期刊
ENERGY
卷 200, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2020.117593
关键词
Liquid-phase ion-stripping; Pressure retarded osmosis; Energy and exergy analyzes; Low temperature heat; Waste heat; Power generation
资金
- National Science Foundation, United States [1510826]
- Directorate For Engineering
- Div Of Chem, Bioeng, Env, & Transp Sys [1510826] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
In this work, a new concept to convert low temperature heat (<100 degrees C) into electrical power is proposed and theoretically studied. This concept integrates a unique Liquid-phase Ion-Stripping (LIS) process, which uses low temperature heat to generate a salinity gradient, and a pressure retarded osmosis (PRO) process, which converts the salinity gradient into power. The LIS process utilizes a kind of organic solvent to reject ions from a saline source when going through a thermal cycle, thus producing a concentrated brine stream and a fresh water stream. The PRO process then harvests the osmotic pressure from the two streams to produce power. The whole system is a closed loop with no working medium loss. The thermal and electrical energy consumption of the system is analyzed. The overall energy efficiency of the system can reach -3.1% when it operates between 40 and 80 degrees C, and this corresponds to an exergy efficiency of -27%. The energy and exergy efficiencies are found to increase with higher solvent extraction efficiency and heat recovery system efficiency. Engineering better solvents can potentially achieve energy and exergy efficiency respectively to 5.6% and 90%. (C) 2020 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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