The Green Lean Amine Machine: Harvesting Electric Power While Capturing Carbon Dioxide from Breath
Abstract As wearable technologies redefine the way people exchange information, receive entertainment, and monitor health, the development of sustainable power sources that capture energy from the user's everyday activities garners increasing interest. Electric fishes, such as the electric eel...
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| author | Trevor J. Kalkus Anirvan Guha Philip B.V. Scholten Dmitrii Nagornii Ali Coskun Alessandro Ianiro Michael Mayer |
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| description | Abstract As wearable technologies redefine the way people exchange information, receive entertainment, and monitor health, the development of sustainable power sources that capture energy from the user's everyday activities garners increasing interest. Electric fishes, such as the electric eel and the torpedo ray, provide inspiration for such a power source with their ability to generate massive discharges of electricity solely from the metabolic processes within their bodies. Inspired by their example, the device presented in this work harnesses electric power from ion gradients established by capturing the carbon dioxide (CO2) from human breath. Upon localized exposure to CO2, this novel adaptation of reverse electrodialysis chemically generates ion gradients from a single initial solution uniformly distributed throughout the device instead of requiring the active circulation of two different external solutions. A thorough analysis of the relationship between electrical output and the concentration of carbon capture agent (monoethanolamine, MEA), the amount of CO2 captured, and the device geometry informs device design. The prototype device presented here harvests enough energy from a breath‐generated ion gradient to power small electronic devices, such as a light‐emitting diode (LED). |
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| spelling | doaj.art-809a58c245d049f0ab55f8789002c94f2022-12-21T22:30:35ZengWileyAdvanced Science2198-38442021-08-01815n/an/a10.1002/advs.202100995The Green Lean Amine Machine: Harvesting Electric Power While Capturing Carbon Dioxide from BreathTrevor J. Kalkus0Anirvan Guha1Philip B.V. Scholten2Dmitrii Nagornii3Ali Coskun4Alessandro Ianiro5Michael Mayer6Adolphe Merkle Institute University of Fribourg Chemin des Verdiers 4 Fribourg 1700 SwitzerlandAdolphe Merkle Institute University of Fribourg Chemin des Verdiers 4 Fribourg 1700 SwitzerlandAdolphe Merkle Institute University of Fribourg Chemin des Verdiers 4 Fribourg 1700 SwitzerlandRadboud University Houtlaan 4 Nijmegen 6525 XZ NetherlandsDepartment of Chemistry University of Fribourg Chemin du Musee 9 Fribourg 1700 SwitzerlandAdolphe Merkle Institute University of Fribourg Chemin des Verdiers 4 Fribourg 1700 SwitzerlandAdolphe Merkle Institute University of Fribourg Chemin des Verdiers 4 Fribourg 1700 SwitzerlandAbstract As wearable technologies redefine the way people exchange information, receive entertainment, and monitor health, the development of sustainable power sources that capture energy from the user's everyday activities garners increasing interest. Electric fishes, such as the electric eel and the torpedo ray, provide inspiration for such a power source with their ability to generate massive discharges of electricity solely from the metabolic processes within their bodies. Inspired by their example, the device presented in this work harnesses electric power from ion gradients established by capturing the carbon dioxide (CO2) from human breath. Upon localized exposure to CO2, this novel adaptation of reverse electrodialysis chemically generates ion gradients from a single initial solution uniformly distributed throughout the device instead of requiring the active circulation of two different external solutions. A thorough analysis of the relationship between electrical output and the concentration of carbon capture agent (monoethanolamine, MEA), the amount of CO2 captured, and the device geometry informs device design. The prototype device presented here harvests enough energy from a breath‐generated ion gradient to power small electronic devices, such as a light‐emitting diode (LED).https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202100995breathcarbon capturemonoethanolaminereverse electrodialysis |
| spellingShingle | Trevor J. Kalkus Anirvan Guha Philip B.V. Scholten Dmitrii Nagornii Ali Coskun Alessandro Ianiro Michael Mayer The Green Lean Amine Machine: Harvesting Electric Power While Capturing Carbon Dioxide from Breath Advanced Science breath carbon capture monoethanolamine reverse electrodialysis |
| title | The Green Lean Amine Machine: Harvesting Electric Power While Capturing Carbon Dioxide from Breath |
| title_full | The Green Lean Amine Machine: Harvesting Electric Power While Capturing Carbon Dioxide from Breath |
| title_fullStr | The Green Lean Amine Machine: Harvesting Electric Power While Capturing Carbon Dioxide from Breath |
| title_full_unstemmed | The Green Lean Amine Machine: Harvesting Electric Power While Capturing Carbon Dioxide from Breath |
| title_short | The Green Lean Amine Machine: Harvesting Electric Power While Capturing Carbon Dioxide from Breath |
| title_sort | green lean amine machine harvesting electric power while capturing carbon dioxide from breath |
| topic | breath carbon capture monoethanolamine reverse electrodialysis |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202100995 |
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