Patents by Inventor Frédéric Grasset

Frédéric Grasset has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20150111130
    Abstract: A method for formulating a ceramic power for producing a proton-conducting electrolytic membrane for an electrochemical cell, includes forming a suspension of a previously synthesized, unprocessed ceramic powder in a solvent having a hydrogen potential greater than 7 so as to produce a slip, the unprocessed ceramic powder including agglomerates consisting of a plurality of ceramic grains, crushing the agglomerates contained in the slip so as to reduce the agglomerates, and drying the slip so as to mechanically separate the agglomerates from the solvent and recover the dried agglomerates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2012
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventors: Béatrice Sala, Frédéric Grasset, Dominique Goeuriot, Baroudi Bendjeriou
  • Publication number: 20140302421
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electrode for an electrochemical cell which exhibits good electron conductivity and good chemical conductivity, as well as good cohesion with the solid electrolyte of the electrochemical cell. To do this, this electrode is made from a ceramic, which is a perovskite doped with a lanthanide having one or more degrees of oxidation and with a complementary doping element taken from the following group: niobium, tantalum, vanadium, phosphorus, arsenic, antimony, bismuth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2012
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE (C.N.R.S.)
    Inventors: Béatrice Sala, Frédéric Grasset, Elodie Tetard, Kamal Rahmouni, Abdelkader Sirat, Dominique Goeuriot, Baroudi Bendjeriou, Hisasi Takenouti
  • Publication number: 20140291162
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for treating CO2 by electrochemical hydrogenation, said method comprising: a step of transferring heat from a heating means (160) towards a proton-conductive electrolyser (110) such that said electrolyser (110) reaches an operating temperature suitable for electrolysing steam; a step of feeding the CO2 produced by said heating means (160) at the cathode of the electrolyser; a step of feeding the steam at the anode; a step of oxidising the steam at the anode; a step of generating protonated species in the membrane with proton conduction; a step of migrating said protonated species into said proton-conductive membrane; a step of reducing said protonated species on the surface of the cathode into reactive hydrogen atoms; and a step of hydrogenating the CO2 on the surface of the cathode of the electrolyser (110) by means of said reactive hydrogen atoms, said hydrogenation step enabling the formation of CxHyOz compounds, where x?1; 0<y?(2x+2) and 0?z?2x.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2012
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Inventors: Béatrice Sala, Frédéric Grasset, Olivier Lacroix, Abdelkader Sirat, Elodie Tetard, Kamal Rahmouni, Joel Mazoyer
  • Publication number: 20140284220
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for generating hydrogen and oxygen adsorbates by steam electrolysis at 200 to 800° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2012
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventors: Béatrice Sala, Frédéric Grasset, Olivier Lacroix, Abdelkader Sirat, Kamal Rahmouni, Michel Keddam, Hisasi Takenouti, Dominique Goeuriot, Baroudi Bendjeriou, Philippe Colomban, Arie Van Der Lee, José Grégorio Sanchez
  • Publication number: 20140227626
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a proton-conductive electrochemical cell (10), comprising an electrolytic membrane (13) made of a ceramic and an electrode (11, 12) made of a cermet, said electrochemical cell (10) being obtained directly by a method of co-sintering a ceramic layer, capable of forming the electrolytic membrane (13), and a cermet layer, capable of forming the electrode (11, 12), in a sintering tool at a sintering temperature of the ceramic that makes it possible to render said ceramic layer, capable of forming the electrolyte (13), gas-tight, wherein said cell (10) is characterised in that said cermet consists of the mixture of a ceramic and an electronically conductive passivatable alloy including at least 40 mol % chromium capable of forming a passive layer, the nature and the chromium content of said passivatable alloy enabling said electrochemical cell to be co-sintered with a membrane densification of more than 90% without melting said alloy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2012
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicants: AREVA, ARMINES, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (C.N.R.S.)
    Inventors: Béatrice Sala, Frédéric Grasset, Elodie Tetard, Kamal Rahmouni, Dominique Goeuriot, Baroudi Bendjeriou, Hisasi Takenouti