Modeling pressure-retarded osmotic power in commercial length membranes

Renewable Energy

Volumn 76, Issue , 2015, Pages 619-627

  Naguib, Maged Fouad ^a   Maisonneuve, Jonathan ^b   Laflamme, Claude B ^c   Pillay, Pragasen ^b  

^a ROCKWELL AUTOMATION   (Canada)

^b Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^c HYDRO QUÉBEC   (Canada)

Author keywords

Concentration polarization; Pressure retarded osmosis; Renewable energy; Salinity gradient power

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OSMOSIS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

AXIAL VARIATIONS; CHEMICAL POTENTIAL DIFFERENCE; CONCENTRATION POLARIZATION; ELECTRICAL ENERGY; PRESSURE-RETARDED OSMOSIS; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; SALINITY GRADIENT POWER; SEMI-PERMEABLE MEMBRANES;

POLARIZATION;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ELECTRICITY GENERATION; GRADIENT ANALYSIS; MEMBRANE; NUMERICAL MODEL; OSMOSIS; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PERMEABILITY; POLARIZATION; SALINITY; SIMULATION;

EID: 84916908828     PISSN: 09601481     EISSN: 18790682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.renene.2014.11.048     Document Type: Article

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