
Salinity Gradient Heat Engines
Description
Key Features
- Focuses on advanced, yet practical, recovery of waste heat via salinity gradient heat engines
- Outlines the existing salinity gradient heat engines and discusses fundamentals, potential and perspectives of each of them
- Includes economics and environmental aspects
- Provides an innovative reference for all industrial sectors involving processes where low-temperature waste-heat is available.
Readership
Engineers, professionals and researchers in fields of energy production, energy efficiency and sustainability; innovators within the industrial sector involved in processes where low-temperature waste heat is available; R&D managers in industry; academic researchers, graduate students in energy, but also chemical engineering, chemistry, physics, electrical and mechanical engineering disciplines
Table of Contents
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Salinity gradient heat engines: An innovative concept for waste heat valorization
- Abstract
- 1.1: Background and motivation
- 1.2: What is salinity gradient energy?
- 1.3: Salinity gradient heat engines: Introduction, fundamentals, and classification
- 1.4: Chapters’ outline
- References
- Chapter 2: The state of art of conventional and nonconventional heat engines
- Abstract
- 2.1: General information
- 2.2: Power plants
- 2.3: Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 3: Osmotic heat engine (OHE)
- Abstract
- 3.1: Fundamentals of pressure-retarded osmosis and osmotic heat engine
- 3.2: Salt selection
- 3.3: Process couplings in OHE
- 3.4: Perspectives
- References
- Chapter 4: Reverse electrodialysis heat engine (REDHE)
- Abstract
- 4.1: Fundamentals of reverse electrodialysis
- 4.2: Fundamentals of RED heat engines
- 4.3: Salt selection
- 4.4: RED heat engines
- References
- Chapter 5: Solvent extraction regeneration technologies
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- 5.1: Introduction
- 5.2: Multieffect distillation for regeneration in an SGP-HE
- 5.3: Membrane distillation for regeneration in an SGP-HE
- 5.4: Forward osmosis for regeneration in an SGP-HE
- 5.5: Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 6: Salt extraction regeneration technologies
- Abstract
- 6.1: Introduction
- 6.2: Switchable solubility salts
- 6.3: Thermolytic salts
- 6.4: Final remarks
- References
- Chapter 7: Coupling salinity gradient heat engines with power generation systems and industrial processes
- Abstract
- 7.1: Introduction
- 7.2: Identification of potential applications of salinity gradients power-heat engines in power plants and industries
- 7.3: Description and modeling of the case studies proposed
- 7.4: Notes on energy, economic, and environmental indicators used
- 7.5: Results
- 7.6: Perspective analysis with high-efficient reverse electrodialysis-heat engine
- 7.7: Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 8: Special engines
- Abstract
- Part 1: Accumulator mixing heat engine
- Part 2: Thermally regenerative ammonia battery (TRAB): Fundamentals and perspectives
- Part 3: Swelling/shrinking hydrogels engines: Fundamentals and perspectives
- Chapter 9: Resource, environmental, and economic aspects of SGHE
- Abstract
- 9.1: Resource assessment—Heat availability
- 9.2: Environmental impacts of SGHE
- 9.3: Economics of SGHE
- 9.4: Conclusions
- References
- Index
Product details
- No. of pages: 374
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Woodhead Publishing 2021
- Published: November 3, 2021
- Imprint: Woodhead Publishing
- eBook ISBN: 9780081028643
- Paperback ISBN: 9780081028476
About the Editors
Alessandro Tamburini
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Andrea Cipollina
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Giorgio Micale
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