Metal porous body sheet and water electrolysis device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2023080341-A1
Application number	US-202117793541-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	Jan 21, 2021
Priority date	Jan 27, 2020
Publication date	Mar 16, 2023
Grant date	—

Abstract

A metal porous body sheet includes a metal porous body having a three-dimensional mesh structure and has a first main surface and a second main surface that is a reverse surface to the first main surface. The first main surface is formed with multiple holes extending from the first main surface toward the second main surface along a first direction.

First claim

1 . A metal porous body sheet including a metal porous body having a three-dimensional mesh structure, the metal porous body sheet comprising a first main surface and a second main surface that is a reverse surface to the first main surface, wherein
the first main surface is formed with multiple holes extending along a first direction from the first main surface toward the second main surface.

2 . The metal porous body sheet according to claim 1 , wherein each of the multiple holes penetrates the metal porous body sheet along the first direction.

3 . The metal porous body sheet according to claim 1 , wherein each of the multiple holes has an inner diameter that decreases from a first main surface side toward a second main surface side.

4 . The metal porous body sheet according to claim 1 , wherein
the first main surface is divided into multiple regions along a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and inner diameters of the multiple holes located in a first region that is one of the multiple regions are smaller than inner diameters of the multiple holes located in a second region that is another one of the multiple regions.

5 . The metal porous body sheet according to claim 1 , wherein
the first main surface is divided into multiple regions along a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, and a value obtained by dividing a number of the multiple holes located in a first region that is one of the multiple regions by an area of the first region is smaller than a value obtained by dividing a number of the multiple holes located in a second region that is another one of the multiple regions by an area of the second region.

6 . A water electrolysis device comprising an electrolysis electrode having the metal porous body sheet according to claim 1 .

7 . A metal porous body sheet comprising a first main surface and a second main surface that is a reverse surface to the first main surface, wherein
the first main surface is formed with multiple holes penetrating the metal porous body sheet along a first direction from the first main surface toward the second main surface, the metal porous body sheet has a porosity of greater than or equal to 80%, and a value obtained by dividing a total opening area of the multiple holes in the first main surface by an area of the first main surface is greater than or equal to 0.05 and less than or equal to 0.35.

8 . The metal porous body sheet according to claim 7 , wherein
the metal porous body sheet includes a metal porous body having a three-dimensional mesh structure, and an average pore diameter of pores in the metal porous body sheet when viewed in a direction orthogonal to the first main surface is greater than or equal to 100 μm.

9 . The metal porous body sheet according to claim 7 , wherein
the multiple holes are arranged along a second direction orthogonal to the first direction so as to form multiple columns, the multiple holes included in each of the multiple columns are periodically arranged at a first interval in the second direction, and each of the multiple columns is periodically arranged at a second interval in a third direction orthogonal to the first direction and the second direction.

10 . The metal porous body sheet according to claim 9 , wherein
each of the multiple holes has a first width in the second direction and a second width in the third direction, the first width is greater than or equal to 0.5 mm, and the second width is greater than the first width and is greater than or equal to 1.5 mm.

11 . The metal porous body sheet according to claim 10 , wherein the second width is greater than or equal to twice the first width.

12 . The metal porous body sheet according to claim 11 , wherein
the multiple columns include multiple first columns and multiple second columns, the multiple first columns and the multiple second columns are alternately arranged in the third direction, and the multiple first columns are located at positions shifted from the multiple second columns by 0.5 times the first interval in the second direction.

13 . The metal porous body sheet according to claim 12 , wherein a value obtained by dividing, by the second interval, a value obtained by subtracting the second width from the second interval is greater than or equal to 0.5.

14 . An electrode comprising:
the metal porous body sheet according to claim 13 ; and a support that has a plate shape and that is disposed on the first main surface, wherein the support includes multiple rhombic holes penetrating the support along the first direction and a strand that is located around each of the multiple rhombic holes, the multiple rhombic holes are arranged in a staggered pattern in such a manner that two diagonals extend along the second direction and the third direction, respectively, each of the multiple rhombic holes includes a first vertex and a second vertex adjacent to the first vertex, the strand includes a first intersection adjacent to the first vertex and a second intersection adjacent to the second vertex, the metal porous body sheet is disposed such that the second direction coincides with a vertical direction, and the support is disposed such that a portion of the strand at an intermediate position between the first intersection and the second intersection overlaps the multiple holes.

Assignees

• Sumitomo Electric Industries

Inventors

• Higashino Takahiro
• Okuno Kazuki
• Tawarayama Hiromasa
• Majima Masatoshi
• Okumura Soichiro

Classifications

• Y02E60/36

  Hydrogen production from non-carbon containing sources, e.g. by water electrolysis · CPC title

• C25B11/031 Primary

  Porous electrodes · CPC title

• C25B9/23 Primary

  comprising ion-exchange membranes in or on which electrode material is embedded · CPC title

• C25B1/04

  by electrolysis of water · CPC title