Chemicals, Solar Energy
Category(s): Alternative Energy, Energy & Power, Manufacturing/Construction/Mechanical, Physical Science
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for Delivery of Low-Pressure Hydrogen Gas
The common approach for transportation of hydrogen - the least dense of all gasses - is to substantially densify it so it can economically suit existing transportation modes. Densification is achieved by compression (up to 700 bar), by liquefaction (cooling below -253 °C), or by chemical conversion. Conventional hydrogen transportation methods often...
Published: 2/23/2023   |   Inventor(s): Ivan Ermanoski
Keywords(s): Hydrogen, PS-Energy and Power, Transportation
Category(s): Physical Science, Manufacturing/Construction/Mechanical, Energy & Power, Alternative Energy, Alternative Energy/Biofuels/Bioplastics/Algae
High-Temperature Low-Cost Heater Lamp
Background High-temperature heaters have many applications, including the high-temperature processing of materials. As fossil fuel burners, such as natural gas burners, are replaced with renewable alternatives, the number of applications will increase. Conventional high temperature electrical heaters have been based on silicon carbide or molybdenum...
Published: 2/23/2023   |   Inventor(s): Ivan Ermanoski, Xiang Gao, Ryan Milcarek
Keywords(s): CO2 to Fuels, Energy, Energy storage, High Temperature, High Temperature Materials
Category(s): Physical Science, Manufacturing/Construction/Mechanical, Energy & Power
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