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Cover Feature: Thermally Regenerable Redox Flow Battery (ChemSusChem 20/2020)
Author(s) -
Facchinetti Irene,
Cobani Elkid,
Brogioli Doriano,
La Mantia Fabio,
Ruffo Riccardo
Publication year - 2020
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.202002071
Subject(s) - battery (electricity) , cover (algebra) , electricity , materials science , process engineering , distillation , aqueous solution , chemical engineering , redox , power (physics) , environmental science , chemistry , thermodynamics , electrical engineering , mechanical engineering , organic chemistry , physics , engineering , metallurgy
The Cover Feature shows the working principle of a thermally regenerable battery, which uses the free energy of LiBr aqueous solutions to produce electrical energy and can be thermally regenerated through low‐temperature distillation at 100 °C. The proposed system reaches a high value of power density (8 W m 2 ) and a heat‐to‐electricity conversion efficiency of about 4 %, the highest value reached in the field of harvesting low‐temperature heat up to now. More information can be found in the Full Paper by I. Facchinetti et al.