SBIR Phase I: The Development of a Solar Energy Thermal Process for Producing Fullerenes

SBIR 第一阶段：开发用于生产富勒烯的太阳能热工艺

• 批准号: 9561291
• 负责人: Timothy Lowe
• 金额: $ 7.5万
• 依托单位: Materials and Electrochemical Research Corporation (MER)
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-05-01 至 1996-10-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9561291&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; Development; Solar; Energy

9561291 Wang This Small Business Innovative Research Phase I project will investigate the technical feasibility of using concentrated solar energy to continuously evaporate waste forms of carbon and establish the economic feasibility of producing fullerenes using the proposed solar-thermal process. Concentrated solar energy is an environmentally benign and novel method for achieving ultra-high heat fluxes. The proposed solar-thermal process would provide a pollution-free supply of energy for synthesis processes that require focused intense heat. The production of fullerenes (buckyballs) requires very high temperatures to vaporize carbon and condense C60, C70, and other complex carbon molecules. Fullerenes are currently produced using an electric arc between expensive graphite rods. This process is quite energy intensive and the electrical generation, graphite rod production and organic solvent extraction of the fullerenes associated with this process contribute to the production of waste. Concentrated solar energy is ideal for vaporizing a variety of forms of carbon_which is some cases is a waste product_for the synthesis of fullerenes. The feasibility of this process has been demonstrated on a batch basis and has the potential of being significantly more economical than the existing electric arc process. The primary benefit of this Phase I project will be to establish an environmentally benign process of utilizing waste carbon and solar energy to economically produce fullerenes to meet the projected demand of fullerenes dor electrodes in hydride batteries, fuel cells, gas storage of hydrogen, oxygen and hydrocarbons and as precursors to deposit diamond. The grantee is the largest producer of fullerenes and plans to scale production to one ton/day in 1998 for an established application of fullerenes.

小行星9561291 该小型企业创新研究第一阶段项目将研究使用集中的太阳能连续蒸发碳废物的技术可行性，并确定使用拟议的太阳能热工艺生产富勒烯的经济可行性。集中太阳能是实现超高热通量的一种环境友好的新方法。拟议的太阳能热工艺将为需要集中强热的合成工艺提供无污染的能源供应。富勒烯（巴基球）的生产需要非常高的温度来蒸发碳并冷凝C60，C70和其他复杂的碳分子。富勒烯目前是使用昂贵的石墨棒之间的电弧来生产的。该过程是相当能量密集的，并且与该过程相关的发电、石墨棒生产和富勒烯的有机溶剂提取有助于产生废物。集中的太阳能是理想的蒸发各种形式的碳-这是某些情况下是一个废物-为合成富勒烯。该工艺的可行性已在批量基础上得到证明，并且具有比现有电弧工艺显著更经济的潜力。 第一阶段项目的主要好处是建立一个环境友好的过程，利用废碳和太阳能经济地生产富勒烯，以满足氢化物电池、燃料电池、氢、氧和碳氢化合物的气体储存以及作为存款金刚石前体的富勒烯或电极的预期需求。 该受赠者是富勒烯的最大生产商，计划在1998年将富勒烯的既定用途的生产规模扩大到每天一吨。