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Title: Low temperature radio-chemical energy conversion processes

Patent ·
OSTI ID:7150519

This patent describes a radio-chemical method of converting radiated energy into chemical energy form comprising the steps of: (a) establishing a starting chemical compound in the liquid phase that chemically reacts endothermically to radiation and heat energy to produce a gaseous and a solid constituent of the compound, (b) irradiating the compound in its liquid phase free of solvents to chemically release therefrom in response to the radiation the gaseous and solid constituents, (c) physically separating the solid and gaseous phase constituents from the liquid, and (d) chemically processing the constituents to recover therefrom energy stored therein by the irradiation step (b).

Assignee:
Texas Gas Development Corp., Owensboro, KY
Patent Number(s):
US 4620907
OSTI ID:
7150519
Resource Relation:
Patent File Date: Filed date 5 Jun 1984
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English