Batteries for Efficient Energy Extraction from a Water Salinity Difference
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ArticleKAUST Grant Number
KUS-11-001-12KUS-I1-003-13
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2011-04-13Permanent link to this record
http://hdl.handle.net/10754/597646
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The salinity difference between seawater and river water is a renewable source of enormous entropic energy, but extracting it efficiently as a form of useful energy remains a challenge. Here we demonstrate a device called "mixing entropy battery", which can extract and store it as useful electrochemical energy. The battery, containing a Na2-xMn 5O10 nanorod electrode, was shown to extract energy from real seawater and river water and can be applied to a variety of salt waters. We demonstrated energy extraction efficiencies of up to 74%. Considering the flow rate of river water into oceans as the limiting factor, the renewable energy production could potentially reach 2 TW, or ∼13% of the current world energy consumption. The mixing entropy battery is simple to fabricate and could contribute significantly to renewable energy in the future. © 2011 American Chemical Society.Citation
La Mantia F, Pasta M, Deshazer HD, Logan BE, Cui Y (2011) Batteries for Efficient Energy Extraction from a Water Salinity Difference. Nano Lett 11: 1810–1813. Available: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/nl200500s.Sponsors
The work is partially supported by King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) under awards KUS-11-001-12 and KUS-I1-003-13 and by the Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering, under contract DE-AC02-76SF0051, through the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory LDRD project.Publisher
American Chemical Society (ACS)Journal
Nano LettersPubMed ID
21413685ae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1021/nl200500s
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