Carbon electrodes for capacitive technologies

P Ratajczak, ME Suss, F Kaasik, F Béguin - Energy Storage Materials, 2019 - Elsevier
An overview of capacitive technologies based on carbon materials (energy storage in
electrical double-layer capacitors (EDLCs), capacitive deionization (CDI), energy harvesting …

Pressure-retarded osmosis for power generation from salinity gradients: is it viable?

AP Straub, A Deshmukh, M Elimelech - Energy & Environmental …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
The enormous potential of harvesting energy from salinity gradients has been discussed for
decades, and pressure-retarded osmosis (PRO) is being increasingly investigated as a …

Towards sustainability in water-energy nexus: Ocean energy for seawater desalination

Z Li, A Siddiqi, LD Anadon, V Narayanamurti - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2018 - Elsevier
Seawater desalination is an important option for addressing the world's water supply
challenges. Current desalination plants use enormous quantities of energy and cause a …

Lithium extraction from brine through a decoupled and membrane-free electrochemical cell design

Z Li, IC Chen, L Cao, X Liu, KW Huang, Z Lai - Science, 2024 - science.org
The sustainability of lithium-based energy storage or conversion systems, eg, lithium-ion
batteries, can be enhanced by establishing methods of efficient lithium extraction from harsh …

A logical data representation framework for electricity-driven bioproduction processes

SA Patil, S Gildemyn, D Pant, K Zengler, BE Logan… - Biotechnology …, 2015 - Elsevier
Microbial electrosynthesis (MES) is a process that uses electricity as an energy source for
driving the production of chemicals and fuels using microorganisms and CO 2 or organics as …

Extracting energy from ocean thermal and salinity gradients to power unmanned underwater vehicles: State of the art, current limitations, and future outlook

H Jung, CV Subban, JD McTigue, JJ Martinez… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2022 - Elsevier
Thermal gradient energy-generation technologies for powering unmanned underwater
vehicles (UUVs) or autonomous sensing systems in the ocean are mainly in the research …

Thermodynamic limits of extractable energy by pressure retarded osmosis

S Lin, AP Straub, M Elimelech - Energy & Environmental Science, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
Salinity gradient energy, which is released upon mixing two solutions of different
concentrations, is considered to be a promising source of sustainable power. Of the methods …

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] Making wastewater obsolete: selective separations to enable circular water treatment

WA Tarpeh, X Chen - Environmental Science and Ecotechnology, 2021 - Elsevier
By 2050, the societal needs and innovation drivers of the 21st century will be in full swing:
mitigating climate change, minimizing anthropogenic effects on natural ecosystems …

Review of thermally regenerative batteries based on redox reaction and distillation for harvesting low-grade heat as electricity

W Wang, H Tian, D Huo, G Shu - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Low-grade thermal energy (< 100° C) is ubiquitous in nature and human activities,
and its enormous reserves and renewability make it significant to convert it into electricity …