Patents by Inventor Olga A. Marina

Olga A. Marina 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).

  • Patent number: 9879352
    Abstract: Methods and systems for fuel, chemical, and/or electricity production from electrochemical cells are disclosed. A voltage is applied between an anode and a cathode of an electrochemical cell. The anode includes a metal or metal oxide electrocatalyst. Oxygen is supplied to the cathode, producing oxygen ions. The anode electrocatalyst is at least partially oxidized by the oxygen ions transported through an electrolyte from the cathode to the anode. A feed gas stream is supplied to the anode electrocatalyst, which is converted to a liquid fuel. The anode electrocatalyst is re-oxidized to higher valency oxides, or a mixture of oxide phases, by supplying the oxygen ions to the anode. The re-oxidation by the ions is controlled or regulated by the amount of voltage applied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Olga A. Marina, Larry R. Pederson
  • Publication number: 20150292093
    Abstract: Methods and systems for fuel, chemical, and/or electricity production from electrochemical cells are disclosed. A voltage is applied between an anode and a cathode of an electrochemical cell. The anode includes a metal or metal oxide electrocatalyst. Oxygen is supplied to the cathode, producing oxygen ions. The anode electrocatalyst is at least partially oxidized by the oxygen ions transported through an electrolyte from the cathode to the anode. A feed gas stream is supplied to the anode electrocatalyst, which is converted to a liquid fuel. The anode electrocatalyst is re-oxidized to higher valency oxides, or a mixture of oxide phases, by supplying the oxygen ions to the anode. The re-oxidation by the ions is controlled or regulated by the amount of voltage applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2015
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Applicant: BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Olga A. Marina, Larry R. Pederson
  • Publication number: 20110185899
    Abstract: Methods for abatement of antimony-containing, arsenic-containing and/or phosphorous-containing impurities in fuel gas that is derived from a carbonaceous source can include contacting the fuel gas with an absorbent comprising a capture compound. The capture compound has one or more alkali metals, one or more alkaline earth metals, or a combination of one or more alkali and alkaline earth metals. The fuel gas impurities are reacted with the capture compound, which can be used alone or dispersed on the adsorbent, at a temperature greater than or equal to approximately 300° C. to form solid capture products comprising antimony, arsenic, or phosphorous and the alkali or alkaline earth metal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2010
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Applicant: Battelle Memorial Institute
    Inventors: Larry R. Pederson, Olga A. Marina, Christopher A. Coyle, Gregory W. Coffey, Edwin C. Thomsen, Liyu Li, Carolyn N. Cramer, Gary L. McVay
  • Patent number: 7838141
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel compositions that find advantageous use in making electrodes for electrochemical cells and electrochemical devices such as solid oxide fuel cells, electrolyzers, sensors, pumps and the like, the compositions comprising cerium-modified doped strontium titanate. The invention also provides novel methods for making and using anode material compositions and solid oxide fuel cells and solid oxide fuel cell assemblies having anodes comprising the compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Battelle Memorial Institute
    Inventors: Olga A. Marina, Jeffry W. Stevenson
  • Patent number: 7758992
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel compositions that find advantageous use in making electrodes for electrochemical cells. Also provided are electrochemical devices that include active oxygen reduction electrodes, such as solid oxide fuel cells, sensors, pumps and the like. The compositions comprises a copper-substituted ferrite perovskite material. The invention also provides novel methods for making and using the electrode compositions and solid oxide fuel cells and solid oxide fuel cell assemblies having cathodes comprising the compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2010
    Assignee: Battelle Memorial Institute
    Inventors: Peter C. Rieke, Gregory W. Coffey, Larry R. Pederson, Olga A. Marina, John S. Hardy, Prabhaker Singh, Edwin C. Thomsen
  • Publication number: 20100143818
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel compositions that find advantageous use in making electrodes for electrochemical cells. Also provided are electrochemical devices that include active oxygen reduction electrodes, such as solid oxide fuel cells, sensors, pumps and the like. The compositions comprises a copper-substituted ferrite perovskite material. The invention also provides novel methods for making and using the electrode compositions and solid oxide fuel cells and solid oxide fuel cell assemblies having cathodes comprising the compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2003
    Publication date: June 10, 2010
    Inventors: Peter C. Rieke, Gregory W. Coffey, Larry R. Pederson, Olga A. Marina, John S. Hardy, Prabhaker Singh, Edwin C. Thomsen
  • Patent number: 7670711
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel compositions that find advantageous use in making electrodes for electrochemical cells and electrochemical devices such as solid oxide fuel cells, electrolyzers, sensors, pumps and the like, the compositions comprising cerium-modified doped strontium titanate. The invention also provides novel methods for making and using anode material compositions and solid oxide fuel cells and solid oxide fuel cell assemblies having anodes comprising the compositions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2010
    Assignee: Battelle Memorial Institute
    Inventors: Olga A. Marina, Jeffry W. Stevenson
  • Publication number: 20100009222
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel compositions that find advantageous use in making electrodes for electrochemical cells and electrochemical devices such as solid oxide fuel cells, electrolyzers, sensors, pumps and the like, the compositions comprising cerium-modified doped strontium titanate. The invention also provides novel methods for making and using anode material compositions and solid oxide fuel cells and solid oxide fuel cell assemblies having anodes comprising the compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2009
    Publication date: January 14, 2010
    Inventors: Olga A. Marina, Jeffry W. Stevenson
  • Patent number: 7468218
    Abstract: An anode and method of making the same wherein the anode consists of two separate phases, one consisting of a doped strontium titanate phase and one consisting of a doped cerium oxide phase. The strontium titanate phase consists of Sr1-xMxTiO3-?, where M is either yttrium (Y), scandium (Sc), or lanthanum (La), where “x” may vary typically from about 0.01 to about 0.5, and where ? is indicative of some degree of oxygen non-stoichiometry. A small quantity of cerium may also substitute for titanium in the strontium titanate lattice. The cerium oxide consists of NyCe1-yO2-?, where N is either niobium (Nb), vanadium (V), antimony (Sb) or tantalum (Ta) and where “y” may vary typically from about 0.001 to about 0.1 and wherein the ratio of Ti in said first phase to the sum of Ce and N in the second phase is between about 0.2 to about 0.75. Small quantities of strontium, yttrium, and/or lanthanum may additionally substitute into the cerium oxide lattice.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2008
    Assignee: Battelle Memorial Institute
    Inventors: Olga A. Marina, Larry R. Pederson
  • Publication number: 20050250000
    Abstract: An anode and method of making the same wherein the anode consists of two separate phases, one consisting of a doped strontium titanate phase and one consisting of a doped cerium oxide phase. The strontium titanate phase consists of Sr1-xMxTiO3-?, where M is either yttrium (Y), scandium (Sc), or lanthanum (La), where “x” may vary typically from about 0.01 to about 0.5, and where ? is indicative of some degree of oxygen non-stoichiometry. A small quantity of cerium may also substitute for titanium in the strontium titanate lattice. The cerium oxide consists of NyCe1-yO2-?, where N is either niobium (Nb), vanadium (V), antimony (Sb) or tantalum (Ta) and where “y” may vary typically from about 0.001 to about 0.1 and wherein the ratio of Ti in said first phase to the sum of Ce and N in the second phase is between about 0.2 to about 0.75. Small quantities of strontium, yttrium, and/or lanthanum may additionally substitute into the cerium oxide lattice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2004
    Publication date: November 10, 2005
    Applicant: Battelle Memorial Institute
    Inventors: Olga Marina, Larry Pederson
  • Publication number: 20040001994
    Abstract: The present invention provides novel compositions that find advantageous use in making electrodes for electrochemical cells and electrochemical devices such as solid oxide fuel cells, electrolyzers, sensors, pumps and the like, the compositions comprising cerium-modified doped strontium titanate. The invention also provides novel methods for making and using anode material compositions and solid oxide fuel cells and solid oxide fuel cell assemblies having anodes comprising the compositions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2003
    Publication date: January 1, 2004
    Inventors: Olga A. Marina, Jeffry W. Stevenson
  • Patent number: 6565737
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for selectively removing oxygen from a gas stream containing NOx and oxygen by contacting the gas stream with an electrochemical cell made from an electrode consisting of La1-XMXFeO3, (where M is selected from the group consisting of Sr, Ba, Ca, and combinations thereof, and X is between 0.05 and 0.5), a solid oxide electrolyte and a counter electrode, wherein the La1-XMXFeO3 electrode is on one side of a solid oxide electrolyte, and a counter electrode is on the opposite side of the solid oxide electrolyte, and applying a voltage to the electrochemical cell. The apparatus is preferably employed in a two chambered NOx sensor utilizing solid electrolyte electrochemical cells, wherein an electrochemical cell capable of catalyzing oxygen reduction without catalyzing NOx decomposition is formed as integral to the first chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2003
    Assignee: Battelle Memorial Institute
    Inventors: Olga A. Marina, Craig F. Habeger
  • Publication number: 20020108863
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for selectively removing oxygen from a gas stream containing NOx and oxygen by contacting the gas stream with an electrochemical cell made from an electrode consisting of La1-XMXFeO3, (where M is selected from the group consisting of Sr, Ba, Ca, and combinations thereof, and X is between 0.05 and 0.5), a solid oxide electrolyte and a counter electrode, wherein the La1-XMXFeO3 electrode is on one side of a solid oxide electrolyte, and a counter electrode is on the opposite side of the solid oxide electrolyte, and applying a voltage to the electrochemical cell. The apparatus is preferably employed in a two chambered NOX sensor utilizing solid electrolyte electrochemical cells, wherein an electrochemical cell capable of catalyzing oxygen reduction without catalyzing NOX decomposition is formed as integral to the first chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2000
    Publication date: August 15, 2002
    Inventors: Olga A. Marina, Craig F. Habeger