Blue Energy Extraction Using Salinity Gradients
A Critical Evaluation of Case Studies
- 1st Edition - April 19, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Authors: Mihir Kumar Purkait, Mukesh Sharma, Pranjal Pratim Das, Chang-Tang Chang
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 1 6 1 2 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 1 6 1 3 - 8
Blue Energy Extraction Using Salinity Gradients: A Critical Evaluation of Case Studies presents a collection of case studies on real-world power plants from around the world tha… Read more
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Request a sales quoteBlue Energy Extraction Using Salinity Gradients: A Critical Evaluation of Case Studies presents a collection of case studies on real-world power plants from around the world that involve sustainable energy extraction via salinity gradients. Using real-world examples, the book explains and demonstrates the fundamentals, technologies, processes, and application of salinity gradient energy extraction methods, while also offering practical solutions. The book provides an overview of the fundamentals and technologies of salinity gradient energy, with each chapter analyzing a real-world salinity gradient power plant from a different region of the world. Examples from developed and developing economies on three continents are covered.
For each case study, key aspects of performance are evaluated, and benefits and operational challenges are discussed. Validated mathematical models are also included to improve readers understanding of how to control operating parameters.
- Reviews the latest technologies, progress, and developments in sustainable energy generation using salinity gradients
- Provides real-world case studies from working power stations around the globe, focusing on the practical challenges that are faced by their implementation
- Critically evaluates the potential for energy generation using salinity gradients, which regions yield the greatest potential, and supports this understanding with mathematical models
- includes examples of full-scale osmotic power extraction
Students, researchers, and practicing engineers and professionals working in the area of sustainable/renewable energy extraction from the oceans, Disciples include civil, chemical, and environmental engineers, materials scientists, and coastal and ocean engineers with interests in energy applications
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Potential for power production using salinity gradients
- Abstract
- 1.1 Fundamentals of the blue energy
- 1.2 Principles of blue energy
- 1.3 Hybrid processes
- 1.4 Progress and prospects in theoretical to field scale setup
- 1.5 Energy price and membrane cost
- 1.6 Technological and environmental challenges
- 1.7 Future scope of the technology
- 1.8 Conclusions
- References
- Further reading
- Chapter 2. Blue energy extraction using a two-stage seawater reverse osmosis plant without external freshwater feed using pressure-retarded osmosis process: a theoretical case study
- Abstract
- 2.1 Introduction
- 2.2 Materials and involved methodology
- 2.3 Ideal energy utilization of the SWRO-PRO: modeling
- 2.4 Modeling of the energy consumption for the SWRO-PRO process under practical situations
- 2.5 SWRO-PRO model predictions and validations
- 2.6 Possible impacts and challenges in the realistic conditions
- 2.7 Economic feasibility and commercialization
- 2.8 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 3. A case study on the first prototype plant for osmotic energy extraction in Norway
- Abstract
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Implementation of the pressure-retarded osmosis
- 3.3 Developments in the membrane technology
- 3.4 Osmotic power potential
- 3.5 Environmental aspects
- 3.6 Site-specific constraints
- 3.7 Challenges and future perspective
- 3.8 Economic feasibility and commercialization
- 3.9 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 4. A strategical case study on energy extraction using salinity gradients at the river junction of the Magdalena River and Caribbean Sea
- Abstract
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Geographical and regional overview of the Magdalena River and Caribbean Sea
- 4.3 Methodology
- 4.4 Impact of thermohaline structure on the SGE potential
- 4.5 Pretreatment effect on potential from salinity gradients
- 4.6 Theoretical and site-specific potential
- 4.7 Energy economics
- 4.8 Site-specific constraints
- 4.9 Economic feasibility and commercialization
- 4.10 Challenges and future prospects
- 4.11 Conclusions
- References
- Further reading
- Chapter 5. Potential of power generation using salinity gradients: a case study on Hooghly estuarine region, India
- Abstract
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Methodology
- 5.3 Extractable power
- 5.4 Economic feasibility and commercialization
- 5.5 Site-specific constraints and future scope
- 5.6 Challenges and future perspectives
- 5.7 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 6. Energy extraction at the hypersaline Urmia Lake—ZarrinehRud River system in Iran: a case study
- Abstract
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Geographical and regional overview
- 6.3 Reverse electrodialysis for power generation
- 6.4 Extractable potential
- 6.5 Site-specific limitations
- 6.6 Challenges and future perspective
- 6.7 Economic feasibility and commercialization
- 6.8 Conclusion
- References
- Further reading
- Chapter 7. Prospect and development of energy extraction using salinity gradients in Colombia: a case study
- Abstract
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 Geographical and regional overview
- 7.3 Methodologies
- 7.4 Theoretical potential
- 7.5 Environmental and site-specific aspects
- 7.6 Sensitivity analysis
- 7.7 Challenges, site-specific limitations, and future scope
- 7.8 Economic feasibility and commercialization
- 7.9 Conclusions
- References
- Further reading
- Chapter 8. Using reverse electrodialysis for salinity gradient energy extraction at Trapani (Italy): a case study
- Abstract
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 Making of the REAPower pilot plant
- 8.3 Plant expansion and operating procedures
- 8.4 Net power output and umping losses
- 8.5 Examination with real solutions for understanding the site-specific limitations and future scope of the technology
- 8.6 Economic feasibility and commercialization
- 8.7 Challenges and future perspective
- 8.8 Conclusions
- References
- Chapter 9. Case study on the feasibility of blue energy generation at Haringvliet–Grevelingen
- Abstract
- 9.1 Introduction
- 9.2 Geographical and regional overview
- 9.3 Initial energy generation
- 9.4 Intake and outfall process
- 9.5 Pretreatment of the feed
- 9.6 Membrane stacks
- 9.7 Pumps, pipes, and turbines
- 9.8 Area
- 9.9 Capital cost and energy consumption
- 9.10 Energy production and cost dynamics
- 9.11 Net capital cost
- 9.12 Site-specific limitations and future scope
- 9.13 Economic feasibility and commercialization
- 9.14 Conclusion
- References
- Chapter 10. Premier, progress, and future perspective of blue energy
- Abstract
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 Premier and progress in the developed membranes
- 10.3 Design developments and the need for hybridization
- 10.4 Optimization of several hybrid processes
- 10.5 Technological advancement
- 10.6 Site-specific and environmental constraints
- 10.7 Future perspective of blue gradient energy
- 10.8 Conclusion
- References
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: April 19, 2024
- No. of pages (Paperback): 276
- No. of pages (eBook): 250
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443216121
- eBook ISBN: 9780443216138
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Mihir Kumar Purkait
Dr. Mihir Kumar Purkait is a Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam, India. His current research activities are focused in four distinct areas viz. i) advanced separation technologies, ii) waste to energy, iii) smart materials for various applications, and iv) process intensification. In each of the area, his goal is to synthesis stimuli responsive materials and to develop a more fundamental understanding of the factors governing the performance of the chemical and biochemical processes. He has more than 20 years of experience in academics and research and published more than 300 papers in different reputed journals (Citation: >16,500, h-index = 75, i-10 index = 193). He has 12 patents and completed 43 sponsored and consultancy projects from various funding agencies.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor, Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam, IndiaMS
Mukesh Sharma
Dr. Mukesh Sharma is currently a Research Fellow at Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati (IITG), India. He obtained his M.Sc. and PhD in Earth Science and Technology from Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, West Bengal, India. His research work includes membrane technology and its applications in simultaneous sustainable energy extraction, electrochemistry, wastewater treatment, water treatment, bioelectrochemical process, desalination, waste management, resource recovery, fuel cells and formation of value-added products derived from agricultural wastes and processes intensification. He has published many scientific research and review papers in various reputed international journals. He has authored several book chapters in various publications, including Elsevier, CRC and Springer and patented technologies and its demonstrations on the field of blue energy generations.
Affiliations and expertise
Research Fellow, Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, IndiaPD
Pranjal Pratim Das
Dr. Pranjal Pratim Das is a Technical Associate at the National Jal Jeevan Mission (NJJM) under the Ministry of Jal Shakti, Govt. of India. He has completed his PhD from the Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam, India. He received his M. Tech and B. Tech in Food Engineering and Technology from Tezpur (Central) University, Assam, India. His research work is purely dedicated to industrial wastewater treatment via electrochemical and advanced oxidation techniques. He has extensively worked on the application of hybrid ozone-electrocoagulation process to treat heavy metals and cyanide-contaminated effluents from different unit operations of steel industry. He has authored several scientific book publications, research/review articles and book chapters in various reputed international journals on water and wastewater treatment. He has fabricated and demonstrated many lab-scale modules for the green energy generation from sewage wastewaters. He has also worked on the treatment of ground and surface waters and has delivered many pilot plant set-ups to several water treatment facilities across the state of Assam (India) for the supply of safe drinking water
Affiliations and expertise
Technical Associate, National Jal Jeevan Mission, Ministry of Jal Shakti (Govt. of India), Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati, Assam, IndiaCC
Chang-Tang Chang
Chang-Tang Chang is a professor at National Ilan University, Taiwan (NIU). He is the chairman of Research and Development Center of Energy and Resource Technology at NIU and was the chairman of International Air and Waste Management Association (2010) in Taiwan section. He is also a professional Environmental Engineer. He has published more than 200 SCI papers, 22 patents, 25 book chapters, handled over 40 R&D projects, and guided 18 PhD and 40 Masters student in the field of environmental materials synthesis, energy generation and wastewater treatment. He is also experienced in both nonconventional energy generation from wastewater and saline water. In this book, Prof. Chang’s contribution will be essential for providing the numerous case studies for the treatment of various industrial effluent from Taiwan.
Affiliations and expertise
Chair Professor and Director, National Ilan University, Taiwan.Read Blue Energy Extraction Using Salinity Gradients on ScienceDirect