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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 16, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 08, 2015
Applied Biomimetic A/s, Nordborg, DK;
Steen Søndergaard Nissen, Ellicott City, MD (US);
Jørgen Mads Clausen, Sønderborg, DK;
APPLIED BIOMIMETIC A/S, Nordborg, DK;
Abstract
A process for the generation of electricity comprises the steps of extracting a warm saline stream from a geothermal formation, and converting latent osmotic energy present in said stream into electricity by passage through an osmotic power unit in which said stream is passed over one side of a semi-permeable membrane which permits the passage of water but not the passage of salts, an aqueous stream of lower salinity than said stream being passed over the other side of said membrane. The temperature of said warm saline stream is reduced before said stream enters the osmotic power unit by passage through a thermal power unit in which thermal energy present in said stream is converted into electricity.