Research and scale-up of a microbial fuel cell for renewable energy storage

用于可再生能源存储的微生物燃料电池的研究和规模化

• 批准号: RGPIN-2019-05913
• 负责人: Karamanev, Dimitre
• 金额: $ 2.04万
• 依托单位: University of Western Ontario
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Discovery Grants Program - Individual
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2022-01-01 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=746695
• 关键词: Research; scale; up; microbial; fuel

The use of renewable primary energy sources, particularly wind and solar, possesses the greatest potential for solving both the environmental and long-term fuel availability problems of current electrical power generation world-wide, and more specifically, in Canada. Unfortunately, both wind and solar power generation technologies share one significant drawback - intermittency, which is often unpredictable. Without effective smoothing or storage of energy, the widespread use of renewables cannot be viable. Recently, it was stated that "electricity storage really is the Holy Grail" of renewable power. Currently, there is no well-established, cost-efficient and widely applicable energy storage technology. Among the different storage technologies under development, it appears that hydrogen-based storage holds a great promise. One of the key elements in hydrogen energy storage is the conversion of hydrogen to electricity. A unique hydrogen re-electrification technology, named BioGenerator, was developed by the PI of this proposal in collaboration with students and researchers and was patented worldwide by the UWO. The general objectives of this proposal are: (1) to improve significantly the technical characteristics of the BioGenerator by studying its fundamental properties, including the biokinetics, hydrodynamics, mass transfer and electrochemistry; and (2) to work towards commercialization of the BioGenerator by performing scale-up, cost analysis and system integration.

使用可再生一次能源，特别是风能和太阳能，在解决全球（尤其是加拿大）当前发电的环境和长期燃料可用性问题方面具有最大的潜力。不幸的是，风能和太阳能发电技术都有一个显着的缺点——间歇性，这通常是不可预测的。如果没有有效的能源平滑或储存，可再生能源的广泛使用就不可能可行。最近，有人表示“电力存储确实是可再生能源的圣杯”。目前，还没有成熟的、具有成本效益且广泛适用的储能技术。在正在开发的不同存储技术中，氢存储似乎前景广阔。氢能存储的关键要素之一是将氢转化为电能。该提案的 PI 与学生和研究人员合作开发了一种名为 BioGenerator 的独特氢再电气化技术，并已获得 UWO 在全球范围内的专利。该提案的总体目标是：（1）通过研究生物发生器的基本特性，包括生物动力学、流体动力学、传质和电化学，显着提高其技术特性； (2) 通过扩大规模、成本分析和系统集成，努力实现 BioGenerator 的商业化。