Scale-up characteristics of membrane-based salinity-gradient power production

Journal of Membrane Science

Volumn 476, Issue , 2015, Pages 311-320

  Feinberg, Benjamin J ^a   Ramon, Guy Z ^b   Hoek, Eric M V ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA NANOSYSTEMS INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Pressure retarded osmosis; Renewable energy; Reverse electrodialysis; Salinity gradient power

Indexed keywords

EXTRAPOLATION; HYDRAULIC MACHINERY; MASS TRANSFER; MIXING; OSMOSIS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT;

EXTERNAL MASS TRANSFER; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MAXIMUM POWER DENSITY; PRESSURE-RETARDED OSMOSIS; RENEWABLE ENERGIES; REVERSE ELECTRODIALYSIS; SALINITY GRADIENT POWER; THERMODYNAMIC EQUILIBRIA;

ENERGY EFFICIENCY;

ARTICLE; ELECTRIC POTENTIAL; ELECTRICITY; ELECTRODIALYSIS; ENERGY; ENERGY RECOVERY; HYDRAULIC PERMEABILITY; LABORATORY TEST; OSMOSIS; POWER SUPPLY; PROCESS MODEL; PRODUCTIVITY; RENEWABLE ENERGY; SALINITY; SCALE UP; THERMODYNAMICS; VELOCITY;

EID: 84918832756     PISSN: 03767388     EISSN: 18733123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2014.10.023     Document Type: Article

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