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HARVESTING ENERGY FROM HUMIDITY FLUCTUATIONS
The innovation uses the disparity between dry and wet conditions of the air, by storing the ‘dryness’ or ‘wetness’ in a hygroscopic material. When the surrounding air is drier or wetter than the hygroscopic material, the potential energy difference between moisture in the air and that in the material can be used as a way of transporting heat from the material to the air and vice versa. A simple way this energy can be used is for heating and cooling of a building. For example, a large storage of adsorbing material can be dried in the hot summer, and allowed to re-adsorb water in the cold winter, thus gaining heat that can be used for domestic heating.
HARVESTING ENERGY FROM HUMIDITY FLUCTUATIONS
The innovation uses the disparity between dry and wet conditions of the air, by storing the ‘dryness’ or ‘wetness’ in a hygroscopic material. When the surrounding air is drier or wetter than the hygroscopic material, the potential energy difference between moisture in the air and that in the material can be used as a way of transporting heat from the material to the air and vice versa. A simple way this energy can be used is for heating and cooling of a building. For example, a large storage of adsorbing material can be dried in the hot summer, and allowed to re-adsorb water in the cold winter, thus gaining heat that can be used for domestic heating.
HARVESTING ENERGY FROM HUMIDITY FLUCTUATIONS
ENERGIEGEWINNUNG AUS FEUCHTIGKEITSSCHWANKUNGEN
COLLECTE D'ÉNERGIE À PARTIR DE VARIATIONS D'HUMIDITÉ
ZCHORI DROR (author) / NATHAN JONATHAN (author) / RUTMAN JEREMY (author)
2019-03-13
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
Energy harvesting from hydraulic pressure fluctuations
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