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Leveraging Gigawatt Potentials by Smart Heat‐Pump Technologies Using Ionic Liquids
Author(s) -
Wasserscheid Peter,
Seiler Matthias
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
chemsuschem
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.412
H-Index - 157
eISSN - 1864-564X
pISSN - 1864-5631
DOI - 10.1002/cssc.201000191
Subject(s) - waste heat , renewable energy , process engineering , energy transformation , transformation (genetics) , renewable heat , thermal energy storage , thermal energy , energy storage , ionic liquid , environmental science , computer science , materials science , mechanical engineering , thermodynamics , chemistry , hybrid heat , engineering , electrical engineering , physics , biochemistry , power (physics) , heat exchanger , gene , catalysis
One of the greatest challenges to science in the 21 st century is the development of efficient energy production, storage, and transformation systems with minimal ecological footprints. Due to the lack of efficient heat‐transformation technologies, industries around the world currently waste energy in the gigawatt range at low temperatures (40–80 °C). These energy potentials can be unlocked or used more efficiently through a new generation of smart heat pumps operating with novel ionic liquid (IL)‐based working pairs. The new technology is expected to allow revolutionary technical progress in heat‐transformation devices, for example, significantly higher potential efficiencies, lower specific investments, and broader possibilities to incorporate waste energy from renewable sources. Furthermore, due to drastically reduced corrosion rates and excellent thermal stabilities of the new, IL‐based working pairs, the high driving temperatures necessary for multi‐effect cycles such as double‐ or triple‐effect absorption chillers, can also be realized. The details of this novel and innovative heat‐transformation technology are described.