Process

• Main Authors: Robert Jeffrey Coleman, Jorge Manuel Caramelo Soares, Peter Geoffrey Gray, Angus Dickinson, David Edward Barnwell
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 23.11.2016
• Subjects: APPARATUS THEREFOR; BASIC ELECTRIC ELEMENTS; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROLYTIC OR ELECTROPHORETIC PROCESSES; ELECTROLYTIC OR ELECTROPHORETIC PROCESSES FOR THE PRODUCTIONOF COMPOUNDS OR NON-METALS; METALLURGY; PROCESSES OR MEANS, e.g. BATTERIES, FOR THE DIRECT CONVERSIONOF CHEMICAL INTO ELECTRICAL ENERGY

A process for the manufacture of a reinforced membrane-seal assembly, said process comprising the steps of: (i) providing a carrier material; (ii) providing a planar reinforcing component having one or more first regions comprising pores and a second region comprising pores, the first regions being patches and non-continuous and the second region surrounding the first regions and being continuous; (iii) depositing an ion-conducting component; (iv) drying the ion-conducting component; (v) depositing a seal component; (vi) drying the seal component (vii) removing the carrier material; wherein ion-conducting component fills the pores in the first regions and seal component fills the pores in the second region and wherein steps (ii), (iii) and (v) can be carried out in any order, wherein step (iv) is carried out subsequent to step (iii) and wherein step (vi) is carried out subsequent to step (v) and wherein steps (iv) and (vi) are carried out subsequent to step (ii) is disclosed. Also disclosed is a reinforced membrane-seal assembly prepared by the process of the invention.