I-Corps: An Electrochemical Desalination Cell

I-Corps：电化学脱盐电池

• 批准号: 1237241
• 负责人: Andre Taylor
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: Yale University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-03-15 至 2013-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1237241&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Electrochemical; Desalination; Cell

This Innovation Corps project will enable focused research by the proposed team to help bring the proposed Electrochemical Desalination Cell (EDC) to the market. EDC desalinates brine waste while producing electricity, synthesizing valuable inorganic chemicals, and consuming carbon dioxide. The I-Corps PI's previous NSF awards investigate the structure property relationships of nanomaterials in energy conversion devices. The first demonstration of the EDC was complete in through previous research, and proved the thermodynamic feasibility of the device. The primary research goal for this project is to achieve power densities and desalination rates an order of magnitude higher than that obtained from the initial prototype. If successful, the proposed technology has the potential to create a sustainable business through an industrial ecological approach that combines energy generation, brine treatment and chemical synthesis into a single, integrated process.

该创新军团项目将使拟议团队进行重点研究，以帮助将拟议的电化学脱盐电池（EDC）推向市场。 EDC 对盐水废物进行淡化，同时发电、合成有价值的无机化学品并消耗二氧化碳。 I-Corps PI 之前获得的 NSF 奖项研究了能量转换装置中纳米材料的结构特性关系。通过前期研究完成了EDC的首次演示，并证明了该装置的热力学可行性。该项目的主要研究目标是实现比初始原型高一个数量级的功率密度和海水淡化率。 如果成功，拟议的技术有潜力通过工业生态方法创造可持续的业务，将能源产生、盐水处理和化学合成结合到一个单一的集成过程中。