On the present and future economic viability of stand-alone pressure-retarded osmosis

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• 作者：Hyung Won Chung ; Leonardo D. Banchik ; Jaichander Swaminathan ; John H. Lienhard V ; ^{lienhard@mit.edu}
• 关键词：Pressure-retarded osmosis ; Economic analysis ; Levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) ; Renewable energy ; High salinity
• 刊名：Desalination
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：15 April 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：408
• 期：Complete
• 页码：133-144
• 全文大小：1436 K
• 卷排序：408

文摘

A comprehensive economic analysis was developed for wide range of salinities. Nonlinear optimization ensures that the results are general. A lower bound of the levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) was calculated. The lower bound LCOE identifies operating conditions which are not economically viable. Pressure-retarded osmosis is potentially viable only with extremely high draw salinities (>18%).