Carbon dioxide gas fixation method and carbon dioxide gas fixation apparatus

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9302216-B2
Application number	US-201113817984-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 30, 2011
Priority date	Aug 31, 2010
Publication date	Apr 5, 2016
Grant date	Apr 5, 2016

Abstract

In the carbon dioxide gas fixation method and carbon dioxide gas fixation apparatus, seawater ( 7 ) is electrolyzed, anodic electrolyzed water ( 7 a ) and cathodic electrolyzed water ( 7 b ) produced by electrolysis of the seawater are separated, alkaline material is inputted into the anodic electrolyzed water to adjust pH, carbon dioxide gas is blown into the cathodic electrolyzed water to fix the carbon dioxide gas as carbonate, and the anodic electrolyzed water after pH adjustment and the cathodic electrolyzed water after carbonate fixation are intermixed, and discharged in a state where a pH of the intermixed water is identical to a pH of the seawater. As a result, it is possible to offer a carbon dioxide gas fixation method and a carbon dioxide gas fixation apparatus which fix carbon dioxide gas with little impact on the environment, and without risk of re-release.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A carbon dioxide gas fixation apparatus, comprising:
an electrolysis tank which has an anode and a cathode;
a barrier membrane which partitions an interior of the electrolysis tank into an anode-side region containing the anode, and a cathode-side region containing the cathode;
a first treatment tank which stores anodic electrolyzed water produced in the anode-side region;
a second treatment tank which stores cathodic electrolyzed water produced in the cathode-side region;
a power-supply unit which supplies power to the anode and the cathode;
an alkaline material input device which inputs alkaline material into the first treatment tank; and
a carbon dioxide gas blower which blows carbon dioxide gas into the second treatment tank,
wherein wastewater from the first treatment tank and wastewater from the second treatment tank are intermixed, and discharged,
wherein the anode comprises a bucket of reticular or porous plates of an insoluble metal as a consumable electrode storage container and contains iron as a consumable electrode, and the consumable electrode dissolves ferric ions.

2. The carbon dioxide gas fixation apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the power-supply unit has at least one of photovoltaic cell, fuel cell, wind power generator, wave power generator, ocean thermal energy generator, and solar thermal power generator.

3. The carbon dioxide gas fixation apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the power-supply unit contains a fuel cell which uses hydrogen gas generated on the cathode-side region, and oxygen gas generated on the anode-side region.

4. The carbon dioxide gas fixation apparatus according to claim 1 , wherein the alkaline material inputted from the alkaline material input device is waste concrete.

Assignees

• Iwamoto Tatsushi
• Akamine Kenichi
• Okuyama Junichi
• Ihi Corp

Inventors

• Iwamoto Tatsushi
• Akamine Kenichi
• Okuyama Junichi

Classifications

• B01D53/62 Primary

  Carbon oxides · CPC title

• C02F1/46104

  Devices therefor; Their operating or servicing · CPC title

• B01D53/14 Primary

  by absorption · CPC title

• C02F2201/46165

  Special power supply, e.g. solar energy or batteries · CPC title

• B01D2251/304

  of sodium · CPC title