Hydrovoltaics for Green Energy Production - I2I Market Assessment

用于绿色能源生产的水力发电 - I2I 市场评估

• 批准号: 577514-2022
• 负责人: Stamplecoskie, KevinKG
• 金额: $ 1.09万
• 依托单位: Queen's University
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Idea to Innovation
• 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=747670
• 关键词: Hydrovoltaics; Green; Energy; Production; I2I

The research undertaken will be a market assessment of an emerging green energy technology. Imagine a power source that harnesses thermal energy, while generating power continuously, regardless of whether it is day or night, sunlight or dark, windy or perfectly calm. Imagine a technology that is incredibly simple and cheap to manufacture and requires little or no maintenance. Imagine no longer, hydrovoltaics is this technology. Water contains an incredible amount of energy, enough to meet the annual global energy demand three times over. Very little of this energy, however, is currently harnessed for use. In recent years, scientists have demonstrated that it is possible to obtain sustained energy from natural water evaporation processes.Hydrovoltaic devices can overcome many of the limitations associated with conventional and renewable energy sources. For example, solar cells have a large footprint and require sunlight to generate power. Conversely, hydrovoltaic devices take up very little area and can function in different weather conditions throughout the day to produce a comparable power output to commercial photovoltaics. Hydrovoltaics can be used to generate power anywhere evaporation is occurring. Hydrovoltaic devices generate sustained power by simple flow of water driven by evaporation and capillary action. TAs evaporation is ubiquitous and continuous, so to is this generation of power.This simplistic power generation means that such devices could be used to supply power in areas where power generation is difficult. The first hydrovoltaic device was reported in 2017, so the field is incredibly new. We have since fine-tuned devices and have achieved power outputs three orders of magnitude higher. However, while now competitive in power output (based on the same footprint of a device) this is not the end of the story; research is being conducted to improve the power output even further, able to generate large scale power into the grid!

所进行的研究将是对一种新兴的绿色能源技术的市场评估。想象一下，一个利用热能的电源，同时持续发电，无论是白天还是黑夜，阳光还是黑暗，刮风还是完全平静。想象一下，有一种技术非常简单，制造成本低，几乎不需要维护。不再想象，水力学就是这项技术。水含有大量的能量，足以满足全球每年能源需求的三倍以上。然而，目前这种能源很少被利用。近年来，科学家们已经证明，从自然水蒸发过程中获得持续的能量是可能的。水力发电设备可以克服与传统和可再生能源相关的许多限制。例如，太阳能电池占地面积大，需要阳光来发电。相反，水力发电设备占地面积很小，可以在一天中的不同天气条件下工作，产生与商业光伏发电相当的电力输出。水力发电可用于任何发生蒸发的地方发电。水力发电装置通过蒸发和毛细作用驱动的简单水流产生持续的电力。TA的蒸发是无处不在和持续的，所以这种发电也是如此。这种简单的发电意味着这种设备可以用于在发电困难的地区供电。据报道，第一个水力发电设备是在2017年，所以这个领域是非常新的。从那以后，我们对设备进行了微调，并实现了三个数量级的功率输出。然而，虽然现在在功率输出方面具有竞争力（基于相同的设备占地面积），但这并不是故事的结束;正在进行研究以进一步提高功率输出，能够产生大规模的电力进入电网！