Patents Assigned to Guangzhou Institute of Energy Conversion, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  • Patent number: 11401784
    Abstract: An in-situ hydraulic jet exploiting device and method of a low-permeability natural gas hydrate reservoir. The device includes a high-pressure reaction kettle configured for formation, fracturing and exploiting of a hydrate, a stable-pressure gas supply module configured to adjust and control a gas flow rate, a constant-speed constant-pressure liquid supply module configured to control a liquid flow rate or keep liquid injection pressure constant, a thermostatic water bath configured to provide a constant-temperature environment for a device system, a back-pressure module configured to automatically control an exploiting rate or exploiting pressure, an in-situ hydraulic jet permeability enhancement module, a data collection and processing module configured to collect and process basic system parameters, and a pipeline connecting various components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Xiaosen Li, Pengfei Shen, Gang Li, Zhaoyang Chen, Yu Zhang, Yi Wang
  • Publication number: 20220235632
    Abstract: A device and a method for physical characterization in a large-scale natural gas hydrate experimental system are provided. The device includes a reactor, horizontal wellbores, and vertical wellbores. The reactor includes an upper cover, a lower cover, and a reactor body, and the upper cover and the lower cover are sealably attached to two ends of the reactor to form a closed chamber. The physical characterization device further includes lateral vertical well assemblies and temperature-pressure-resistance assemblies, wherein the lateral vertical well assemblies and the temperature-pressure-resistance assemblies are disposed to penetrate the reactor from the upper cover to the lower cover. The physical characterization method is conducted using the physical characterization device, including a step of producing contour plots using a data processing software with three-dimensional matrix data collected by the pressure measuring tubes, the temperature measuring tubes, and the resistivity measuring columns.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Xiaosen LI, Zhaoyang CHEN, Yi WANG, Zhiming XIA, Gang LI, Yu ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20220235646
    Abstract: A comprehensive three-dimensional exploitation experimental system for large-scale and full-sized exploitation wells includes a reactor, configured to prepare a natural gas hydrate sample, for simulating an environment for forming a natural gas hydrate reservoir in seafloor sediments. The reactor includes a reactor body, an upper cover disposed at an upper surface of the reactor body, and a lower cover disposed at a lower surface of the reactor body; a gas introducing module, configured to introduce gas to the reactor during hydrate formation; a liquid introducing module, configured to introduce liquid to the reactor during hydrate formation; a temperature regulating module, configured to regulate a temperature in the reactor; a data collecting-processing-displaying module, configured to collect, store, process and display data of the comprehensive three-dimensional exploitation experimental system during an experiment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Applicant: GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Xiaosen LI, Yi WANG, Zhaoyang CHEN, Zhiming XIA, Yu ZHANG, Gang LI
  • Publication number: 20220228474
    Abstract: A flow field measurement device and a method for a scale model of a natural gas hydrate reservoir are provided. The measurement device includes non-central vertical well pressure sensors, non-central vertical well outlet valves, communicating vessel valves, differential pressure sensors, a communicating vessel, a central vertical well outlet valve, and a central vertical well pressure sensor. By providing differential pressure sensors, between a measuring point of the central vertical well and a measuring point of each of the non-central vertical wells, to measure pressure differences, the flow field measurement device enables a reasonable distribution of a three-dimensional space inside the reactor to analyze gas-liquid flow trends in the reactor with a simulated flow field. Determining whether to turn on the differential pressure sensors according to a predetermination based on a feedback from the pressure sensors, allows flow field measurements in the reactor under both high and low pressure differences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Xiaosen LI, Yi WANG, Zhaoyang CHEN, Zhiming XIA, Gang LI, Yu ZHANG
  • Publication number: 20220228464
    Abstract: A device for measuring stratum deformation caused by natural gas hydrate dissociation is provided. The device is configured to be disposed inside a natural gas hydrate reactor, wherein the natural gas hydrate reactor is configured to simulate natural gas hydrate formation layers in the natural gas hydrate reactor, and the natural gas hydrate formation layers include a superstratum layer, a sediment layer and a substratum layer from top to bottom. The device includes a displacement sensor fixing plate, displacement sensors and a flexible elastic plate. A plurality of displacement sensors are provided and evenly distributed, wherein a first end of each displacement sensor is fixed to the displacement sensor fixing plate and a second end of each displacement sensor is stretchably and sealingly fixed to the flexible elastic plate. The flexible elastic plate is tightly attached to the superstratum layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2020
    Publication date: July 21, 2022
    Applicant: GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Xiaosen LI, Yi WANG, Zhaoyang CHEN, Zhiming XIA, Yu ZHANG, Gang LI
  • Patent number: 11345869
    Abstract: A hydrate formation promoter and the use thereof in methane storage. The hydrate formation promoter is a mixed aqueous solution including cyclopentane, sodium dodecyl sulfate and water, wherein a volume fraction of the cyclopentane is 5% to 23.4% and a mass fraction of the sodium dodecyl sulfate is 0.01% to 0.08%. The hydrate formation promoter can realize effective and rapid formation of methane hydrate at approximate room temperature (25° C.), and can remain stable at higher temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Xiaosen Li, Yisong Yu, Zhaoyang Chen
  • Publication number: 20220089796
    Abstract: A hydrate kinetic inhibitor, which is prepared by a polymerization of mercaptoethanol and N-vinylcaprolactam, is hydroxyl terminated poly(N-vinylcaprolactam) having a structure of formula (I) below, wherein n=10 to 1000. The inhibitor is a novel hydrate kinetic inhibitor, which has low effective concentration and high cloud point, and is effective when the degree of supercooling is relatively high.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Deqing LIANG, Li WAN
  • Patent number: 11271209
    Abstract: A preparation method of a crosslinking-type aqueous binder for lithium-ion batteries. An organic carboxylic group-, amino group- or hydroxyl group-containing hydrophilic polymer, and a hydroxyl group-, amine group- or carboxyl group-containing water-soluble small-molecule crosslinker, both serve as starting materials of the aqueous binder, and can be crosslinked by esterification or amidation under coating and drying conditions of lithium-ion battery electrode slurry. The preparation method of the crosslinking-type aqueous binder is simple, without the need of modifying the current process or conditions for lithium-ion battery manufacture. The obtained electrodes have excellent binding capacity, flexibility, and elasticity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Lingzhi Zhang, Jing Su
  • Patent number: 11245284
    Abstract: A method and an electronic device for power allocation of multi-parallel power electronic transformers, the method including: determining a quantity of conversion stages of the power electronic transformers; obtaining a load ratio-efficiency relationship between the two ports of each conversion stage in turn, performing a curve fitting to obtain a load ratio-efficiency curve of each conversion stage of the power electronic transformers; calculating a load ratio-loss relationship of each conversion stage, based on the load ratio-efficiency curve of each conversion stage; obtaining a multi-parallel minimum-operation-loss power allocation curve of each conversion stage; performing a piecewise curve fitting of the minimum-operation-loss power allocation curve to obtain a multi-parallel optimum power allocation mathematical model of each stage; and determining an optimum power allocation to each port of the multi-parallel power electronic transformers, based on the multi-parallel optimum power allocation mathemati
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Lei Huang, Jie Shu, Qiong Cui, Jiyuan Zhang, Hao Wang
  • Publication number: 20220025244
    Abstract: A natural gas hydrate inhibitor having a structure of formula (1) or formula (2). The inhibitor of the present invention is synthesized on the basis of N-vinylpyrrolidone by introducing a new structural group to achieve terminal modification of the polymer chain, which thereby improves the inhibitory effect. wherein R is a C1-8 hydrocarbon group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Applicant: GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Cuiping TANG, Deqing LIANG
  • Publication number: 20210404296
    Abstract: An in-situ hydraulic jet exploiting device and method of a low-permeability natural gas hydrate reservoir. The device includes a high-pressure reaction kettle configured for formation, fracturing and exploiting of a hydrate, a stable-pressure gas supply module configured to adjust and control a gas flow rate, a constant-speed constant-pressure liquid supply module configured to control a liquid flow rate or keep liquid injection pressure constant, a thermostatic water bath configured to provide a constant-temperature environment for a device system, a back-pressure module configured to automatically control an exploiting rate or exploiting pressure, an in-situ hydraulic jet permeability enhancement module, a data collection and processing module configured to collect and process basic system parameters, and a pipeline connecting various components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Xiaosen LI, Pengfei SHEN, Gang LI, Zhaoyang CHEN, Yu ZHANG, Yi WANG
  • Publication number: 20210404295
    Abstract: An exploiting method and device of marine facies natural gas hydrate. The exploiting method comprises the following steps: (1) after the construction of a vertical well, a fixed pipe is constructed, the exploiting well is set in the center of the fixed pipe, and the mixture is filled between the inner wall of the fixed pipe and the outer wall of the exploiting well; (2) the self-excited oscillating jet nozzle enters the exploiting well along the vertical well to the designated position through an orifice on the exploiting well and sprays the mixture, so that the mixture is broken evenly to form artificial fractures; (3) under the corresponding temperature, the hydrate decomposes to produce gas by depressurized exploiting; (4) the gas-liquid mixture exploited by the exploiting well is separated into liquid and gas in the gas-liquid separation device to collect liquid and gas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Xiaosen LI, Pengfei SHEN, Gang LI, Zhaoyang CHEN, Yu ZHANG, Yi WANG, Jianwu LIU
  • Publication number: 20210359541
    Abstract: A method and an electronic device for power allocation of multi-parallel power electronic transformers, the method including: determining a quantity of conversion stages of the power electronic transformers; obtaining a load ratio-efficiency relationship between the two ports of each conversion stage in turn, performing a curve fitting to obtain a load ratio-efficiency curve of each conversion stage of the power electronic transformers; calculating a load ratio-loss relationship of each conversion stage, based on the load ratio-efficiency curve of each conversion stage; obtaining a multi-parallel minimum-operation-loss power allocation curve of each conversion stage; performing a piecewise curve fitting of the minimum-operation-loss power allocation curve to obtain a multi-parallel optimum power allocation mathematical model of each stage; and determining an optimum power allocation to each port of the multi-parallel power electronic transformers, based on the multi-parallel optimum power allocation mathemati
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2018
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Applicant: GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Lei HUANG, Jie SHU, Qiong CUI, Jiyuan ZHANG, Hao WANG
  • Publication number: 20210332195
    Abstract: A solid-liquid separation device includes a kettle body, a piston, a stirrer, a separation plate having filtration pores, and a filtration mesh. The kettle body is hollow along an axial direction to form a chamber body. The separation plate is fitly installed in the chamber body, and divides the chamber body into a washing chamber and a draining chamber. The piston and the stirrer are fitly disposed in the washing chamber. The filtration mesh is attached on a side of the separation plate to cover the filtration pores. The kettle body is further provided with a feed inlet, a water inlet, a material outlet, and a liquid outlet. The feed inlet and material outlet are communicated with the washing chamber, and the water inlet and the liquid outlet are communicated with the draining chamber. The method includes the following steps: feeding, solid-liquid separation, washing, and material discharge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Applicant: GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Wen WANG, Xinshu ZHUANG, Xuesong TAN, Qiong WANG, Qiang YU, Wei QI, Zhongming WANG
  • Publication number: 20210254862
    Abstract: A ladder-structural gravity-assisted-heat-pipe geothermal energy recovery system without liquid-accumulation effect, comprises a ladder-structural gravity-assisted heat pipe, a condenser, and a liquid tank. The ladder-structural gravity-assisted heat pipe comprises a return pipe, an outer pipe and an inner pipe. The return pipe is provided in a space between the outer pipe and the inner pipe and communicated with the liquid tank, and the space between the outer pipe and the inner pipe is divided to form a ladder structure. A liquid working medium flows from the liquid tank through the return pipe into each section sequentially, absorbs heat from a high-temperature rock through a wall of the outer pipe, vaporizes into a gaseous working medium, gets into the inner pipe, and rises to the condenser to condense and flows to the liquid tank to circulate. Such design greatly improves the heat transfer efficiency in geothermal energy recovery using ultra-long heat pipes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Applicant: GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Fangming JIANG, Wenbo HUANG, Wenjiong CAO, Yiwei WANG
  • Patent number: 11046904
    Abstract: An apparatus for growing hydrate crystals includes a high-pressure-resistant crystallization vessel, a temperature control system, a pressure control system, a data collection system, and a mobile shelf. The apparatus can realize a variety of experimental methods such as the bubble method, the droplet method and the solution growth method by changing the experimental fitting in the high-pressure-resistant crystallization vessel, and thereby-improve the versatility of the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Xuebing Zhou, Deqing Liang, Zhen Long, Xiaodong Shen
  • Patent number: 10913813
    Abstract: A vinylamide block copolymer kinetic hydrate inhibitor and a preparation method thereof are disclosed. The vinylamide block copolymer kinetic hydrate inhibitor has a structural formula as shown in formula I. Through reverse atom transfer radical polymerization, under an anaerobic operating condition, with vinylcaprolactam and acrylamide as monomers, dimethylformamide as a solvent, azobisisobutyronitrile as an initiator, and a transition metal complex composed of a catalyst anhydrous copper chloride and a ligand 2,2?-bipyridine as a catalytic system, the method has achieved to catalyze a controllable free radical solution polymerization to obtain a poly(vinylcaprolactam-acrylamide) block copolymer kinetic hydrate inhibitor. The synthesized kinetic hydrate inhibitor has a controllable molecular weight, a narrow molecular weight distribution, and a controllable synthesis process, and exhibits an excellent inhibitory effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Zhen Long, Qihang Ding, Deqing Liang
  • Patent number: 10882990
    Abstract: A multi-functionally modified polymer binder for lithium ion batteries, which is prepared by a free radical graft copolymerization or a Michael addition reaction, with a biomass polymer or a synthetic polymer as a substrate, and a hydrophilic monomer and a lipophilic monomer as functionally modifying monomers. The binder presents a three-dimensional network body with a multi-branch structure, provides more active cites for contacting with the electrode active materials, improves uniformity and flatness in the formation of films from electrode slurry, enhances the binding strength between the electrode active materials, the conductive agents and the current collector, has high elasticity and binding strength, and is applicable in water/organic solvent. Use of the binder in positive electrodes and negative electrodes can facilitate the conduction of electrons/ions during charging and discharging, reduce the electrochemical interface impedance of the electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Lingzhi Zhang, Jiarong He
  • Publication number: 20200339900
    Abstract: A hydrate formation promoter and the use thereof in methane storage. The hydrate formation promoter is a mixed aqueous solution including cyclopentane, sodium dodecyl sulfate and water, wherein a volume fraction of the cyclopentane is 5% to 23.4% and a mass fraction of the sodium dodecyl sulfate is 0.01% to 0.08%. The hydrate formation promoter can realize effective and rapid formation of methane hydrate at approximate room temperature (25° C.), and can remain stable at higher temperatures.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Publication date: October 29, 2020
    Applicant: GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Xiaosen LI, Yisong YU, Zhaoyang CHEN
  • Publication number: 20200318022
    Abstract: An apparatus for growing hydrate crystals includes a high-pressure-resistant crystallization vessel, a temperature control system, a pressure control system, a data collection system, and a mobile shelf. The apparatus can realize a variety of experimental methods such as the bubble method, the droplet method and the solution growth method by changing the experimental fitting in the high-pressure-resistant crystallization vessel, and thereby-improve the versatility of the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Publication date: October 8, 2020
    Applicant: GUANGZHOU INSTITUTE OF ENERGY CONVERSION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
    Inventors: Xuebing ZHOU, Deqing LIANG, Zhen LONG, Xiaodong SHEN