Useful thermal effects in electrochemical systems
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Redox reactions with high entropy changes can be used to make effective refrigerators and heat engines. This work demonstrates electrochemical systems that harvest heat energy (with efficiency > 60% of Carnot) and can provide effective cooling (at power > 0.5W/cm^3). A key advantage is that electromigration and mass advection in electrolytes can be optimized separately to decouple charge, entropy, and heat transport in ways that aren't possible with solid-state thermoelectrics. While these devices are a long way from any practical use, they might inform or inspire other researchers working towards hydrofluorocarbon-free refrigeration or energy harvesting.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2019; ©2019 |
| Publication date | 2019; 2019 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | McKay, Ian Salmon |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Cargnello, Matteo |
| Degree supervisor | Majumdar, Arunava |
| Thesis advisor | Cargnello, Matteo |
| Thesis advisor | Majumdar, Arunava |
| Thesis advisor | Chueh, William |
| Degree committee member | Chueh, William |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Chemical Engineering. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Ian Salmon McKay. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Chemical Engineering. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2019. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2019 by Ian Salmon McKay
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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