US 9,502,720 B2Granted

Seawater power generation system

AssigneeTaiwan Carbon Nanotube Technology Corporation

InventorsChun-Hsien Tsai, Kuang-Che Lee, Chun-Jung Tsai, Ting-Chuan Lee, Yuan-Shin Huang

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Abstract

A seawater power generation system is installed beside an ocean and comprises a seawater processing apparatus, a precipitation apparatus, a separation apparatus and a power generation apparatus. The seawater processing apparatus obtains seawater from the ocean and concentrates the seawater into concentrated seawater. The precipitation apparatus heats the concentrated seawater to form a precipitate of a metal oxide. The separation apparatus heats the metal oxide and reduces the metal oxide into a metal. The power generation apparatus uses the metal as a first electrode and includes a second electrode and an electrolyte contacting the first electrode and the second electrode. Thereby, the seawater is continuously fabricated into the first electrode. The electrolyte respectively reacts with the first electrode and the second electrode in an electrochemical reaction fashion to form a potential difference between the first and second electrode and generate stable electric power.

Claims10

Dependent claims

A seawater power generation system installed beside an ocean and comprising

a seawater processing apparatus including a seawater obtaining device connected with the ocean and obtaining seawater from the ocean and a concentration device connected with the seawater obtaining device and concentrating the seawater into concentrated seawater;
a precipitation apparatus including a chamber communicating with the concentration device to receive the concentrated seawater and a first heater arranged inside the chamber and heating the concentrated seawater to form a precipitate of a metal oxide;
a separation apparatus connected with the precipitation apparatus and including a second heater heating the precipitate of the metal oxide to reduce the metal oxide into a metal;
and
a power generation apparatus using the metal as a first electrode and including a second electrode and an electrolyte contacting the first electrode and the second electrode,
wherein the electrolyte respectively reacts with the first electrode and the second electrode in an electrochemical reaction fashion to form a potential difference between the first electrode and the second electrode and generate electric power.

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Facts

Application: 14/488,869Filed 17 Sep 2014
Priority: TW 102133812 A18 Sep 2013
Published: US 2015/0079476 A119 Mar 2015
Granted: 22 Nov 2016
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification8 codes

H01M 6/50
Primary cells; Manufacture thereof: methods or arrangements for servicing or maintenance, e.g. for maintaining operating temperature
H01M 4/12
Processes of manufacture: of consumable metal or alloy electrodes
H01M 6/04
Primary cells; Manufacture thereof: cells with aqueous electrolyte
H01M 4/466
Alloys based on magnesium or aluminium: magnesium based