Methods and systems for capturing carbon dioxide and producing a fuel using a solvent including a nanoparticle organic hybrid material and a secondary fluid

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9662608-B2
Application number	US-201214237683-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 7, 2012
Priority date	Aug 8, 2011
Publication date	May 30, 2017
Grant date	May 30, 2017

Abstract

Methods and systems for capturing carbon dioxide and producing fuels such as alcohol using a solvent including a nanoparticle organic hybrid material and a secondary fluid are disclosed. In some embodiments, the methods include the following: providing a solvent including a nanoparticle organic hybrid material and a secondary fluid, the material being configured to capture carbon dioxide; introducing a gas including carbon dioxide to the solvent until the material is loaded with carbon dioxide; introducing at least one of catalysts for carbon dioxide reduction and a proton source to the solvent; heating the solvent including the material loaded with carbon dioxide until carbon dioxide loaded on the material is electrochemically converted to a fuel.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A reactor for capturing carbon dioxide and producing fuels using a solvent including a nanoparticle organic hybrid material and a secondary fluid, said reactor comprising:
a reactor body including a plurality of electrodes and a solvent having a nanoparticle organic hybrid material and a secondary fluid, said material being configured to capture carbon dioxide;
a source of gas including carbon dioxide in direct contact with said solvent within said reactor body;
a source of catalysts for carbon dioxide reduction and protons, said source external to and in fluid communication with said reactor body;
a heat source separate from said electrodes for heating said reactor body; and
a control module for directing said source of gas to said reactor body until said material is loaded with carbon dioxide, for providing at least one catalysts and one protons from said source of catalysts and protons to said reactor body, for controlling said electrodes such that the reactor body functions as an electrochemical reactor, and for controlling said heat source so that said solvent including said material loaded with carbon dioxide is heated until carbon dioxide loaded on said material is electrochemically converted to fuels.

Assignees

• Park Ah-Hyung Alissa
• Petit Camille
• Park Youngjune
• Lin Kun-Yi Andrew
• Univ Columbia

Inventors

• Park Ah-Hyung Alissa
• Petit Camille
• Park Youngjune
• Lin Kun-Yi Andrew

Classifications

• Y02P20/152

  Cross-Sectional Technologies · mapped topic

• B01J20/3212

  consisting of a polymer obtained by reactions otherwise than involving only carbon to carbon unsaturated bonds · CPC title

• B01D53/1493 Primary

  Selection of liquid materials for use as absorbents · CPC title

• B01J20/327

  Polymers obtained by reactions involving only carbon to carbon unsaturated bonds · CPC title

• C25B3/00

  Electrolytic production of organic compounds · CPC title