Inexpensive Inert Anodes for Energy Materials
Closed Solicitation Posted
- Solicitation number
- BA-902_924_971_1008_1090
- Agency
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Department of Energy
- Responses due
- Set-aside
- No set-aside
Opportunity facts
- NAICS code
- 21 Mining, Quarrying, and Oil and Gas Extraction
- Place of performance
- Idaho Falls ID 83415 USA
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Notice text
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Electrometallurgical production of metals and alloys is inherently inexpensive, but leads to dwindling of primary resources and the creation of excessive landfill/waste materials.
- Graphite, though the industry choice, creates greenhouse gasses and is not inert.
- Long-term deployment of a monolithic Platinum Group Metals (PGM) is cost-prohibitive.
INL's solution:
- A suitable combination of Transition Metals (TM) and Platinum Group Metals (PGM) have shown promising results.
- The high temperature strength of TMs and the chemical inertness to obnoxious/reactive gasses of PGMs combine to create an alloy with both characteristics.
- Initial experiments were performed with a molybdenum (TM) - ruthenium (PGM) alloy
- Two electrolytes were used in the temperature ranges
- Alloy anode was exposed to molten salts, oxygen and reactive gasses
- No perceptible damages (thinning, mechanical degradation, necking) were observed in the alloy anode.
Applications
- Recycling photovoltaic (PV) wastes
- Fabrication of thin film modules onto low-cost materials
- Semiconducting-based thin film PV materials
- New alloys for coating energy materials
- Removal of toxic elements (Pb, Cd) from waste materials (TV screens, PV wastes etc.)
INL is seeking to license the above intellectual property to a company with a demonstrated ability to bring such inventions to the market. Exclusive rights in defined fields of use may be available.
Update #1 ·
Electrometallurgical production of metals and alloys is inherently inexpensive, but leads to dwindling of primary resources and the creation of excessive landfill/waste materials.
- Graphite, though the industry choice, creates greenhouse gasses and is not inert.
- Long-term deployment of a monolithic Platinum Group Metals (PGM) is cost-prohibitive.
INL's solution:
- A suitable combination of Transition Metals (TM) and Platinum Group Metals (PGM) have shown promising results.
- The high temperature strength of TMs and the chemical inertness to obnoxious/reactive gasses of PGMs combine to create an alloy with both characteristics.
- Initial experiments were performed with a molybdenum (TM) - ruthenium (PGM) alloy
- Two electrolytes were used in the temperature ranges
- Alloy anode was exposed to molten salts, oxygen and reactive gasses
- No perceptible damages (thinning, mechanical degradation, necking) were observed in the alloy anode.
Applications
- Recycling photovoltaic (PV) wastes
- Fabrication of thin film modules onto low-cost materials
- Semiconducting-based thin film PV materials
- New alloys for coating energy materials
- Removal of toxic elements (Pb, Cd) from waste materials (TV screens, PV wastes etc.)
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