FUEL PRODUCTION APPARATUS

• US 20140245974A1
• Filed: 07/07/2012
• Published: 09/04/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 07/18/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Esam Elsarrag, Yousef Al-Horr
• Original Assignee: Esam Elsarrag, Yousef Al-Horr
• Inventors: Elsarrag, Esam, Al-Horr, Yousef
• Application Number:
  US14/233,560
• Publication Number:
  US 20140245974A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 123/3
• CPC Class Codes: F01N 5/02 the devices using heat
• CPC Class Codes: F01N 5/025 the device being thermoelectric generators
• CPC Class Codes: F02B 63/00 Adaptations of engines for driving pumps, hand-held tools or electric generators; Portable combinations of engines with engine-driven devices of rotary-piston or oscillating-piston engines F02B53/14
• CPC Class Codes: F02G 5/02 Profiting from waste heat of exhaust gases
• CPC Class Codes: F02M 25/12 the apparatus having means for generating such gases using rays and simultaneously generating ozone F02M27/06
• CPC Class Codes: F24H 2240/10 with fuel cells
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 20/14 Combined heat and power generation [CHP]
• CPC Class Codes: Y02E 60/36 Hydrogen production from non-carbon containing sources, e.g. by water electrolysis
• CPC Class Codes: Y02T 10/12 Improving ICE efficiencies

Abstract

The present invention concerns fuel production apparatus for use with a combustion device. The apparatus comprises a fuel cell (12) for generating a combustible gas for combustion by said combustion device and power supply means (6) for said fuel cell, said power supply means comprising means for converting energy from a source of waste energy (2) associated with the combustion device into electrical energy for powering said fuel cell.

Claims

1. Fuel production apparatus for use with a combustion device comprising:

a fuel cell for generating a combustible gas; and

power supply means for said fuel cell, said power supply means comprising means for converting energy from a source of waste energy associated with the combustion device into electrical energy for powering said fuel cell;

wherein the generated combustible gas is fed directly into an air intake stream of said combustion device for combustion by the combustion device.

2. Fuel production apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said power supply means comprises one or more thermoelectric modules.

3. Fuel production apparatus according to claim 2, having one or more thin film thermoelectric modules.

4. Fuel production apparatus according to claim 2, having one or more thick film thermoelectric modules.

5. Fuel production apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the power supply means comprises at least one high or low temperature thermoelectric module.

6. Fuel production apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said waste energy source is derived from an exhaust of the combustion device combusting said combustible gas.

7. Fuel production apparatus according to claim 6, wherein the power supply means is provided at or adjacent an exhaust stream from the combustion device.

8. Fuel production apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the combustion device is an engine for a vehicle and wherein the waste energy source is derived from solar energy applied to the surface of the vehicle.

9. Fuel production apparatus according to claim 8, wherein the solar energy is collected using one or more in combination of photovoltaics (PV) and thermoelectric (TE) so called PV-TE, concentrated solar power (CSP) and thermoelectric (TE) so called CSP-TE or by techniques of artificial photosynthesis.

11. Fuel production apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the combustion device is a boiler.

12. Fuel production apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the combustion device is a fuel cell or a combined heat and power unit.

13. Fuel production apparatus according to claim 1 wherein the combustible gas is Brown'"'"'s gas (HHO).

14. Fuel production apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the combustible gas is hydrogen (H2).

15. Fuel production apparatus according to claim 1, wherein at least some of the electrical energy generated is stored in an electrical storage means.

10. (canceled)

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