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US 10,077,190 B2Granted
Methods and systems for making metal hydride slurries
AssigneeSafe Hydrogen, LLC
InventorsKenneth S. Brown, Jr., David D. G. Bowen, Andrew W. McClaine
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Abstract
A method for making a metal-hydride slurry includes adding metal to a liquid carrier to create a metal slurry and hydriding the metal in the metal slurry to create a metal-hydride slurry. In some embodiments, a metal hydride is added to the liquid carrier of the metal slurry prior to hydriding the metal. The metal can be magnesium and the metal hydride can be magnesium hydride.
Claims26
A method for making a metal-hydride slurry, comprising:
- (a) melting a metal and spraying the melted metal into a liquid carrier in a chamber to produce a metal slurry of metal particles in the liquid carrier such that the melted metal is protected from moisture or oxygen in the air, the spraying comprising introducing a gas in a sprayer to produce atomized droplets comprising the metal particles, wherein the spraying is performed in a hydrogen atmosphere, and wherein hydrogen gas is introduced into the chamber separately from the sprayed melted metal;
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- (b) hydriding the metal particles in the metal slurry to create a metal-hydride slurry.
A method for making a metal-hydride slurry, comprising:
- (a) melting a metal and spraying the melted metal into a liquid carrier in a chamber to produce a metal slurry of metal particles in the liquid carrier such that the melted metal is protected from moisture or oxygen in the air, the metal particles having a diameter of between 0.1 micron and 200 microns, wherein the spraying is performed in a hydrogen atmosphere, and wherein hydrogen gas is introduced into the chamber separately from the sprayed melted metal;
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- (b) hydriding the metal particles in the metal slurry to create a metal-hydride slurry.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.