Energy Storage – Page 33 – TechConnect Briefs

Nickel-Zinc Rechargeable Batteries – the High Performance, Low Cost, Clean Solution for Hybrid Vehicles

Squiller D., PowerGenix, US

Rising interest in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEVs) has created pressure to develop more powerful and efficient vehicle battery systems. While Lithium-Ion batteries have shown potential in fully electric applications, cost and safety issues leave little [...]

Properties of Linear Low Density Polyethylene Reinforced with Multi-walled Carbon Nanotubes by Cryogenic Ball-Milling

Narh K.A., Terife G., New Jersey Institute of Technology, US

The combination of high aspect ratio, small size, very low density, and more importantly, excellent physical properties, such as extremely high mechanical strength and stiffness, high electrical and thermal conductivity, make carbon nanotubes (CNTs) perfect [...]

Advanced p- and n-Dopable Polymer Supercapacitors

Kim Y.-G., Kinlen P.J., Jung J.H., Mbugua J., Besic S., Birschbach M., Tregre G., Nguyen H.-L., Crosslink, US

Metallic conductive PAC 1003, an inherently conductive polymer product of Crosslink, has been developed to have remarkably high electrical conductivity of >1000 S/cm which can be applied to advanced polymer supercapacitor designs. The metallic conductivity [...]

Energy Storage & Novel Generation

Generation of clean energy by applying parametric resonance to quantum nonlocality clocking

Berkovich S.Y., The George Washington University, US

A novel principle for generation of clean and abundant energy is presented [1]. The required ability to move matter comes from a new source: clocking mechanism of: Universe’s nonlocality. The phenomenon of nonlocality – instantaneous [...]

Dynamic Model Refinement for Buoyant Energy Storage Technology

Thornbrue T.B., Ghorbani R., University of Hawaii at Manoa, US

As the use of renewable electricity grows, energy storage is becoming a better solution to grid destabilization challenges associated with resource intermittency. With cost being a key barrier to widespread adoption, buoyant energy storage technology [...]

Study of the factors effect on the power storage and generation of a nano-biomimetic membrane electrode-assembling (NBMEA) for battery/fuel cell dual applications

Chen E.T., Ngatchou C., Advanced Biomimetic Sensors, Inc., US

An unmet need has been identified: a high power and high energy density system that is environmentally safe and economically affordable is in urgent need. E. Chen’s group recently reported an innovative approach: using an [...]

Adsorption-Enhanced Compressed Air Energy Storage

Havel T.F., Energy Compression Inc., US

Adsorption-Enhanced Compressed Air Energy Storage (AE-CAES) uses nano-porous materials to adsorb air. The use of an adsorbent changes the effective equation of state for air, so that it becomes possible to operate the system at [...]

The Design, Installation, and Maintenance of a Village-Sized Solar Power System in Uganda

Osende B.M., Abraham J.P., Mowry G.S., University of St. Thomas, US

A microscale solar power project was completed to provide electricity to a small, remote village in Uganda. The system electrified 50 homes, one school, and one pharmacy with a very low cost. The success of [...]

Increased Bandwidth of Mechanical Harvester

Ahmed Seddik B., Despesse G., Defay E., CEA/Leti-Campus, FR

Mechanical energy harvesters ensure an important electromechanical coupling when their natural frequency matches the input frequency. Nevertheless, in many situations the driving frequency is not known or it might change over time. In that case, [...]