Electrical power from sea and river water by reverse electrodialysis: A first step from the laboratory to a real power plant

Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 23, 2010, Pages 9207-9212

  Veerman, Joost ^a,b   Saakes, Michel ^a   Metz, Sybrand J ^a   Harmsen, G Jan ^c  

^a EUROPEAN CENTRE OF EXCELLENCE FOR SUSTAINABLE WATER TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b NHL STENDEN UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE MEMBRANES; ANION EXCHANGE MEMBRANE; CATION EXCHANGE MEMBRANES; CELL DIMENSIONS; CO-CURRENT FLOW; ELECTRICAL POWER; ELECTRICAL RESISTANCES; FLOW PATH; HYDRODYNAMIC DESIGN; HYDRODYNAMIC LOSS; KEY PERFORMANCE PARAMETERS; LOW PRESSURES; POWER DENSITIES; POWER OUT PUT; PRESSURE DIFFERENCES; REAL POWER PLANTS; RESIDENCE TIME; RIVER WATER; SEGMENTED ELECTRODES; SINGLE CELLS; THIN MEMBRANE;

ELECTRODIALYSIS; FLUID DYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; INERTIAL CONFINEMENT FUSION; MEMBRANES; POWER PLANT LABORATORIES; RIVERS;

SEAWATER;

RIVER WATER;

ELECTRICAL POWER; ELECTRODE; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYDROELECTRIC POWER PLANT; LABORATORY METHOD; MEMBRANE; OSMOSIS; RIVER WATER; SALINITY; SEAWATER;

ANION EXCHANGE; ARTICLE; CATION EXCHANGE; DENSITY; ELECTRIC POWER PLANT; ELECTRIC RESISTANCE; ELECTRICITY; ELECTRODE; ELECTRODIALYSIS; HYDRODYNAMICS; HYPOBARISM; LABORATORY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PARAMETER; SALINITY; SEA; WATER FLOW;

DIALYSIS; ELECTRICITY; ELECTRODES; ENERGY-GENERATING RESOURCES; HYDRODYNAMICS; LABORATORIES; POWER PLANTS; RIVERS; SALINITY; SEAWATER;

EID: 78650255755     PISSN: 0013936X     EISSN: 15205851     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/es1009345     Document Type: Article

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