PALO ALTO RESEARCH CENTER INCORPORATED;Jessica Louis Baker Rivest;Armin R Volkel;Divyaraj Desai;Vedasri Vedharathinam;Saroj Kumar Sahu
发明人:
Armin R Volkel,Jessica Louis Baker Rivest,Divyaraj Desai,Vedasri Vedharathinam,Saroj Kumar Sahu
申请号：
IL24596716
公开号：
IL245967D0
申请日:
2016.06.01
申请国别(地区):
IL
年份:
2016
代理人:
摘要：
An energy storage system employing a reversible salination-desalination process includes an electrochemical desalination battery (EDB) unit including an anode and a cathode. The EDB unit runs a salination process while storing energy from a direct current power supply unit, and runs a desalination process while releasing energy to an electrical load. The energy storage system can store power from a variable output electrical power supply unit such as solar cells and wind turbines while running a salination process, and release energy, e.g., during peak energy demand hours while running a desalination process. Combined with a capacitive deionization (CD) unit, the energy storage system can generate fresh water by running desalination processes in the EDB unit and the CD unit while releasing stored energy from the EDB unit. The energy storage unit can function as a dual purpose device for energy storage (load shifting) and fresh water generation.
