Harvesting low-grade heat energy using thermo-osmotic vapour transport through nanoporous membranes

Nature Energy

Volumn 1, Issue 7, 2016, Pages

  Straub, Anthony P ^a   Yip, Ngai Yin ^b   Lin, Shihong ^c   Lee, Jongho ^a   Elimelech, Menachem ^a  

^a Yale University   (United States)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OSMOSIS; TEMPERATURE;

FULL-SCALE SYSTEM; HYDRAULIC PRESSURE; LOW GRADE HEAT SOURCES; LOW-TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCE; MECHANICAL WORK; NANOPOROUS MEMBRANE; TEMPERATURE DIFFERENCES; VAPOUR TRANSPORT;

HARVESTING;

EID: 85009071745     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20587546     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nenergy.2016.90     Document Type: Article

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