Membranes, azeotropic and catalytic components
AssigneesUniversiteit Gent, Caloritum NV
InventorsWouter Ducheyne, Christian Stevens
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Abstract
This invention relates generally to new findings to improve a method of thermal energy storage or heat pump, i.e. increase the thermal energy from an external heat source, using a reversible condensation reaction with an inorganic oxoacid compound. It accordingly provides components to be used in said improved process as well as the use thereof in the aforementioned method, including the use in the manufacture of products of the condensation products or in the manufacture of the hydrolysis products.
Claims14
A method to drive the equilibrium of a reversible condensation reaction of phosphoric acid and water towards higher concentrations of said phosphoric acid and/or the formation of poly phosphoric acids, the method, comprising:
- adding one or more catalysts to a reaction solution so as to drive the equilibrium of the reversible condensation reaction, wherein the reaction solution comprises the phosphoric acid and water.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.