Thermodynamic reversibility analysis of electrokinetic energy conversion in nanofluidic channels

Nanoscale and Microscale Thermophysical Engineering

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 75-94

  Chein, Reiyu ^a   Liao, Chencheng ^a   Chen, Hongjie ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Debye length; Electric double layer (EDL) overlap; Electrokinetic electric power generation; Electrokinetic pumping; Thermodynamic efficiency

Indexed keywords

DEBYE LENGTH; ELECTRIC DOUBLE LAYER; ELECTROKINETIC; ELECTROKINETIC ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; ELECTROKINETIC PUMPING; THERMODYNAMIC EFFICIENCY;

ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; ELECTRIC POWER GENERATION; ELECTRIC POWER SUPPLIES TO APPARATUS; ELECTRICITY; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; ELECTRODYNAMICS; ENERGY CONVERSION; NANOFLUIDICS; NAVIER STOKES EQUATIONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PUMPS; THERMODYNAMICS;

ELECTRIC GENERATORS;

EID: 77953523386     PISSN: 15567265     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15567261003601797     Document Type: Article

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