MUMBAI, India, Oct. 11 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202517080392 A) filed by Sweetch Energy, Saint-Gregoire, France, on Aug. 25, for 'device for generating power by salinity gradient comprising an activated carbon fabric.'
Inventor(s) include Mottet, Bruno; Sene, Assane; Kechadi, Mohammed; and Bizot, Chloe.
The application for the patent was published on Oct. 10, under issue no. 41/2025.
According to the abstract released by the Intellectual Property India: "The invention relates to a device for generating power, comprising: - two electrodes (1); - a stack of membranes (9), arranged between the two electrodes, comprising an alternation of membranes selectively permeable to cations (2) and membranes selectively permeable to anions (3), and such that each membrane is separated from an adjacent membrane by an intermembrane space in which an activated carbon fabric (4) is positioned; and - a device (5) making it possible to harvest the electric power generated by a potential differential existing between the two electrodes (1), the stack of membranes (9) being intended to be supplied by an electrolytic solution (7) of concentration CA in a solute and an electrolytic solution (8) of concentration CB in the same solute, CB being greater than CA, the solutions having to circulate alternately in the intermembrane spaces of the stack (9)."
The patent application was internationally filed on Jan. 26, 2024, under International application No.PCT/FR2024/050108.
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