Energy strage as OH in molecules using poly-silnane catalyst

2013 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23560346
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Power engineering/Power conversion/Electric machinery
• Research Institution: Toyota Technological Institute
• Principal Investigator: OHSHITA Yoshio 豊田工業大学, 工学(系)研究科(研究院), 教授 (10329849)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): MACHIDA Hideaki 気相成長株式会社, 研究員 (30535670)
• Project Period (FY): 2011 – 2013
• Keywords: 電気エネルギー / 発生 / 変換 / 貯蔵

Research Abstract

In our proposed future energy system, the water will be decomposed by the energy generated by solar cells into hydrogen and oxygen molecules, the obtained hydrogen molecules are decomposed with the catalyst and then proton atoms are generated. These proton atoms add in the molecules as OH. This means that the solar energy is stored in the molecule. We will generate the electrical power by using these stored hydrogen and fuel batteries. By using polysilan-palladium catalyst, hydrogen molecules were decomposed and the generated protons were incorporated into molecules such as 1,4-Benzoquinone, 2-Methyl-1,4-benzoquinone, and oxygen double bonds in them changed to OH structure. From the view points of future direction, the glucose related molecules of product-of-nature origin were used as target molecules. Although Pt, Fe and Pd related catalyst were adopted, the sufficient results were not obtained. The more detail experiments and discussion will be required.