Progress and prospects in reverse electrodialysis for salinity gradient energy conversion and storage

RA Tufa, S Pawlowski, J Veerman, K Bouzek… - Applied energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Salinity gradient energy is currently attracting growing attention among the scientific
community as a renewable energy source. In particular, Reverse Electrodialysis (RED) is …

Salinity gradients for sustainable energy: primer, progress, and prospects

NY Yip, D Brogioli, HVM Hamelers… - … science & technology, 2016 - ACS Publications
Combining two solutions of different composition releases the Gibbs free energy of mixing.
By using engineered processes to control the mixing, chemical energy stored in salinity …

Towards 1 kW power production in a reverse electrodialysis pilot plant with saline waters and concentrated brines

M Tedesco, A Cipollina, A Tamburini… - Journal of Membrane …, 2017 - Elsevier
Reverse electrodialysis (RED) is a promising technology to extract energy from salinity
gradients, especially in the areas where concentrated brine and saline waters are available …

Progress in membranes for pressure retarded osmosis application

SN Rahman, H Saleem, SJ Zaidi - Desalination, 2023 - Elsevier
The ever-growing global energy crisis has been pushing industries to lean towards
renewable resources as an alternative for power generation. Recent research is focusing …

Practical global salinity gradient energy potential

OA Alvarez-Silva, AF Osorio, C Winter - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2016 - Elsevier
Salinity gradient energy (SGE) is a clean and renewable energy source that can be
harnessed from the controlled mixing of two water masses of different salt concentration …

[HTML][HTML] The potential of salinity gradient energy based on natural and anthropogenic resources in Sweden

M Essalhi, AH Avci, F Lipnizki, N Tavajohi - Renewable Energy, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper presents assessment of natural and anthropogenic sources of blue energy within
Swedish territory to identify suitable spots for implementing new projects. The natural energy …

A water-energy nexus review from the perspective of urban metabolism

JL Fan, LS Kong, H Wang, X Zhang - Ecological modelling, 2019 - Elsevier
Urban water-energy (WE) nexus is regarded as highly important in managing resource
shortage crisis in city. Integrating this nexus approach with metabolism framework can …

Membrane-based indirect power generation technologies for harvesting salinity gradient energy-A review

Y Jiao, L Song, C Zhao, Y An, W Lu, B He, C Yang - Desalination, 2022 - Elsevier
The giant and sustainable salinity gradient energy broadly occurs when mixing solution
sources with different concentrations can be potentially harvested through the intensively …

Long-run operation of a reverse electrodialysis system fed with wastewaters

JL Di Salvo, A Cosenza, A Tamburini, G Micale… - Journal of environmental …, 2018 - Elsevier
The performance of a Reverse ElectroDialysis (RED) system fed by unconventional
wastewater solutions for long operational periods is analysed for the first time. The …

Salinity gradient induced blue energy generation using two-dimensional membranes

D Manikandan, S Karishma, M Kumar… - npj 2D Materials and …, 2024 - nature.com
Salinity gradient energy (SGE), known as blue energy is harvested from mixing seawater
with river water in a controlled way using ion exchange membranes (IEMs). Using 2D …