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浮体船甲板上に設置した風車や甲板下の表層海水中に設置した水車などから得られる電気エネルギーを電力として海水の淡水化過程で得られる真水や排出される灌水の溶融塩電気分解で得られる水素発生金属あるいは海底鉱物などを生産・貯蔵・輸送システムに関する。 Obtained by molten salt electrolysis of fresh water or irrigation water discharged from seawater desalination process using electric energy obtained from windmills installed on floating ship decks or turbines installed in surface seawater under the deck The present invention relates to a system for producing, storing and transporting hydrogen generating metals or submarine minerals.
現在、エネルギー資源の大部分を占めているのは、石油、石炭、天然ガスなどの化石エネルギーであるが、エネルギー資源の大量消費により将来の枯渇化、およびそれら化石燃料の燃焼により発生する二酸化炭素による地球環境破壊が問題になり、京都議定書に見られるように炭素量削減が緊急課題となっている。 Currently, fossil energy such as oil, coal, and natural gas occupies most of energy resources, but carbon dioxide generated by the future depletion and combustion of these fossil fuels due to mass consumption of energy resources. As a result of the global environmental destruction caused by the problem, the reduction of carbon is an urgent issue as seen in the Kyoto Protocol.
この二酸化炭素などの環境影響物質を一切発生しない貯蔵可能なクリーンエネルギーとして水素が脚光を浴びている。しかし貯蔵にボンベが必要なことから、持ち運びが簡便なエネルギー源の開発が急がれ、その1つとして水素吸蔵合金の研究がある。これを別の視点から考えると、消費場所で必要なだけ水素を生成することも一案である。水素の発生で最も簡単なのは光触媒による水の電気分解であるが、発生量が少ない。その点水素発生金属としてのナトリウム、カルシウムあるいはカリウムなどは水を注ぐだけで、あるいはマグネシウムは熱水を注ぐといずれも大量に水素を発生し、爆発的に酸素と反応して燃焼する。高速増殖炉もんじゅの冷却材として使われている金属ナトリウム蒸気が漏洩し、これと水が反応して火災事故を起こしたことは記憶に新しい。さらに最近非特許文献1に示すように金属マグネシウムと熱水の反応により水素を生成させ、これを運動エネルギーに変換し、燃え滓の酸化マグネシウムは太陽励起レーザー光で還元したとする提案が東京工業大学矢部孝教授よりなされている。 Hydrogen is in the limelight as a storable clean energy that does not generate any environmental impact substances such as carbon dioxide. However, since a cylinder is necessary for storage, development of an energy source that is easy to carry is urgently needed, and one of them is research on hydrogen storage alloys. Considering this from a different point of view, it is also a proposal to generate as much hydrogen as necessary at the consumption place. The simplest hydrogen generation is the electrolysis of water using a photocatalyst, but the amount generated is small. At that point, sodium, calcium, potassium, etc. as hydrogen generating metals can be produced by simply pouring water, or magnesium, when hot water is poured, generate a large amount of hydrogen, explosively react with oxygen and burn. The metal sodium vapor used as a coolant for the fast breeder reactor Monju leaks, and this reacts with water to cause a fire accident. Furthermore, as shown in Non-Patent Document 1, Tokyo Kogyo proposes that hydrogen is generated by the reaction of metallic magnesium and hot water, which is converted into kinetic energy, and that the magnesium oxide in the fuel is reduced by solar excitation laser light. Made by Professor Takashi Yabe.
本発明はこれら水素発生金属が無尽蔵にある海水から風力や海流による流体エネルギーや太陽エネルギーなどの自然エネルギーを使って効率良く摂取しようとするものである。ただし太陽エネルギーの内、太陽電池は大電力を得るには効率が悪く、しかも洋上では受光面に食塩の結晶が付着するため保守が大変であることなどから本発明では太陽電池の使用は考えない。ここで水素発生金属とはナトリウム、マグネシウム、カルシウム、カリウムなどの水と激しく反応して水素を発生する卑金属を意味する。海水1kg中のナトリウム量は11.05g、マグネシウムは1.32g、カルシウムは0.422g、カリウムは0.416gと多く、非特許文献2のように、わが国におけるマグネシウム精錬はアルミニウムより1年早い昭和8年に開始され、その製造方法は海水による製塩の際の副産物の苦汁(含塩化マグネシウム水和物)を蒸発濃縮して得られる塩化マグネシウムを電気分解する方法であった。さらに特許文献1に示すように昭和8年(1933)酸化マグネシウムを塩素化して無水塩化物を作り、溶融塩電解法により金属マグネシウムを析出させる方法が昭和8年(1933)9月 東京工業大学教授加藤興五郎と立木健吉によって特許化されている。 The present invention intends to efficiently ingest these hydrogen-generating metals from seawater inexhaustible using natural energy such as fluid energy and solar energy by wind and ocean currents. However, of the solar energy, the solar cell is not efficient for obtaining a large amount of power, and on the ocean, the salt crystal adheres to the light receiving surface, so that maintenance is difficult. . Here, the hydrogen generating metal means a base metal that generates hydrogen by reacting violently with water such as sodium, magnesium, calcium, and potassium. The amount of sodium in 1 kg of seawater is 11.05 g, magnesium is 1.32 g, calcium is 0.422 g, potassium is 0.416 g, and as in Non-Patent Document 2, magnesium refining in Japan started in 1958, one year earlier than aluminum. The production method was a method of electrolyzing magnesium chloride obtained by evaporating and concentrating bitter juice (magnesium chloride-containing hydrate) as a by-product during salt production with seawater. Furthermore, as shown in Patent Document 1, in 1933 (Showa 8), a method of chlorinating magnesium oxide to make anhydrous chloride and precipitating magnesium metal by molten salt electrolysis was conducted in September 1933 (Professor of Tokyo Institute of Technology). Patented by Kogoro Kato and Kenkichi Tachiki.
高温で溶融した溶融塩はイオン導電により高い導電性を呈する。この溶融塩電解では、電解質水溶液の電気分解とは異なり、水が存在しないので水素の発生は無い。このため、水溶液では陰極析出が困難な金属でも単離することが出来る。さらに酸素との結合が強いマグネシウムやナトリウムあるいはアルミニウムなどは炭素還元による冶金は困難で、溶融塩電解法により製造されている。実用化に於いては、その導電率を出来るだけ高くし、反応は出来るだけ低い温度で行いたい。非特許文献3によるとナトリウムの融点は97.7℃、沸点は882.9℃であり、塩化ナトリウムの融点は801℃と高いが、水酸化ナトリウムの融点は318℃と低いため金属ナトリウムを得るには出発原料は水酸化ナトリウムを溶融塩電解するCastner法が経済的である。食塩を直接溶融塩電気分解するDowns法では反応温度を下げるため、塩化ナトリウム約60%に約40%の塩化カルシウムを混合して融点を600℃にしている。この方法によると析出ナトリウムには少量のカルシウムが含まれているので110℃まで冷却して両者を分離する。 The molten salt melted at a high temperature exhibits high conductivity due to ionic conduction. In this molten salt electrolysis, unlike the electrolysis of an aqueous electrolyte solution, there is no generation of hydrogen because there is no water. For this reason, even a metal that is difficult to be cathode-deposited in an aqueous solution can be isolated. Further, magnesium, sodium, aluminum, etc., which have a strong bond with oxygen, are difficult to metallurgically by carbon reduction, and are produced by a molten salt electrolysis method. In practical application, we want to make the conductivity as high as possible and to carry out the reaction at the lowest possible temperature. According to Non-Patent Document 3, the melting point of sodium is 97.7 ° C and the boiling point is 882.9 ° C. The melting point of sodium chloride is as high as 801 ° C, but the melting point of sodium hydroxide is as low as 318 ° C. The Castner method, in which sodium hydroxide is subjected to molten salt electrolysis, is economical. In the Downs method, in which salt is directly electrolyzed with molten salt, the reaction temperature is lowered, so that about 40% of sodium chloride is mixed with about 60% of sodium chloride to bring the melting point to 600 ° C. According to this method, since the precipitated sodium contains a small amount of calcium, it is cooled to 110 ° C. and separated from both.
マグネシウムの融点は648.8℃、沸点が1090℃であるのに対し、酸化マグネシウムの融点は2826℃、沸点は3600℃と高い。しかし塩化マグネシウムならば融点は714℃と酸化マグネシウムの4分の1である。然るに電解温度を低くすれば溶融塩電気分解に要する電力を節約できる。このためには塩化マグネシウムの高純度化が必要である。このため特許文献2に開示されるように、マグネシウムを製造する電解槽から塩化マグネシウム濃度が低下した電解浴塩に酸化マグネシウムや炭酸マグネシウム粉末を加え、これに塩化マグネシウムの電解によって生成した塩素ガスあるいは塩素と一酸化炭素の混合ガスまたはホスゲンなどと反応させ、電解浴塩を循環させて塩素化と電解を繰り返し行っている。酸化マグネシウムの融点を下げるために塩化マグネシウムを添加する例は特許文献3、4に開示されており、酸化マグネシウムをフッ化物塩電解質に入れて電解する方法は特許文献5に開示されている。溶融塩電気分解に使用する電力を軽減するために、金属塩化物中の不純物を除去する方法が特許文献6に、溶融塩電気分解電極の陽極及び陰極間にグラファイトで構成された隔膜を配置することが特許文献7に開示されている。 Magnesium has a melting point of 648.8 ° C. and a boiling point of 1090 ° C., whereas magnesium oxide has a high melting point of 2826 ° C. and a boiling point of 3600 ° C. However, the melting point of magnesium chloride is 714 ° C., which is a quarter of magnesium oxide. However, if the electrolysis temperature is lowered, the power required for molten salt electrolysis can be saved. For this purpose, it is necessary to increase the purity of magnesium chloride. For this reason, as disclosed in Patent Document 2, magnesium oxide or magnesium carbonate powder is added to an electrolytic bath salt having a reduced magnesium chloride concentration from an electrolytic tank for producing magnesium, and chlorine gas generated by electrolysis of magnesium chloride or Chlorination and electrolysis are repeated by reacting with a mixed gas of chlorine and carbon monoxide or phosgene and circulating an electrolytic bath salt. Examples of adding magnesium chloride to lower the melting point of magnesium oxide are disclosed in Patent Documents 3 and 4, and a method of electrolyzing magnesium oxide in a fluoride salt electrolyte is disclosed in Patent Document 5. In order to reduce the electric power used for molten salt electrolysis, a method for removing impurities in metal chloride is disclosed in Patent Document 6 in which a diaphragm made of graphite is disposed between an anode and a cathode of a molten salt electrolysis electrode. This is disclosed in Patent Document 7.
海水の淡水化については、海水から塩分を残して真水のみ取り出す、蒸発法、冷却法、溶媒抽出法、逆浸透法があり、逆に塩分を除去して淡水を残す電気透析法、イオン交換樹脂法がある。海水から塩分を残して生産する場合淡水1立方メートル生産当たりの電力消費量は、代表的蒸発法の多段フラッシュ蒸留法で63kWh、冷凍法で10.6kWhであるが、逆浸透法は0.69kWhとエネルギー消費量が他の方法に比べるきわめて少なく、さらに運転維持管理も容易である。 Regarding seawater desalination, there are evaporation method, cooling method, solvent extraction method, reverse osmosis method, leaving salt from seawater and removing only fresh water, conversely electrodialysis method, ion exchange resin that removes salt and leaves fresh water There is a law. In the case of producing salt from seawater, the power consumption per cubic meter of fresh water is 63 kWh in the multistage flash distillation method of the typical evaporation method and 10.6 kWh in the refrigeration method, but 0.69 kWh in the reverse osmosis method. Energy consumption is extremely small compared to other methods, and operation and maintenance are easy.
逆浸透法とは半透膜で仕切られた容器の一方に海水を、他方に真水を入れると、両方の溶液は塩分濃度が均一に成ろうとして真水が半透膜を通って海水側に移動する。この流れの圧力を浸透圧と言い、海水の浸透圧は約25kgf/cm2である。このとき、海水側に浸透圧以上の圧力が加えられると、海水側から半透膜を通して真水が押し出される。この原理を使って連続的に海水から真水が作られる。 In reverse osmosis, when seawater is put in one of the containers separated by a semipermeable membrane and fresh water is put in the other, fresh water moves to the seawater side through the semipermeable membrane to make the salinity of both solutions uniform. To do. The pressure of this flow is called osmotic pressure, and the osmotic pressure of seawater is about 25 kgf / cm 2. At this time, when a pressure higher than the osmotic pressure is applied to the seawater side, fresh water is pushed out from the seawater side through the semipermeable membrane. Using this principle, fresh water is continuously made from seawater.
逆浸透圧法により海水を淡水化するには25kgf/cm2以上の高い水圧を必要とする。そこで逆浸透モジュールを逆浸透圧以上の水深に沈め、淡水集水管に浸透した淡水を大気中に汲み上げる方法が特許文献8に開示されている。また逆浸透法による海水の淡水化を行うに先立ち海水を深度100メーター以上の海水層より取り込むことにより砂濾過処理や凝集剤注入を省略できることが特許文献9に開示している。 In order to desalinate seawater by the reverse osmotic pressure method, a high water pressure of 25 kgf / cm 2 or more is required. Therefore, Patent Document 8 discloses a method in which a reverse osmosis module is submerged in a water depth equal to or higher than a reverse osmosis pressure and fresh water permeated through a fresh water collecting pipe is pumped into the atmosphere. Patent Document 9 discloses that sand filtration treatment and flocculant injection can be omitted by taking seawater from a seawater layer having a depth of 100 meters or more prior to seawater desalination by reverse osmosis.
水深が200mより深くなると太陽光線は到達できず、気圧も20気圧以上と高い。この深さの水は海洋深層水といわれ、表層海水に比べて細菌も著しく少ない。このため深層水から得られた淡水は清浄性・熟成性・高ミネラル性を有することから食品・美容・医薬品などに利用される。 When the water depth is deeper than 200 m, the sunlight cannot reach and the atmospheric pressure is as high as 20 atmospheric pressure or higher. This depth of water is said to be deep ocean water, and there are significantly fewer bacteria than surface seawater. For this reason, fresh water obtained from deep water has cleanliness, maturity, and high minerality, and thus is used for food, beauty, medicine, and the like.
灌水を濃縮して、海水の量が10分の1以下になると塩化ナトリウムが結晶化して析出し始める。やがて量の少ない硫酸マグネシウム、塩化マグネシウム、塩化カリウムなどが結晶化する。海水を逆浸透膜法で濃縮した灌水には炭酸カルシウムの析出があるので、3.3%の海水は約6%でしか濃縮できない。一方イオン交換膜透析法では電気透析膜を使って20%まで濃縮できる。工業的にはこの電気透析膜を数千枚重ねて使う。このイオン交換膜透析法で海水を濃縮するのと蒸発濃縮法では析出結晶が少々異なる。硫酸マグネシウムはイオン交換膜透析法では析出しないが蒸発濃縮法では析出する。他方塩化カルシウムはイオン交換膜透析法では析出するが蒸発濃縮法では析出しない。 When irrigation is concentrated and the amount of seawater is less than 1/10, sodium chloride begins to crystallize and begin to precipitate. Eventually, small amounts of magnesium sulfate, magnesium chloride, potassium chloride, etc. crystallize. Since irrigation obtained by concentrating seawater by the reverse osmosis membrane method has precipitation of calcium carbonate, 3.3% seawater can be concentrated only at about 6%. On the other hand, ion exchange membrane dialysis can be concentrated to 20% using an electrodialysis membrane. Industrially, thousands of these electrodialysis membranes are used. Precipitated crystals are slightly different between the concentration of seawater by this ion exchange membrane dialysis method and the evaporation concentration method. Magnesium sulfate does not precipitate in the ion exchange membrane dialysis method, but precipitates in the evaporation concentration method. On the other hand, calcium chloride is precipitated by the ion exchange membrane dialysis method but not by the evaporation concentration method.
1994年発効した海洋法に関する国際連合条約によると、沿岸国は200海里(370km)までの海底および海底下を大陸棚とすることが出来るほか、海底の地形・地質が一定条件を満たせば、200海里の外側に大陸棚の設定することが出来る。この大陸棚を国連海洋法条約では排他的経済水域といい、水産資源や鉱物資源などの非生物資源の開発が出来る。水深2000m 内外に存在する熱水鉱床は亜鉛、銅、鉛、銀などを含む泥状の硫化物で、海底において熱水作用に伴い形成された多金属硫化物鉱床である。マンガンクラフトは、マンガン団塊が水深5000mの海底に存在しているのに対し、マンガンクラフトは水深1500mから2500m付近にあり、マンガンやコバルトの資源として有望である。 According to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which came into force in 1994, coastal states can use continental shelves up to 200 nautical miles (370 km) as long as the seabed topography and geology meet certain conditions. A continental shelf can be set outside the nautical mile. This continental shelf is called an exclusive economic zone in the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, and can develop non-living resources such as fishery resources and mineral resources. The hydrothermal deposits present inside and outside the depth of 2000 m are mud sulfides containing zinc, copper, lead, silver, etc., and are polymetallic sulfide deposits formed by hydrothermal action on the sea floor. Manganese craft is promising as a resource of manganese and cobalt, while manganese nodules are present on the seabed at a depth of 5000 m, whereas manganese craft is at a depth of 1500 to 2500 m.
海水の淡水化や水素発生金属の生産あるいは海底掘削には大電力が必要である。このため化石燃料を用いない自然エネルギーに頼ろうとする気運が高い。自然エネルギー発電には風力、水力(潮力)、波力、太陽電池、太陽熱などがあるが、この中でも風力は地表に対して垂直に設置できるため他の自然エネルギー発電設置に比べて設置面積が少なく、しかも昼夜問わず利用できる。この風力発電を利用して未処理水や海水を逆浸透プラントで処理するための圧力ポンプの電力に利用することが特許文献10,11に開示されている。同様に海水の淡水化を目的として海水の汲み上げポンプの電力に風力発電を使用することが特許文献12に開示されている。また海水の淡水化装置から得られた淡水を電気分解して水素を生産する電力として風力発電を利用することが特許文献13に開示されている。 High power is required for desalination of seawater, production of hydrogen-generating metals, or undersea drilling. For this reason, there is a high tendency to rely on natural energy that does not use fossil fuels. Natural energy power generation includes wind power, hydropower (tidal power), wave power, solar cells, solar heat, etc. Among them, wind power can be installed perpendicular to the ground surface, so it has a smaller installation area than other natural energy power generation installations. It can be used both day and night. Patent Documents 10 and 11 disclose that this wind power generation is used for electric power of a pressure pump for treating untreated water and seawater in a reverse osmosis plant. Similarly, Patent Document 12 discloses that wind power generation is used for power of a seawater pump for the purpose of desalination of seawater. Patent Document 13 discloses that wind power generation is used as electric power for electrolyzing fresh water obtained from seawater desalination equipment to produce hydrogen.
風力を直接動力源として用い海水の淡水化を行う試みもある。特許文献14には風車軸に空気圧縮機を連結し、圧縮空気タンクからの圧縮空気を海水に作用させて海水から真水を製造する浸透圧式海水淡水化装置が開示されている。また特許文献15には海水淡水化プラント用蒸発管に海水を送る手段として風力駆動式海水淡水化プラントが開示されている。 There are also attempts to desalinate seawater using wind power as a direct power source. Patent Document 14 discloses an osmotic seawater desalination apparatus in which an air compressor is connected to a wind turbine shaft, and compressed air from a compressed air tank acts on seawater to produce fresh water from seawater. Patent Document 15 discloses a wind-driven seawater desalination plant as means for sending seawater to an evaporation pipe for a seawater desalination plant.
風力発電で得られるエネルギー(W)は、受風面積(A)、空気密度(ρ)、風速(V)とすると W=AρV3/2 で与えられる。ここで空気の密度は1.2kg/m3に対し水の密度は1025kg/m3である。 このため風の流を水の流に代えれば854倍のエネルギーを得ることが出来る。日本周辺には黒潮(日本海流)と対馬海流があり、トカラ海峡、足摺岬、室戸岬、潮岬、三宅島・御蔵島を流れる黒潮は幅250km、水深1000m、流速0.3〜2m/秒であり格好の水流発電源と思われる。 Energy obtained by wind power (W) is swept area (A), air density ([rho), is given by When the wind speed (V) W = AρV 3/ 2. Here, the density of air is 1.2 kg / m3 and the density of water is 1025 kg / m3. For this reason, if the flow of wind is replaced with the flow of water, 854 times as much energy can be obtained. There are Kuroshio Current (Japan Current) and Tsushima Current around Japan. The Kuroshio Current flowing through Tokara Strait, Cape Ashizuri, Cape Muroto, Cape Shiono Cape, Miyakejima and Mikurajima is 250km wide, 1000m deep, and 0.3 to 2m / second in velocity. It seems to be a water stream power source.
上述した風力、流水力、太陽熱などの自然エネルギーは地球環境に優しく、かつ、資源の枯渇も起こさない格好なエネルギー源であるように思われがちで在るが、しかしこれらは全て自然的・地理的条件に制約され、気象条件や場所によっては所望の発電電力を得ることは困難である。そこで太陽エネルギーや風力エネルギーあるいは潮流など自然エネルギーが豊富に存在する洋上でそれらを利用する方法が提案されている。特許文献16では海上に浮遊設置されたプールに海洋深層水を汲み上げるために風力発電で得られた電力を使用することが開示されている。特許文献17には海水の電気分解による淡水化に風力発電を用いることが開示されている。特許文献18には海上に設置する大型浮体構造物の自然エネルギーを利用する発電設備として風力発電、波力発電、海洋温度差発電などが開示されている。移動可能な海上浮体上で太陽熱による蒸気タービン発電や波力発電、風力発電などで得られた電力により淡水化された水を電気分解して水素や酸素ガスを生産することが特許文献19、20に開示されている。洋上の浮遊あるいは浮体船の甲板に設置する風車は風向に関係ない無指向性が望ましい。本願発明者は風力や水力の両エネルギーから電力を取り出す垂直軸風水車を特許文献21、22に開示している。 Natural energy such as wind power, hydropower, and solar heat mentioned above tends to be a good energy source that is friendly to the global environment and does not cause resource depletion, but these are all natural and geographical It is difficult to obtain a desired generated power depending on weather conditions and places. Then, the method of utilizing them on the ocean where natural energy such as solar energy, wind energy or tidal current is abundant has been proposed. Patent Document 16 discloses that electric power obtained by wind power generation is used to pump deep ocean water into a pool suspended on the sea. Patent Document 17 discloses that wind power generation is used for desalination by electrolysis of seawater. Patent Document 18 discloses wind power generation, wave power generation, ocean temperature difference power generation, and the like as power generation equipment that uses natural energy of a large floating structure installed on the sea. Patent Documents 19 and 20 include producing hydrogen and oxygen gas by electrolyzing water desalinated by electric power obtained by steam turbine power generation, wave power generation, wind power generation, etc. by solar heat on a movable floating body. Is disclosed. Wind turbines installed on the surface of floating or floating ship decks are preferably omnidirectional regardless of the wind direction. The inventor of the present application discloses vertical axis wind turbines that extract electric power from both wind energy and hydraulic energy in Patent Documents 21 and 22.
上述した参考文献を統括すると自然的・地理的条件あるいは気象条件や場所に制約されない手法として洋上で所望の発電電力と原料を得る構成により、すべて自然エネルギーを利用しながら、効率良く海水の淡水化および金属の採取あるいは海底資源の採鉱を行うことを可能としている。 By integrating the above-mentioned references, seawater can be desalinated efficiently while using all natural energy, with a configuration that obtains the desired generated power and raw materials offshore as a method that is not restricted by natural or geographical conditions or weather conditions or locations. It is also possible to extract metals or mine seabed resources.
従来のエネルギー資源の調達は経済性の観点から資源の豊富な場所に限られ、それを消費地に如何に経済的に運搬するかが課題であった。しかし近代産業は度重なる資源の乱獲をもたらし、これに起因する資源の世界的枯渇は、資源高をもたらし、これによる資源供給国の台頭は国際社会で影響力を拡大し、しいては我が国など需要国を脅かすような資源大国が台頭して来ている。まさに資源ウオーズの始まりである。幸いにも我が国は4面を海に囲まれ、200海里の大陸棚の外周を考えると豊富な資源国に成り得る可能性を持っている。海底や海底地盤中の鉱物資源、海水に溶存する鉱物資源、海流・潮汐・海水の温度差などのエネルギー源、海中に生存する動植物、飲み水や工業用水も海洋資源である。これら無尽蔵にある海洋資源を化石燃料を使わず経済的に製造する事が本発明が解決しようとする課題である。 Conventional procurement of energy resources is limited to places where resources are abundant from the viewpoint of economy, and how to economically transport them to consumption areas has been a problem. However, modern industry has caused repeated over-exploitation of resources, and the resulting global depletion of resources has resulted in high resources, and the rise of resource-providing countries has increased its influence in the international community. Resource powers that threaten demanding countries are emerging. This is the very beginning of resource use. Fortunately, our country is surrounded by the sea, and considering the circumference of the continental shelf of 200 nautical miles, we have the potential to become an abundant resource country. Mineral resources in the seabed and seabed ground, mineral resources dissolved in seawater, energy sources such as ocean currents, tides, seawater temperature differences, animals and plants that live in the sea, drinking water and industrial water are also marine resources. The problem to be solved by the present invention is to economically manufacture these inexhaustible marine resources without using fossil fuels.
これまで海水の淡水化やナトリウムやマグネシウムなどの海水溶存金属の生産施設などは沿岸地域の火力発電所周辺に限られ、これら海水溶存金属はアルミニウム同様電力の化石と言われてきた。さらに石油掘削井戸のように洋上にプラットホームを建設する事はあったが、その開発に供給される莫大なエネルギーは石油に依存していた。ところが最近、洋上に豊富に在る太陽エネルギーや風力エネルギーを用いようとする提案がなされている。特許文献18には海上に設置する大型浮体構造物の発電設備として風力発電、波力発電、海洋温度差発電などの自然エネルギー利用が開示されている。特許文献19、20では太陽熱による蒸気タービン発電、波力発電、風力発電などで得られた電力により海水を淡水化した真水を電気分解して水素や酸素ガスを生産している。特許文献16では風力発電で得られた電力で海洋深層水を汲み上げている。風力発電を用いて海水の電気分解による淡水化が特許文献17に開示されている。しかし殆どが海水の淡水化止りで潅水の回収・濃縮・溶融塩電気分解による金属の製造、あるいは海底の鉱物資源の採鉱は試みられず、まして、それら製造物を船倉に貯蔵・陸に搬送および出航の際陸積みした使用済み金属酸化物を海上で溶融塩電気分解の排ガスを使って再生産する海洋資源エネルギー生産海洋工場システムについては皆無である。 Up to now, seawater desalination and production facilities for water-soluble metals such as sodium and magnesium have been limited to the vicinity of thermal power plants in coastal areas, and these water-soluble metals have been said to be fossil for electricity like aluminum. In addition, there was a platform built offshore like an oil drilling well, but the enormous energy supplied to its development depended on oil. Recently, however, proposals have been made to use solar and wind energy abundant on the ocean. Patent Document 18 discloses the use of natural energy such as wind power generation, wave power generation, and ocean temperature difference power generation as a power generation facility for a large floating structure installed on the sea. Patent Documents 19 and 20 produce hydrogen and oxygen gas by electrolyzing fresh water obtained by desalinating seawater with electric power obtained by steam turbine power generation, wave power generation, wind power generation, or the like by solar heat. In patent document 16, the deep sea water is pumped up with the electric power obtained by wind power generation. Patent Document 17 discloses desalination by electrolysis of seawater using wind power generation. However, most of the seawater is desalinated and no attempt is made to produce metal by irrigation recovery, concentration, or molten salt electrolysis, or mining of mineral resources on the seabed. There is no marine resource energy production marine factory system that recycles spent metal oxides loaded on departure from the sea using molten salt electrolysis exhaust gas.
本発明は上述した問題点に鑑みて創案されたものである。すなわち、本発明の目的は、海流、風力などの流体エネルギーによる大電力と集光された太陽熱などの自然エネルギーを効果的に用い水素発生金属の製造、真水の製造、液体酸素の製造、海底鉱物の採鉱などを行ない、それら生産物を寄港先で陸揚げし、陸地からは使用済み水素発生金属の酸化物や水酸化物を船積みし、これと海洋工場の廃棄ガスを用いて水素発生金属を再生産すること、あるいは海流発電から得られる豊富な電力を用いて陸積みされたボーキサイトとを溶融塩電気分解して金属アルミを製造する。これらの全ての仕事を行う海洋工場・貨物船として、あるいは現場に留まって生産を続ける母船として、生産・貯蔵・輸送時におけるエネルギーロスを低減し、かつ、システム全体の効率を向上させることができる海洋工場を提供することにある。 The present invention has been made in view of the above-described problems. That is, the object of the present invention is to produce hydrogen-generating metal, fresh water, liquid oxygen, seabed minerals by effectively using natural energy such as ocean current, wind energy or other fluid energy and concentrated solar heat. Mining, etc., landing these products at the port of call, loading oxides and hydroxides of used hydrogen generating metal from the land, and reusing the hydrogen generating metal using the waste gas from the marine factory. It produces metal aluminum by electrolyzing molten salt with bauxite that is built using abundant electric power obtained from ocean current power generation. As an offshore factory / cargo ship that performs all these tasks, or as a mother ship that continues production on the spot, it can reduce energy loss during production, storage, and transportation, and improve the efficiency of the entire system. To provide an offshore factory.
上記目的を達成するため、本発明の海洋資源エネルギー生産海洋工場は、大型双胴船または単胴船から成り、洋上の資源採取場所で大量の電力を流体エネルギーから得るために甲板上に無指向性垂直軸風車を複数台備え、生産しながら洋上を航行したり、資源摂取現場で浮遊したり、係留したりすることが出来る。とくに黒潮などの海流の流れを利用した海流発電を行う際には船を係留する。また海流発電を行う為には単胴船よりも複胴船が望ましく、双胴船の2つの船体を結合した甲板上部に無指向性垂直軸風車を複数台備え、甲板下部の表層海面下には海流発電用垂直軸水車を備することを特徴とする。 To achieve the above object, the marine resource energy production marine factory of the present invention consists of a large catamaran or monohull, and is omnidirectional on the deck to obtain a large amount of power from fluid energy at the offshore resource collection site. It has a number of vertical wind turbines that can be used to navigate the ocean while producing, float on the resource intake site, and moor. The ship is moored especially when performing ocean current power generation using ocean currents such as the Kuroshio Current. In order to perform ocean current power generation, a double hull is preferable to a single hull, and a plurality of omnidirectional vertical axis wind turbines are installed on the upper deck where two hulls of a catamaran are combined. Is characterized by a vertical axis turbine for ocean current power generation.
洋上で生産した電力を用いて海水を逆浸透法や蒸発法あるいは冷凍法などにより淡水化して真水を製造・貯蔵する手段と、廃液として出る潅水を電気透析法により濃縮灌水を生産し、これをナトリウム、マグネシウム、カルシウム、カリウムなどの水素発生金属を回収するための製造工程に送る。逆浸透膜法による海水の淡水化には海水の圧入ポンプ用電力が必要である以外は電力消費がないため最も経済的である。本発明では逆浸透膜を重ね巻きしたスパイラル型モジュールを使うのが望ましいが、流体エネルギーからの電力生産量が多くなれば多段フラッシュ蒸着法蒸発法や海水を冷却して氷を作り、その氷を融解して淡水を得る冷凍法などを併用する。あるいは海水が満たされた容器のガラス窓から太陽光を入射し、蒸発した水蒸気をリービッヒなどの冷却管熱を通して純水を製造する。冷却管の外管には淡水化のために汲み揚げた海水や深層水を通した後、淡水化装置に送水する。これらの淡水化により得られた真水は貯蔵し、濃縮灌水は水素発生金属の回収に供される。 Means for producing and storing fresh water by desalinating seawater using reverse osmosis, evaporation or refrigeration methods using electricity produced offshore, and producing concentrated irrigation by electrodialysis of irrigation discharged as waste liquid. Send to the production process to recover hydrogen generating metals such as sodium, magnesium, calcium and potassium. Seawater desalination by the reverse osmosis membrane method is the most economical because there is no power consumption except that it requires power for a seawater injection pump. In the present invention, it is desirable to use a spiral-type module in which reverse osmosis membranes are layered. However, if the amount of power generated from fluid energy increases, multistage flash evaporation method or seawater is cooled to make ice, Use a freezing method that melts to obtain fresh water. Alternatively, sunlight is incident from a glass window of a container filled with seawater, and pure water is produced by passing the evaporated water vapor through heat from a cooling pipe such as Liebig. The outer pipe of the cooling pipe is passed through the seawater and deep water pumped for desalination and then sent to the desalination equipment. The fresh water obtained by these desalinations is stored, and the concentrated irrigation is used to recover the hydrogen-generating metal.
逆浸透膜法による海水の淡水化には海水の圧入が必要であるが、これを深海で行えば水圧が高いため圧入ポンプを省略できる。特許文献18には逆浸透モジュールを逆浸透圧以上の水深に沈め、淡水集水管に浸透した淡水を大気中に汲み上げる方法が開示されている。本願発明では深層水層に逆浸透膜よりなる海水・真水・灌水の夫々の圧力センサーを着けたスパイラル型逆浸透膜モジュールを沈め、濃縮灌水と淡水を夫々別々に船上に揚水し、深層海水側への淡水の逆流を抑え、かつ淡水側および灌水側への浸透圧差を打ち消すための引圧を施すための吸引ポンプを備えることにより海底の水圧を利用し連続的に深層淡水と濃縮灌水を汲み揚げ、これらの水を船上の設備類の冷却や船室の冷房に流用した後、海洋深層水は貯蔵タンクに、灌水は熱濃縮工程に送り、ナトリウム、マグネシウム、カルシウム、カリウムなどの水素発生金属を回収するため供される。本願特許の目的は海水の淡水化と水素発生金属を取り出すことであるから、先ず海水の淡水化を行い排出された灌水を電気透析法すなわちイオン交換樹脂法でさらに濃縮し、濃度の高い潅水を得る方法を採用する。 In order to desalinate seawater by the reverse osmosis membrane method, it is necessary to inject seawater. However, if this is performed in the deep sea, the pressurization pump can be omitted because the water pressure is high. Patent Document 18 discloses a method in which a reverse osmosis module is submerged to a depth equal to or higher than a reverse osmosis pressure, and fresh water permeated through a fresh water collecting pipe is pumped into the atmosphere. In the present invention, a spiral type reverse osmosis membrane module with pressure sensors for seawater, fresh water and irrigation composed of reverse osmosis membranes in the deep water layer is submerged, and concentrated irrigation and fresh water are separately pumped on the ship, Concentrated deep water and concentrated irrigation are continuously drawn using the water pressure at the bottom of the sea by providing a suction pump for suppressing the backflow of fresh water to the seawater and applying a suction pressure to counteract the osmotic pressure difference between the freshwater side and the irrigation side. After deep-frying and diverting these waters to ship equipment cooling and cabin cooling, deep ocean water is sent to storage tanks, and irrigation is sent to the thermal concentration process, where hydrogen-generating metals such as sodium, magnesium, calcium, and potassium are added. Served for recovery. The purpose of this patent is to desalinate seawater and take out hydrogen-generating metals. First, desalinate the seawater and further concentrate the discharged irrigation by the electrodialysis method, that is, the ion exchange resin method. Adopt the method to get.
ナトリウム、マグネシウム、カルシウム、カリウムなどの水素発生金属の内、ナトリウム、カルシウム、カリウムは水と激しく反応し、水素を発生する。しかしマグネシウムだけは水とは反応せず、熱水とのみ反応する。ところが水銀と反応させてマグネシウムアマルガムにすると水と激しく反応して水素を発生する。この性質を利用して、水を入れた金属マグネシウムに少量のマグネシウムアマルガムを投入するか、金属マグネシウムと少量のマグネシウムアマルガムの混合物に水を滴下すると水と激しく反応して水素を発生する。この理由はマグネシウムの酸化力が強いためマグネシウム表面の酸化皮膜が水の保護膜として働くためである。他方水銀化合物の使用は環境問題を引きお越しかねない。そこで水銀を使わない方法として、水の中に金属マグネシウムに傷をつけることにより冷水とも激しく反応して水素を発生するためマグネシウムを水素発生金属として使うことが出来る。これにより最も水と激しく反応するナトリウムは大規模発電施設の水素発生源あるいは原子力発電におけるウランの代替燃料として、マグネシウムは小規模発電施設や動力源として使用することが出来る。 Among hydrogen generating metals such as sodium, magnesium, calcium and potassium, sodium, calcium and potassium react violently with water to generate hydrogen. However, magnesium alone does not react with water, only with hot water. However, when it reacts with mercury to make magnesium amalgam, it reacts violently with water to generate hydrogen. Utilizing this property, when a small amount of magnesium amalgam is added to metallic magnesium containing water, or when water is dropped into a mixture of metallic magnesium and a small amount of magnesium amalgam, hydrogen reacts violently to generate hydrogen. The reason for this is that since the oxidizing power of magnesium is strong, the oxide film on the surface of magnesium works as a protective film for water. On the other hand, the use of mercury compounds can lead to environmental problems. Therefore, as a method not using mercury, magnesium can be used as a hydrogen-generating metal because hydrogen is generated by reacting violently with cold water by scratching metallic magnesium in water. As a result, sodium that reacts most strongly with water can be used as a hydrogen generation source for large-scale power generation facilities or as an alternative fuel for uranium in nuclear power generation, and magnesium can be used as a small-scale power generation facility or power source.
海水の淡水化によって排出された濃縮灌水は水素発生金属の宝庫である。この濃縮灌水を煎ごうするために流体エネルギーによって得られた電力や溶融塩電気分解装置から発生した熱あるいは集光された太陽光によって結晶塩を析出させる。この結晶化する温度を利用して夫々の結晶塩を分別する。分別された結晶塩は夫々流体エネルギーから得られた大電力を用いて溶融塩電気分解を行い、陰極に水素発生金属を、陽極に塩素ガスを発生させる。そして水素発生金属のうちナトリウムやカリウムは石油の中に、他のマグネシウム、カルシウムなどは乾燥大気中で保管する。廃ガスとして発生する塩素は使用済み水素発生金属酸化物の塩素化に供される。 Concentrated irrigation discharged from seawater desalination is a treasure trove of hydrogen-generating metals. In order to roast this concentrated irrigation, the crystalline salt is deposited by the electric power obtained by the fluid energy, the heat generated from the molten salt electrolyzer or the concentrated sunlight. Each crystal salt is fractionated using this crystallization temperature. The separated crystalline salts are subjected to molten salt electrolysis using a large electric power obtained from fluid energy to generate a hydrogen generating metal at the cathode and chlorine gas at the anode. Of the hydrogen generating metals, sodium and potassium are stored in petroleum, and other magnesium and calcium are stored in a dry atmosphere. Chlorine generated as waste gas is used for chlorination of used hydrogen-generating metal oxides.
船積みされた使用済み酸化ナトリウムや酸化マグネシウムあるいは水酸化マグネシウムは溶融塩電気分解を行い易くするために塩化物にする必要がある。金属塩化物にするには塩化水素ガスとの反応が簡便である。そこで、塩化水素は塩素ガスと水素ガスを反応させて生成する。塩素ガスは溶融塩電気分解の廃ガスを利用し、水素は海水の淡水化によって得られた真水を電気分解する。この真水の電気分解で得られたもう一方の酸素ガスは圧縮して液体酸素として容器に保存する。ここで生産された塩化ナトリウムや塩化マグネシウムは溶融電気分解の原料として再利用される。ここで使用済み水酸化ナトリウムの融点は塩化ナトリウムよりも低いので、水酸化ナトリウムはそのまま溶融塩電気分解を行うことが出来る。 Used sodium oxide, magnesium oxide, or magnesium hydroxide that is shipped needs to be converted to chloride in order to facilitate molten salt electrolysis. The reaction with hydrogen chloride gas is convenient for forming a metal chloride. Therefore, hydrogen chloride is generated by reacting chlorine gas and hydrogen gas. Chlorine gas uses molten salt electrolysis waste gas, and hydrogen electrolyzes fresh water obtained by desalination of seawater. The other oxygen gas obtained by electrolysis of fresh water is compressed and stored in a container as liquid oxygen. The sodium chloride and magnesium chloride produced here are reused as raw materials for melt electrolysis. Here, since the melting point of used sodium hydroxide is lower than that of sodium chloride, sodium hydroxide can be directly subjected to molten salt electrolysis.
イオン化傾向が強い金属はそれよりもイオン化傾向が弱い金属の酸化物を還元することが出来る。そこで船積みされた使用済み酸化マグネシウムは洋上工場で食塩の溶融塩電気分解で得られた金属ナトリウムを使ってマグネシウム酸化物を還元して金属マグネシウムを生産し、酸化されたナトリウム酸化物は、同じく海洋工場で生産した塩化水素と反応させて塩化ナトリウムを作り、これを溶融塩電気分解して金属ナトリウムを生産する事が出来る。 A metal having a strong ionization tendency can reduce an oxide of a metal having a weak ionization tendency. The used magnesium oxide that was shipped there was reduced to magnesium oxide by using metal sodium obtained by molten salt electrolysis of salt at an offshore factory to produce metal magnesium. It can react with hydrogen chloride produced in the factory to make sodium chloride, which can be electrolyzed with molten salt to produce metallic sodium.
溶融塩電気分解に必要な電力は莫大である。しかしその殆どが金属塩化物を溶融するために使われ、電気化学に関わる電子の移行による還元に使われる量は比較的少ない。そこで本発明では溶融塩電気分解に太陽熱と電力の両方を用いる。太陽光は1m2当たり1kWである。そこで本発明では集光された太陽光を入射するためのガラス窓を有する溶融塩電気分解槽を備え、灌水の太陽熱による濃縮と蒸留水の製造を行う第1工程と、濃縮された卑金属塩化物を集光された太陽熱で溶融し、同時に電気分解する溶融塩電気分解をおこなう第2工程とを同時に行なう。第1工程では太陽光を入射するガラス窓と灌水とを密着させ、灌水を太陽熱によって蒸発させ、リービッヒなどの冷却管を通過させることにより純水を製造する。同時に灌水は太陽光の照射時間の経過に連れて濃度は高く成り、塩化ナトリウムが析出し、上澄み液として塩化マグネシウムを多量に含有する苦汁を取り出す。この塩化ナトリウム結晶と苦汁を別々に第2工程の溶融電気分解槽に移し、集光された太陽光を照射して熱溶融された夫々の金属塩化物結晶に電流を流し溶融塩電気分解を行う。ここで太陽光の集光には本願発明者が特許文献23に開示するように非球面鏡の製作法あるいは特許文献24に開示する両凹トロイダル鏡で矩形面状に集光するためのミラーを用いる。 The power required for molten salt electrolysis is enormous. However, most of them are used to melt metal chlorides, and the amount used for reduction by transfer of electrons involved in electrochemistry is relatively small. Therefore, in the present invention, both solar heat and electric power are used for molten salt electrolysis. Sunlight is 1 kW per square meter. Therefore, in the present invention, a molten salt electrolysis tank having a glass window for incident condensed sunlight is provided, the first step of concentration by solar heat of irrigation and production of distilled water, and concentrated base metal chloride The second step of performing molten salt electrolysis is performed at the same time. In the first step, pure water is produced by bringing a glass window through which sunlight is incident into contact with irrigation, evaporating the irrigation by solar heat, and passing it through a cooling pipe such as Liebig. At the same time, the concentration of irrigation increases with the passage of sunlight, sodium chloride is deposited, and bitter juice containing a large amount of magnesium chloride is taken out as a supernatant. The sodium chloride crystals and the bitter juice are separately transferred to the melting electrolysis tank in the second step, and the molten salt electrolysis is performed by passing an electric current through each of the metal chloride crystals thermally melted by irradiating condensed sunlight. . Here, in order to condense sunlight, the present inventor uses a manufacturing method of an aspherical mirror as disclosed in Patent Document 23 or a mirror for condensing a rectangular surface with a biconcave toroidal mirror disclosed in Patent Document 24. .
深海の採鉱には海底で無人ブルドーザーやシャベルーを動かし、かつ、船上まで鉱物を持ち上げるための大電力が必要である。そこで海流発電を主体とした流体エネルギー発電により得られた電力により海底地盤中のマンガンやコバルトを含むマンガン団塊やマンガンクラスとあるいは海底熱水鉱床中に存在する亜鉛、銅、鉛、銀などの泥状硫化物などの鉱物資源を採鉱することが出来る。 Deep-sea mining requires high power to move unmanned bulldozers and shovels on the seabed and to lift minerals on board. Therefore, mud such as zinc, copper, lead, silver, etc. present in manganese nodules and manganese classes containing manganese and cobalt in the submarine ground or in submarine hydrothermal deposits by the electric power obtained by fluid energy power generation, mainly ocean current power generation. Mineral resources such as sulfides can be mined.
したがって、本発明は海洋に溶存する鉱物資源や海底鉱物資源を自然エネルギーを効果的に用いて、採取現場の船上で水素発生金属の製造、真水の製造、液体酸素の製造、海底鉱物の採鉱などを行い、それら生産物を寄港先で陸揚げし、陸地からは使用済み水素発生金属の酸化物や水酸化物を船積みし、これと海洋工場の排出ガスの塩素を用いて水素発生金属を再生産することにより、生産・貯蔵・輸送時におけるエネルギーロスを低減することが出来、この結果、システム全体のエネルギー効率の向上を図ることができる。 Therefore, the present invention effectively uses mineral resources and marine mineral resources dissolved in the ocean to produce hydrogen-generating metals, fresh water, liquid oxygen, mining marine minerals, etc. The products are landed at the port of call, and oxides and hydroxides of used hydrogen-generating metal are loaded from the land, and the hydrogen-generated metal is regenerated using chlorine from the exhaust gas of the marine factory. By doing so, energy loss during production, storage, and transportation can be reduced, and as a result, the energy efficiency of the entire system can be improved.
上記したように、本発明によれば、海洋資源を採取現場の洋上で自然エネルギーを効果的に使い、水素発生金属の製造、真水の製造、液体酸素の製造、海底鉱物の採鉱と貯蔵などを無駄なく行い、生産品の貯蔵・輸送時のエネルギーロスを低減することができ、かつシステム全体の効率を向上させることができる等の優れた効果が得られる。 As described above, according to the present invention, natural resources are effectively used offshore at the site where marine resources are collected, producing hydrogen generating metals, producing fresh water, producing liquid oxygen, mining and storing submarine minerals, etc. It is possible to obtain an excellent effect such that it can be performed without waste, energy loss during storage and transportation of the product can be reduced, and the efficiency of the entire system can be improved.
以下、本発明の効果的な実施の形態を図1〜図7に基づいて詳細に説明する。なお、各図において同一部分には同一符号を付している。 Hereinafter, an effective embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. In the drawings, the same parts are denoted by the same reference numerals.
図1は、本発明の実施形態の概略構成図である。この図に示すように、本願発明の海洋資源エネルギー生産海洋工場は、洋上に浮かぶ浮体船1に、流体エネルギーを利用して発電を行う風力発電手段2および海流発電手段3または太陽熱エネルギー集熱手段4と、海水を逆浸透法や蒸発法などにより淡水化して真水を製造する手段5と、真水を貯蔵する手段6と、得られた真水を電気分解して水素を生成する手段7と、真水の電気分解により発生した酸素を液化する手段8と、淡水化の廃液としての灌水をイオン交換膜透析する電気透析手段9と、太陽熱あるいは電熱または溶融塩電気分解により発生する熱で濃縮する煎ごう手段10と、せんごうされた灌水に溶存するナトリウム、マグネシウム、カルシウム、カリウムなどの塩化物を分離後溶融塩電気分解する手段11と、陸地で船積みされた使用済み卑金属酸化物や水酸化物を格納する手段12と、溶融塩電気分解で生成した塩素を真水の電気分解で得られた水素と反応させて塩化水素を製造する手段13と、得られた塩化水素と使用済み酸化マグネシウムや水酸化マグネシウムあるいは使用済み過酸化ナトリウムと反応させて塩化物を作り、これを溶融塩電気分解する手段11に戻し溶融塩電気分解することにより廃ガス塩素の有効利用を行う。陸積された使用済み水酸化ナトリウムはそのまま溶融塩電気分解に供する。そして溶融塩電気分解手段11で生産した水素発生金属類を貯蔵する貯蔵手段14と、マンガンやコバルトを含むマンガン団塊やマンガンクラストあるいは海底熱水鉱床中の亜鉛、銅、鉛、銀などの泥状硫化物などを海底採鉱する手段15と、これら硫化物を貯蔵する手段16と、海洋深層水から淡水及び灌水を採取するためにスパイラル型逆浸透膜モジュール17を深層水層に沈め、分別された灌水と淡水を夫々別々に洋上から揚水し、海底の水圧を利用し連続的に深層淡水や灌水を汲み揚げ、これらの水を船上の設備類の冷却や船室の冷房に使用した後、海洋深層水を貯蔵する手段6と、灌水をイオン交換膜透析する電気透析手段9に送り、海洋資源を陸地18で積み降ろしすることを特徴とする海洋資源エネルギー生産海洋工場である。 FIG. 1 is a schematic configuration diagram of an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in this figure, the marine resource energy production marine factory of the present invention has a wind power generating means 2 and an ocean current power generating means 3 or a solar thermal energy collecting means for generating electricity using fluid energy on a floating ship 1 floating on the ocean. 4, means 5 for producing fresh water by desalinating seawater by reverse osmosis or evaporation, means 6 for storing fresh water, means 7 for electrolyzing the obtained fresh water to produce hydrogen, fresh water Means 8 for liquefying oxygen generated by electrolysis, electrodialysis means 9 for dialysis of irrigation water as wastewater for desalination, and decoction concentrated with solar heat, electric heat or heat generated by molten salt electrolysis Means 10, means 11 for separating chlorides such as sodium, magnesium, calcium, potassium, etc. dissolved in the irrigated water, and electrolyzing the molten salt, and shipping on land Means 12 for storing used base metal oxides and hydroxides, means 13 for producing hydrogen chloride by reacting chlorine produced by molten salt electrolysis with hydrogen obtained by electrolysis of fresh water, and The resulting hydrogen chloride reacts with used magnesium oxide, magnesium hydroxide or used sodium peroxide to form a chloride, which is returned to the means 11 for electrolyzing the molten salt, and the molten salt is electrolyzed to produce waste gas chlorine. Make effective use. Used sodium hydroxide on land is directly used for molten salt electrolysis. And the storage means 14 which stores the hydrogen generating metals produced by the molten salt electrolysis means 11, and the mud such as zinc, copper, lead and silver in manganese nodules, manganese crusts or submarine hydrothermal deposits containing manganese and cobalt Means 15 for seabed mining sulfide and the like, means 16 for storing these sulfides, and spiral reverse osmosis membrane module 17 were submerged in the deep water layer and separated to collect fresh water and irrigation from the deep sea water. After irrigation and fresh water are separately pumped from the ocean, deep sea water and irrigation are continuously pumped using the water pressure at the bottom of the sea, and these waters are used to cool the equipment on the ship and to cool the cabin. It is a marine resource energy production marine factory characterized by sending water to means 6 for storing water and electrodialysis means 9 for irrigating ion exchange membrane dialysis, and loading and unloading marine resources on land 18.
本発明の海洋資源エネルギー生産海洋工場は、図1の浮体船1はタンカーなどの単胴船や双胴船を意味し、航行や浮遊しながら、あるいは係留して真水や水素発生金属を生産することが出来る。図2は流体エネルギー発電用風車と水車の配置を説明するための双胴船の中央横断面図であり、図3は双胴船の甲板下の表層水の流れと水車の位置を説明するための中央側面図である。双胴体船左19と双胴体船右20を2艘平行に並べ、2艇の間を甲板21,25で固定してあるため揺れが少なく、安定性が高く、かつ、甲板を広く取れるため海洋工場の製造施設や太陽炉あるいは風車を備すことが出来る。しかも係留された双胴船は海流30に沿って位置するため、2つの胴体船19,20の間は海流が整流されているため造波抵抗が少ない。さらに水車24の受水面積を大きくするために水車の垂直方向の長さを喫水線23から竜骨26あるいは内竜骨の位置まで長くしてある。そして、夫々の胴体船19,20の喫水線23より下部の竜骨26あるいはそれより上部の内竜骨と垂直に複数の細長い流線型状の鰭(水中翼)27で2つの胴体船19,20を固定している。そして甲板下部25と細長い流線型状の鰭(水中翼)27とには軸受け29で上下を支え、水車24のシャフト28が海流から変形加重を受けてたわまないよう設計している。この細長い流線型状の鰭(水中翼)27は船首部から船尾部まで一定間隔を置いて複数本並べ、かつ、1本の細長い流線型状の鰭(水中翼)27上にも複数台の水車を稼動させる。またこの細長い流線型状の鰭(水中翼)27は船の安定翼としてあるいは船の浮上効果も高い。このように洋上の資源採取場所で大量の電力を流体エネルギーから得ることが出来る。とくに黒潮などの海流の流れを利用した海流発電を行う際には船を係留する。また海流発電を行う為には単胴船よりも双胴船が望ましい。 In the marine resource energy production offshore factory of the present invention, the floating ship 1 in FIG. 1 means a monohull or catamaran such as a tanker, and produces fresh water or hydrogen-generating metal while navigating, floating, or moored. I can do it. FIG. 2 is a central cross-sectional view of a catamaran for explaining the arrangement of fluid energy power generation wind turbines and turbines, and FIG. 3 is for explaining the surface water flow and the position of the turbines under the catamaran deck. FIG. The catamaran ship left 19 and catamaran ship right 20 are arranged in two parallel lines, and the two boats are fixed by decks 21 and 25, so there is little shaking, high stability, and a wide deck can be taken off the ocean. It can be equipped with factory manufacturing facilities, solar furnaces or windmills. Moreover, since the moored catamaran is located along the ocean current 30, the ocean current is rectified between the two trunk vessels 19, 20, so that the wave resistance is low. Further, in order to increase the water receiving area of the water wheel 24, the vertical length of the water wheel is extended from the water line 23 to the position of the keel 26 or the inner keel. Then, the two fuselage ships 19 and 20 are fixed by a plurality of slender streamline-shaped rods (hydrofoils) 27 perpendicular to the keel 26 below the water line 23 of each fuselage ship 19 and 20 or the inner keel above it. ing. The lower part 25 of the deck and the slender streamlined ridge (hydrofoil) 27 are supported by bearings 29 so that the shaft 28 of the water turbine 24 is not deformed by the sea current. A plurality of the slender streamline-shaped dredgers (hydrofoils) 27 are arranged at regular intervals from the bow part to the stern part, and a plurality of turbines are also provided on one slender streamlined dredger (hydrofoil) 27. Make it work. In addition, the elongated streamline-shaped kite (hydrofoil) 27 is highly effective as a stable wing of a ship or as a ship. In this way, a large amount of power can be obtained from fluid energy at a resource collection site on the ocean. The ship is moored especially when performing ocean current power generation using ocean currents such as the Kuroshio Current. A catamaran is preferable to a monohull for ocean current power generation.
風車22による風力発電2や水車24による黒潮などの流体発電3などの流体エネルギーから生産した電力を用いて海水を逆浸透法や蒸発法あるいは冷凍法などによる淡水化装置5を用いて真水6を製造・貯蔵する手段と、廃液として出る潅水を電気透析法9により濃縮する。本発明では塩濃度3.3%の海水を逆浸透膜を用いて淡水化しているが、排出される灌水濃度は自然海水の1.7倍の5.8%と低い。しかし、本発明では真水の生産も重要課題であるので、先ず海水を淡水化するために逆浸透膜法による海水の淡水化を行う。この逆浸透膜法は海水の圧入ポンプ用電力が必要である以外は電力消費がないため最も経済的である。そこで逆浸透膜を重ね巻きしたスパイラル型モジュールを使うが、流体エネルギーからの電力生産量が多くなれば多段フラッシュ蒸発法や海水を冷却して氷を作り、その氷を融解して淡水を得る冷凍法などを併用することも出来る。そしてこの淡水化装置から排出される灌水をイオン交換透析装置(電気透析)9により、塩濃度を20%にする。この20%の濃度にした後、風力発電2や海流発電によって得られた電力あるいは溶融塩電気分解で排出される熱を使って煎ごう装置10で濃縮する。塩化ナトリウムの飽和溶解度は26%であるから、先ず塩化ナトリウムが結晶として析出するから、これを溶融塩電気分解装置11に移し、残りの苦汁をさらに煎ごう10で濃縮し、生成した結晶をマグネシウム用溶融塩電気分解装置11に移す。ここで消費する電力はナトリウムの場合は約7ボルト、9.5アンペアを流し、1トン当たり10600kWhである。マグネシウムの場合は約7ボルト、6.5アンペア流し、1トン当たり10000kWhである。これらの電力は風力発電や海流発電で賄う。風車1基当たり5,000kWとすると1日10時間稼動で50,000kW、水車1基当り50,000kWである。 Fresh water 6 is produced using desalination equipment 5 by reverse osmosis, evaporation or refrigeration using seawater generated from fluid energy such as wind power generation 2 by the windmill 22 and fluid power generation 3 such as the Kuroshio by the watermill 24. The means for production and storage and the irrigation water as waste liquid are concentrated by electrodialysis method 9. In the present invention, seawater having a salt concentration of 3.3% is desalinated using a reverse osmosis membrane, but the discharged irrigation concentration is as low as 5.8%, 1.7 times that of natural seawater. However, since production of fresh water is also an important issue in the present invention, seawater is first desalted by the reverse osmosis membrane method in order to desalinate the seawater. This reverse osmosis membrane method is the most economical because it consumes no electric power except that it requires power for a seawater injection pump. So we use a spiral-type module with reverse osmosis membranes, but if the amount of power generated from fluid energy increases, the multistage flash evaporation method or seawater is cooled to make ice, and the ice is melted to obtain fresh water. Laws can be used in combination. The irrigation discharged from the desalination apparatus is adjusted to a salt concentration of 20% by an ion exchange dialysis apparatus (electrodialysis) 9. After the concentration of 20%, the electric power obtained by wind power generation 2 or ocean current power generation or the heat discharged by molten salt electrolysis is used to concentrate in the roasting device 10. Since the saturated solubility of sodium chloride is 26%, sodium chloride is first precipitated as crystals. This is transferred to the molten salt electrolysis apparatus 11, and the remaining bitter juice is further concentrated in the decoction 10, and the produced crystals are converted to magnesium. To the molten salt electrolysis apparatus 11. The power consumed here is about 7 volts, 9.5 amperes in the case of sodium and 10600 kWh per ton. In the case of magnesium, about 7 volts, 6.5 amperes flow, and 10,000 kWh per ton. These powers are supplied by wind power and ocean current power. Assuming 5,000 kW per wind turbine, it is 50,000 kW when operated 10 hours a day, and 50,000 kW per turbine.
溶融塩電気分解に必要な電力はその殆どが金属塩化物を溶融するために使われ、電気化学に関わる電子の移行による還元に使われる量は比較的少ない。そこで本発明では溶融塩電気分解に太陽熱と電力の両方を用いる。太陽光は1m2当たり1kWである。そこで本発明では図4に示すように曲面ガラス板31(メニスカスレンズ)2枚を凹面側を向かい合わせ、あるいはメニスカスレンズ31の凹面と平板ガラスを向かい合わせ、その中に灌水32を満たして構成した水レンズ34に太陽光35を入射し、集光された高密度光36は濃縮灌水あるいは煎ごうした卑金属の塩化物38が入った溶融塩電気分解槽37に照射され、太陽熱により卑金属の塩化物を熱溶融すると同時に両電極間に直流を流し陰極に卑金属を、陽極に塩素ガスを発生させる。ここで水レンズとして供された灌水は熱せられ、純水と濃縮灌水を製造する。この濃縮灌水を灌水出口33から溶融塩電気分解槽37に注ぐことにより、卑金属の電気分解に供する。ここで集光された太陽光で熱溶融された夫々の金属塩化物結晶に電流を流し溶融塩電気分解を行う。ここで太陽光の集光には本願発明者が特許文献23に開示するように非球面鏡の製作法あるいは特許文献24に開示する両凹トロイダル鏡で矩形面状に集光するためのミラーを用いる。またこの凹ガラス板31は本発明者による特許文献23に開示してあるように高温炉の中で凹面状に削られた耐熱煉瓦の上に平面ガラスを載せて造られた。 Most of the electric power required for molten salt electrolysis is used to melt metal chlorides, and the amount used for reduction by transfer of electrons involved in electrochemistry is relatively small. Therefore, in the present invention, both solar heat and electric power are used for molten salt electrolysis. Sunlight is 1 kW per square meter. Therefore, in the present invention, as shown in FIG. 4, two curved glass plates 31 (meniscus lenses) face each other on the concave side, or the concave surface of the meniscus lens 31 faces the flat glass, and the irrigation 32 is filled therein. Sunlight 35 is incident on the water lens 34, and the condensed high-density light 36 is irradiated to a molten salt electrolysis tank 37 containing concentrated irrigated or roasted base metal chloride 38, and the base metal chloride is irradiated by solar heat. At the same time, a direct current is passed between both electrodes to generate base metal at the cathode and chlorine gas at the anode. Here, the irrigation served as a water lens is heated to produce pure water and concentrated irrigation. By pouring this concentrated irrigation into the molten salt electrolysis tank 37 from the irrigation outlet 33, it is subjected to base metal electrolysis. The molten salt electrolysis is performed by passing an electric current through each metal chloride crystal melted by the condensed sunlight. Here, in order to condense sunlight, the present inventor uses a manufacturing method of an aspherical mirror as disclosed in Patent Document 23 or a mirror for condensing a rectangular surface with a biconcave toroidal mirror disclosed in Patent Document 24. . The concave glass plate 31 was made by placing flat glass on a heat-resistant brick cut into a concave shape in a high-temperature furnace as disclosed in Patent Document 23 by the present inventor.
太陽光集光はミラーでも出来る。そこで図5に示すように樽型(トロイダル型)2重管40と内管41との間に潅水32を注入し、石英ガラスパイプ製の内管41の中に卑金属の塩化物42を入れる。ここで凹面トロイダル鏡39に入射された太陽光線35は集光されながら樽型(トロイダル型)2重管40の中に満たされている灌水を加熱し、さらに集光されて石英ガラスパイプ製の溶融塩電気分解槽41の中の卑金属塩化物結晶42を溶融する。この溶融塩電気分解槽41は太陽熱により卑金属の塩化物を熱溶融すると同時に両電極間に直流を流し陰極に卑金属を陽極に塩素ガスを発生させる。ここで樽型(トロイダル型)2重管40と内管41との間の潅水32は熱せられ、純水と濃縮灌水を製造する。この濃縮灌水を灌水出口33から溶融塩電気分解槽41に注ぐことにより、卑金属の電気分解に供する。ここで集光された太陽光(高密度光)36で熱溶融された夫々の金属塩化物結晶に電流を流し溶融塩電気分解を行う。ここで樽型(トロイダル型)2重管40をトロイダル形状にした理由は入射太陽光を垂直に入射窓に入れることにより入射窓での反射ロスを少なくするためである。ここで太陽光の集光には本願発明者が特許文献24に開示する両凹トロイダル鏡39を用いる。またこの凹面トロイダル鏡39は本発明者による特許文献23に開示してあるように高温炉の中でトロイダル面状に削られた耐熱煉瓦の上に平面ガラスを載せて造られた。 Sunlight can be collected with a mirror. Therefore, as shown in FIG. 5, irrigation water 32 is injected between the barrel-type (toroidal-type) double tube 40 and the inner tube 41, and a base metal chloride 42 is put into the inner tube 41 made of quartz glass pipe. Here, the sunlight 35 incident on the concave toroidal mirror 39 is condensed to heat the irrigation filled in the barrel-shaped (toroidal) double tube 40, and is further condensed to be made of quartz glass pipe. The base metal chloride crystal 42 in the molten salt electrolysis tank 41 is melted. The molten salt electrolysis tank 41 heats and melts a base metal chloride by solar heat, and at the same time, a direct current flows between both electrodes to generate chlorine gas at the cathode and the base metal as the anode. Here, the irrigation 32 between the barrel-type (toroidal-type) double pipe 40 and the inner pipe 41 is heated to produce pure water and concentrated irrigation. By pouring this concentrated irrigation into the molten salt electrolysis tank 41 from the irrigation outlet 33, it is subjected to base metal electrolysis. The molten salt electrolysis is performed by passing an electric current through each metal chloride crystal thermally melted by the sunlight (high-density light) 36 collected here. Here, the reason why the barrel-shaped (toroidal) double tube 40 is formed in a toroidal shape is to reduce the reflection loss at the incident window by putting incident sunlight vertically into the incident window. Here, for condensing sunlight, a biconcave toroidal mirror 39 disclosed by the present inventor in Patent Document 24 is used. The concave toroidal mirror 39 was made by placing flat glass on a heat-resistant brick cut into a toroidal surface in a high temperature furnace as disclosed in Patent Document 23 by the present inventor.
円筒型ミラー(2軸法物面鏡)43を用い太陽を自動追尾する装置を図6に示す。樽型(トロイダル型)2重管40と石英ガラス製内管(溶融塩電解槽)41との間に潅水32を注入し、石英ガラスパイプ製の内管(溶融塩電解槽)41の中に卑金属の塩化物42を入れる。ここでカセグレーンタイプ2軸法物面鏡43に入射された太陽光線35は線集光されながら凸凹トロイダル鏡44で反射した後矩形ビームに変形され、2軸法物面鏡43の中央部のビーム通過用窓47を通過した後、樽型(トロイダル型)2重管40の中に満たされている灌水32を加熱し、さらに集光された太陽光は石英ガラスパイプ製の溶融塩電気分解槽41の中の卑金属塩化物結晶42を溶融する。この溶融塩電気分解槽41は太陽熱により卑金属の塩化物42を熱溶融すると同時に両電極間に直流を流し陰極に卑金属を陽極に塩素ガスを発生させる。ここで樽型(トロイダル型)2重管40と内管41との間の潅水32は熱せられ、純水と濃縮灌水を製造する。この濃縮灌水を灌水出口33から溶融塩電気分解槽41に注ぐことにより、卑金属塩化物の溶融塩電気分解に供する。ここで集光された太陽光(高密度光)36で熱溶融された夫々の金属塩化物結晶に電流を流し溶融塩電気分解を行う。ここで凸凹トロイダル鏡44の煽り角調整装置45、46でX−Y方向に調整することにより太陽の方向に自動追尾することが出来る。ここで太陽光の集光には本願発明者が特許文献23に開示する2軸法物面鏡43で矩形面状に集光するためのミラーを、特許文献24に開示する凸凹トロイダル鏡44を用いる。またこの凸凹トロイダル鏡44および2軸法物面鏡43は本発明者による特許文献23に開示してあるように高温炉の中でトロイダル面状に削られた耐熱煉瓦の上に平面ガラスを載せて造られた。 An apparatus for automatically tracking the sun using a cylindrical mirror (biaxial normal surface mirror) 43 is shown in FIG. Irrigation water 32 is injected between a barrel-shaped (toroidal) double tube 40 and a quartz glass inner tube (molten salt electrolyzer) 41, and the quartz glass pipe inner tube (molten salt electrolyzer) 41 is injected into the inner tube (molten salt electrolyzer) 41. Add base metal chloride 42. Here, the sunlight ray 35 incident on the Kasegrain type biaxial normal mirror 43 is reflected by the uneven toroidal mirror 44 while being focused, and then transformed into a rectangular beam. After passing through the beam passage window 47, the irrigation 32 filled in the barrel (toroidal) double tube 40 is heated, and the condensed sunlight is fused salt electrolysis made of quartz glass pipe. The base metal chloride crystal 42 in the tank 41 is melted. The molten salt electrolysis tank 41 heats and melts the base metal chloride 42 by solar heat, and at the same time, a direct current is passed between both electrodes to generate base metal and chlorine gas at the anode. Here, the irrigation 32 between the barrel-type (toroidal-type) double pipe 40 and the inner pipe 41 is heated to produce pure water and concentrated irrigation. By pouring this concentrated irrigation from the irrigation outlet 33 to the molten salt electrolysis tank 41, it is subjected to molten salt electrolysis of base metal chloride. The molten salt electrolysis is performed by passing an electric current through each metal chloride crystal thermally melted by the sunlight (high-density light) 36 collected here. Here, by adjusting the tilt angle adjusting devices 45 and 46 of the uneven toroidal mirror 44 in the XY direction, automatic tracking in the sun direction can be performed. Here, for condensing sunlight, the inventor of the present application uses a biaxial normal surface mirror 43 disclosed in Patent Document 23 to collect a mirror in a rectangular shape, and uses a concave and convex toroidal mirror 44 disclosed in Patent Document 24. Use. Further, as disclosed in Patent Document 23 by the present inventor, the uneven and uneven toroidal mirror 44 and the biaxial method surface mirror 43 are formed by placing a flat glass on a heat-resistant brick cut into a toroidal surface in a high temperature furnace. Was built.
凹トロイダルミラー39を用い太陽を自動追尾する装置を図7に示す。石英ガラス製円筒型2重管48と石英ガラス製内管(溶融塩電解槽)41との間に潅水32を注入し、石英ガラスパイプ製の内管(溶融塩電解槽)41の中に卑金属の塩化物42を入れる。ここでカセグレーンタイプ凹トロイダルミラー39に入射された太陽光線35は線集光されながら凸凸トロイダル鏡49で反射した後平行矩形ビームに変形され、凹トロイダルミラー39の中央部にビーム通過用窓47を通過した後、円筒型2重管48と内管41との間に満たされている灌水32を加熱し、さらに集光されて円筒石英ガラスパイプ製の溶融塩電気分解槽41の中の卑金属塩化物結晶42を溶融する。この溶融塩電気分解槽41は太陽熱(高密度光)36により卑金属の塩化物42を熱溶融すると同時に両電極間に直流を流し陰極に卑金属を陽極に塩素ガスを発生させる。ここで円筒型2重管48と内管41との間の潅水32は熱せられ、純水と濃縮灌水を製造する。この濃縮灌水を灌水出口33から溶融塩電気分解槽41に注ぐことにより、卑金属の電気分解に供する。ここで集光された太陽光で熱溶融された夫々の金属塩化物結晶に電流を流し溶融塩電気分解を行う。ここで凸凸トロイダル鏡49の煽り角調整装置45、46でX−Y方向に調整することにより太陽の方向に自動追尾することが出来る。ここで太陽光の集光には本願発明者が特許文献24に開示する凹トロイダル鏡39および凸凸トロイダル鏡49を用いる。またこの凹トロイダル鏡39および凸凸トロイダル鏡49は本発明者による特許文献23に開示してあるように高温炉の中でトロイダル面状に削られた耐熱煉瓦の上に平面ガラスを載せて造られた。 An apparatus for automatically tracking the sun using the concave toroidal mirror 39 is shown in FIG. The irrigation water 32 is injected between the quartz glass cylindrical double pipe 48 and the quartz glass inner pipe (molten salt electrolysis tank) 41, and the base metal in the quartz glass pipe inner pipe (molten salt electrolysis tank) 41 is injected. Of chloride 42. Here, the sunlight ray 35 incident on the Cassegrain type concave toroidal mirror 39 is reflected by the convex-convex toroidal mirror 49 while being focused, and then transformed into a parallel rectangular beam. A beam passing window is formed at the center of the concave toroidal mirror 39. After passing through 47, the irrigation water 32 filled between the cylindrical double pipe 48 and the inner pipe 41 is heated, and is further condensed and stored in the molten salt electrolysis tank 41 made of a cylindrical quartz glass pipe. Base metal chloride crystals 42 are melted. The molten salt electrolysis tank 41 heats and melts the base metal chloride 42 by solar heat (high-density light) 36 and simultaneously causes a direct current to flow between both electrodes to generate chlorine gas at the cathode and the base metal as the anode. Here, the irrigation 32 between the cylindrical double pipe 48 and the inner pipe 41 is heated to produce pure water and concentrated irrigation. By pouring this concentrated irrigation into the molten salt electrolysis tank 41 from the irrigation outlet 33, it is subjected to base metal electrolysis. The molten salt electrolysis is performed by passing an electric current through each metal chloride crystal melted by the condensed sunlight. Here, by adjusting the tilt angle adjusting devices 45 and 46 of the convex-convex toroidal mirror 49 in the XY direction, automatic tracking in the sun direction can be performed. Here, for condensing sunlight, the inventor of the present application uses a concave toroidal mirror 39 and a convex-convex toroidal mirror 49 disclosed in Patent Document 24. The concave toroidal mirror 39 and the convex-convex toroidal mirror 49 are constructed by placing flat glass on a heat-resistant brick that has been cut into a toroidal surface in a high temperature furnace as disclosed in Patent Document 23 by the present inventor. It was.
逆浸透膜法による海水の淡水化には高々25kgf/cm2の圧入が必要であるが、これを深海で行えば水圧が高いため圧入ポンプを省略できる。図1に示すように本願発明では水深250メートル深層水層に耐圧容器に入れた逆浸透膜よりなるスパイラル型逆浸透膜モジュール17を1セットを沈め、海水・真水・灌水の夫々の圧力をコンピューター制御しながら濃縮灌水と淡水を夫々別々に船上に揚水し、深層海水側への淡水の逆流を抑え、かつ淡水側および灌水側への浸透圧差を打ち消すための引圧を施すための吸引ポンプを備えることにより海底の水圧を利用し連続的に深層淡水と濃縮灌水を汲み揚げ、これらの水を船上の設備類の冷却や船室の冷房に流用する。その後、海洋深層水は貯蔵タンク6に、灌水はイオン交換樹脂法(電気透析)9でさらに濃縮し、煎ごう10の後溶融塩電解11工程に送る。 For desalination of seawater by the reverse osmosis membrane method, a pressure of 25 kgf / cm2 is required at most, but if this is performed in the deep sea, the pressure is high and the pressure pump can be omitted. As shown in FIG. 1, in the present invention, a set of spiral type reverse osmosis membrane modules 17 made of a reverse osmosis membrane placed in a pressure vessel is submerged in a 250 m deep water layer, and the pressure of each of seawater, fresh water and irrigation is calculated by a computer. Concentrated irrigation and fresh water are pumped separately on the ship under control, and a suction pump is used to reduce the reverse flow of fresh water to the deep seawater side and to apply a suction pressure to counteract the osmotic pressure difference between the fresh water side and the irrigation side. By preparing, deep sea water and concentrated irrigation are pumped up continuously using the water pressure at the bottom of the sea, and these waters are diverted for cooling equipment on the ship and cooling the cabin. Thereafter, the deep sea water is further concentrated in the storage tank 6 and the irrigation is further concentrated by the ion exchange resin method (electrodialysis) 9 and sent to the post-molten salt electrolysis 11 step after the brewing pot 10.
図1の溶融塩電気分解11で製造したナトリウム、マグネシウム、カルシウム、カリウムなどの水素発生金属14の内、ナトリウム、カルシウム、カリウムは水と激しく反応し、水素を発生する。しかしマグネシウムだけは水とは反応せず、熱水とのみ反応する。この理由はマグネシウムの酸化力が強いためマグネシウム表面の酸化皮膜が水の保護膜として働くためである。そこで水の中に金属マグネシウム塊や屑を入れ、塊や屑同士に強い圧力を掛けたり、引っ張り破断させるたり、傷をつけたり、レンズで集光したレーザー光や太陽光を照射して、酸化膜をアブレーションすると金属マグネシウムの保護膜が破れ冷水とも激しく反応して水素を発生させることが可能に成った。 Of the hydrogen generating metals 14 such as sodium, magnesium, calcium, and potassium produced by the molten salt electrolysis 11 of FIG. 1, sodium, calcium, and potassium react vigorously with water to generate hydrogen. However, magnesium alone does not react with water, only with hot water. The reason for this is that since the oxidizing power of magnesium is strong, the oxide film on the surface of magnesium works as a protective film for water. So, put magnesium magnesium lumps and debris in the water, apply strong pressure between the lumps and debris, pull and break, scratch, and irradiate the laser light and sunlight collected by the lens, and the oxide film After ablation, the protective film of metallic magnesium was broken, and it became possible to react with cold water and generate hydrogen.
図1に示すように陸地で水素発生金属として使われた使用済みの酸化物や水酸化物12は海洋資源エネルギー生産海洋工場の溶融塩電気分解11で排ガスとして出る塩素ガスを有効利用するため、浮体船1の倉庫が空であるため、海洋では再生のためのエネルギーとして風力発電2や海流発電3から得られる電力や太陽熱4が豊富なためなどの理由で港18から船積みする。使用済み酸化ナトリウムや酸化マグネシウムあるいは水酸化マグネシウム12は溶融塩電気分解11を行い易くするために塩化物にする必要がある。卑金属酸化物を塩化するために塩素ガスで直接反応させることも出来るが、この場合炭素が必要となる。この炭素は一酸化炭素や二酸化炭素を発生させるため地球温暖化の原因に成る。そこで炭素を使わない方法として、塩化水素ガス13を用いる。塩化水素13は塩素ガスと水素ガスを反応させて生成する。塩素ガスは溶融塩電気分解11の廃ガスを利用し、水素は海水の淡水化によって得られた真水を電気分解7で生成したものを使う。この真水の電気分解で得られたもう一方の酸素ガスは圧縮して液体酸素8として容器に保存する。ここで生産された塩化ナトリウムや塩化マグネシウムは溶融電気分解11の原料として再利用される。ここで水酸化ナトリウムの融点は318℃と塩化ナトリウムの融点801℃よりも著しく低いので、水酸化ナトリウムはそのまま溶融塩電気分解を行う。洋上工場には海流発電3から得られた豊富な電力と塩化ナトリウムの溶融塩電気分解11から生産した金属ナトリウムが金属マグネシウムの約8倍生産される。そこで船積みされた使用済み酸化マグネシウム12は洋上工場で食塩の溶融塩電気分解11で得られた金属ナトリウムを使ってマグネシウム酸化物を還元して金属マグネシウムを生産し、酸化されたナトリウム酸化物は、同じく海洋工場で生産した塩化水素13と反応させて塩化ナトリウムを作り、これを溶融塩電気分解11して金属ナトリウムを生産する事が出来る。 As shown in FIG. 1, the used oxides and hydroxides 12 used as hydrogen-generating metals on land are used effectively for the chlorine gas generated as the exhaust gas in the molten salt electrolysis 11 of the marine resource energy production marine factory. Since the warehouse of the floating ship 1 is empty, the ocean is loaded from the port 18 because of the abundance of wind power generation 2 and ocean current power generation 3 and solar heat 4 as energy for regeneration. Spent sodium oxide, magnesium oxide or magnesium hydroxide 12 needs to be converted to chloride to facilitate the molten salt electrolysis 11. In order to salify the base metal oxide, it can be reacted directly with chlorine gas, but in this case, carbon is required. This carbon causes global warming because it generates carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide. Therefore, hydrogen chloride gas 13 is used as a method not using carbon. Hydrogen chloride 13 is generated by reacting chlorine gas and hydrogen gas. Chlorine gas uses the waste gas of molten salt electrolysis 11 and hydrogen uses fresh water obtained by desalination of seawater generated by electrolysis 7. The other oxygen gas obtained by the electrolysis of fresh water is compressed and stored as liquid oxygen 8 in a container. The sodium chloride and magnesium chloride produced here are reused as raw materials for the molten electrolysis 11. Here, the melting point of sodium hydroxide is 318 ° C., which is significantly lower than the melting point of sodium chloride 801 ° C., so sodium hydroxide is directly subjected to molten salt electrolysis. The offshore factory produces about eight times as much metal magnesium as the metal power produced from the abundant electric power obtained from ocean current power generation 3 and molten salt electrolysis 11 of sodium chloride. Therefore, the used magnesium oxide 12 that was shipped was reduced to magnesium oxide by using metal sodium obtained in the molten salt electrolysis 11 of salt at an offshore factory to produce metal magnesium, and the oxidized sodium oxide was Similarly, sodium chloride can be produced by reacting with hydrogen chloride 13 produced at the offshore factory, and this can be produced by electrolysis 11 of molten salt to produce metallic sodium.
大陸棚に横たわる熱水鉱床の中には亜鉛、銅、鉛、銀など金属資源が泥状硫化物として存在する。また近海の海底地盤中にはマンガンやコバルトを含むマンガン団塊やマンガンクラストなどが海底層に堆積しているため、削岩機やダイナマイトなどで採掘するのでは無く無人ブルドーザーやシャベルーで拾い上げると言う表現が適切であると考える。この深海での海底採鉱15と船上まで鉱物を持ち上げるためのには大電力が必要である。そこで風力発電2や海流発電3などから得られる電力を用い、鉱物資源を船上格納庫16に保管する。この電力として特に海流発電3が有効である。 In hydrothermal deposits lying on the continental shelf, metal resources such as zinc, copper, lead and silver exist as mud sulfides. In addition, manganese nodules and manganese crusts containing manganese and cobalt accumulate in the seabed in the seabed near the sea, so it is said that they are picked up by an unmanned bulldozer or shovel instead of being mined by a rock drill or dynamite. Is considered appropriate. A large amount of electric power is required to lift the mineral up to the seabed mining 15 and the ship. Therefore, the mineral resources are stored in the shipboard storage 16 using electric power obtained from the wind power generation 2 or the ocean current power generation 3. The ocean current power generation 3 is particularly effective as this power.
以上説明したように、本発明によれば、海洋に溶存する鉱物資源や海底鉱物資源を自然エネルギーの有効利用により、採取現場の船上で水素発生金属としての卑金属の製造、真水の製造、液体酸素の製造、海底鉱物の採鉱などを行い、それら生産物を寄港先で陸揚げし、陸地からは使用済み水素発生金属の酸化物や水酸化物を船積みし、これと海洋工場の排出ガスを用いて水素発生金属を再生産することにより、生産・貯蔵・輸送時におけるエネルギーロスを低減することが出来ることは勿論のこと、システム全体のエネルギー効率の向上をも図ることができる。 As described above, according to the present invention, the production of base metal as a hydrogen-generating metal, the production of fresh water, the production of liquid oxygen on the ship at the sampling site by the effective use of natural energy for mineral resources and marine mineral resources dissolved in the ocean. Production of seabed minerals, landing of seabed minerals, etc., landing these products at the port of call, loading oxides and hydroxides of used hydrogen-generating metals from the land, and using this and the exhaust gas from offshore factories By regenerating the hydrogen-generating metal, not only energy loss during production, storage and transportation can be reduced, but also energy efficiency of the entire system can be improved.
本願発明によれば、海洋資源採取現場の船上で、その場生産した風力や海流から得た豊富な電力あるいは太陽熱などの自然エネルギーから、ナトリウムやマグネシウムなどの水素発生金属、あるいは真水や液体酸素などを製造し、それら生産物を寄港先で陸揚げし、陸地からは使用済み水素発生金属の酸化物を船積みし、海上で再生産することにより、生産・貯蔵・輸送時におけるエネルギーロスを無くし、システム全体の効率を向上させることができる。このことは資源の世界的枯渇と資源高をもたらし、これに伴う資源供給国の台頭が国際社会に影響力を拡大させている現況を沈静化するに留まらず、無尽蔵にあるクリーンな海洋資源を化石燃料を使わず経済的に製造する事は、4面を海に囲まれる我が国の産業に取って重要な手段である。
According to the present invention, on a ship at a marine resource collection site, from abundant electric power obtained from wind power generated in situ or ocean current or natural energy such as solar heat, hydrogen generating metal such as sodium or magnesium, fresh water or liquid oxygen, etc. The product is landed at the port of call, the spent hydrogen-generating metal oxide is loaded from the land, and remanufactured at sea, eliminating energy loss during production, storage and transportation. Overall efficiency can be improved. This has led to a global depletion of resources and high resources, and the rise of resource-providing countries that accompanies this has not only calmed the current situation that is expanding its influence on the international community, but also the inexhaustible clean marine resources. Producing economically without using fossil fuels is an important measure for Japanese industries surrounded by the sea.
1 浮体船
2 風力発電手段
3 流体発電手段
4 太陽熱集光手段
5 淡水化装置
6 真水貯蔵手段
7 水の電気分解装置
8 液体酸素貯蔵手段
9 電気透析手段
10 煎ごう(灌水濃縮)手段
11 溶融塩電気分解装置
12 使用済み貴金属酸化物倉庫
13 塩化水素製造施設
14 水素発生金属(卑金属)貯蔵倉庫
15 海底採鉱手段
16 海底鉱物資源格納倉庫
17 海洋深層水逆浸透膜モジュール
18 陸地(港)
19 双胴船体左
20 双胴船体右
21 双胴船甲板上部
22 風車(垂直軸風車)
23 喫水線
24 水車(垂直軸水車)
25 双胴船甲板下部
26 竜骨
27 鰭(水中翼)
28 シャフト
29 軸受け
30 水流
31 曲面ガラス板(メニスカスレンズ)
32 灌水入り口
33 灌水出口
34 水レンズ
35 太陽光線
36 高密度光
37 溶融塩電解槽
38 卑金属塩化物
39 凹トロイダル鏡
40 樽型(凸トロイダル)溶融塩電気分解装置
41 石英ガラス製溶融塩電解槽
42 卑金属塩化物
43 2軸法物面鏡(円筒型ミラー)
44 凸凹トロイダル鏡
45 煽り(太陽光自動追尾・垂直軸)
46 煽り(太陽光自動追尾・水平軸)
47 高密度太陽光取り出し口(カセグレーン鏡型)
48 円筒型溶融塩電気分解装置
49 凸凸トロイダル鏡
1 Floating ship 2 Wind power generation means
3 Fluid power generation means 4 Solar heat collecting means 5 Desalination device 6 Fresh water storage means 7 Water electrolysis device 8 Liquid oxygen storage means 9 Electrodialysis means 10 Roasting (irrigation concentration) means 11 Molten salt electrolysis apparatus 12 Used precious metal Oxide warehouse 13 Hydrogen chloride production facility 14 Hydrogen generating metal (base metal) storage warehouse 15 Seabed mining means 16 Seabed mineral resource storage warehouse 17 Deep sea water reverse osmosis membrane module 18 Land (port)
19 Catamaran hull left 20 Catamaran hull right 21 Catamaran upper deck 22 Windmill (vertical axis windmill)
23 water line 24 water wheel (vertical axis water wheel)
25 Catamaran Lower Deck 26 Keel 27 Spear (Hydrowing)
28 Shaft 29 Bearing 30 Water flow 31 Curved glass plate (meniscus lens)
32 Irrigation inlet 33 Irrigation outlet 34 Water lens 35 Sunlight 36 High density light 37 Molten salt electrolyzer 38 Base metal chloride 39 Concave toroidal mirror 40 Barrel (convex toroidal) molten salt electrolyzer 41 Molten salt electrolyzer 42 made of quartz glass Base metal chloride 43 2-axis normal mirror (cylindrical mirror)
44 Convex and concave toroidal mirror 45 Sag (automatic solar tracking, vertical axis)
46 Amber (automatic solar tracking, horizontal axis)
47 High-density sunlight outlet (Cassegrain mirror type)
48 Cylindrical molten salt electrolysis device 49 Convex-convex toroidal mirror
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The power obtained by the fluid energy power generation according to claim 1 or 2, such as manganese nodules and manganese classes containing manganese and cobalt in the submarine ground or zinc, copper, lead, silver, etc. present in the submarine hydrothermal deposit The marine resource energy extraction / production marine factory according to claim 1, comprising means for mining mineral resources such as mud sulfide.
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