Portable gas generating device and electrical fuel cell power supply comprising such a device
AssigneeCommissariat a l'Energie Atomique
InventorsEmmanuel Damery, Jerome Delmas, Jean-Yves Laurent, Bruno Valon
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Abstract
Device for generating gas by placing a liquid reactant in contact with a solid element, comprising a liquid reactant tank (6) and a reaction chamber (8) intended to contain the solid element, wherein the tank (6) and the reaction chamber (8) are separated in a sealed manner by a mobile wall (4), with an outlet port (26) for collecting the gas generated in the reaction chamber and means (14) for injecting the liquid reactant onto the solid element, which injection means (14) pass through the mobile wall (4) and are capable of moving into the solid element.
Claims23
Device for generating gas by placing a liquid reactant in contact with a solid element, comprising:
- a liquid reactant tank,
- a reaction chamber intended to contain the solid element, and
- an injector for injecting the liquid reactant onto the solid element
- wherein the tank and the reaction chamber being separated in a sealed manner by a mobile wall, with an outlet port for collecting the gas generated in the reaction chamber, and
- wherein the injector passes through the mobile wall and is capable of moving into the solid element.
Gas generating device according to the previous claim, wherein the liquid reactant is an aqueous solution containing a hydride and a stabilizer, for example sodium hydroxide, and the catalyst is platinum, ruthenium, cobalt or a cobalt and boron alloy.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.