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Capacity loose of Saltx system

Daniel — Fri, 22 Jun 2018 12:05:26 +0000

Electric batteries has problems with loose of their capacity depending on how often or how they are used and charged....

What about Saltx? How many cycles of dis / charge can heat storage system withstand to loose some capacity?

Coolness with SaltX technology

Daniel — Fri, 22 Jun 2018 11:57:06 +0000

I was thinking about SaltX where this technology is great. It has many advantages and useful new features. But it seems to me that SaltX can very effectively produce cold. So my view is that it can be very efficient even when charging with electricity to produce cold ....

Can this technology be used in a refrigerator? Or related applications

Case of the Week: Week 23 - Food delivery bag heating and cooling innovation

liudas@saltxtechnology — Sun, 17 Jun 2018 12:48:27 +0000

Are you interested in the food delivery infrastructure? Are you a food entrepreneur, or maybe you’re running a restaurant? SaltX Labs Case Of The Week this week is about keeping the hot foods hot and the cold foods cold during the delivery.
Food delivery is a rapidly growing market. Sharing economy has brought such giants as Uber Eats and many regional ones like Deliveroo and Foodora in Sweden or Doordash, Caviar, and Grubhub in California. According to McKinsey the food delivery market in 2025 will be worth 20 billion EUR. Managing that food is delivered to the right person, on time and still hot is a huge challenge for the sharing economy companies as well as for the delivery people. Anything that can help keep the pizzas hot and ice-cream cold is a very welcome invention.
SaltX Technology can easily solve a lot of challenges in maintaining the temperature of the food. Imagine a smaller and thinner SaltX demo tube that is placed in the delivery bag to keep one compartment hot while cooling down the other compartment. The salt could even be shaped in such a way that it resembles other types of heating elements. The best advantage is that SaltX battery creates both – heating and cooling. Are you interested to develop the next generation of food delivery bags? Would you like to make money and sell the heated and cooled food delivery bags to the delivery companies?

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Here are a few sources about food delivery bags:
An explanation about the bags currently used by Uber Eats
https://youtu.be/ZbvYzsFHdkU

Electric bag heating alternatives for delivery bag heating:
https://www.incrediblebag.com/Heating-Elements-s/78.htm

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Case of the Week: Week 22 - Heat your water while air conditioning your home

liudas@saltxtechnology — Mon, 11 Jun 2018 08:52:01 +0000

Are you interested in decreasing your energy bill? Would you like to get free water heating from the sun while cooling the hot rooms? The case of the week at SaltX Labs is all about saving money spent on energy to heat and cool environment.
Air conditioners use about 6% of all the electricity produced in the United States, at an annual cost of about $29 billion to homeowners. Most ACs could easily run on energy harvested from the sun. In addition to that, sun heat can also provide hot water in the tap and showers. Achieving energy independence has been a very important goal for developing nations as well as those countries where energy grid is less stable. Using solar heat for heating water and air conditioning is a very important factor for energy independence.
SaltX Technology has developed SunCool solar collector which converts solar power into hot and cold water. In hot countries it’s a perfect solution to provide air conditioning while supplying hot water to the tap and showers. In colder climates, solar power still has enough heat to provide hot water efficiently during the day and night. SunCool could be used with other energy storage applications to provide heating and cooling in factories, hotels, restaurants and other facilities. Can you think of ways where SunCool collectors can be used? Would you like to innovate and add other types on energy innovation to improve access to hot showers and air conditioning? Would you like to resell SunCool collectors and monetize this opportunity?

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Here are a few videos explaining how solar water heating works:
An explanation solar water heating
https://youtu.be/M0v0mUHNSxU

Here you can read more about air conditioning power consumption
https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/home-cooling-systems/air-conditioning

Case of the Week: Week 21 - All-year-round greenhouse with no heating cost

liudas@saltxtechnology — Sun, 03 Jun 2018 23:07:51 +0000

Are you interested in the off-grid living and farming? Do you have industrial agriculture facilities? The case of the week at SaltX Labs is all about saving money on greenhouse heating and improving the heating efficiency using SunCool technology.
Heating a square meter of space in an average greenhouse throughout a season costs over $22’000 using propane fuel. It is not an efficient use of energy. Food production is such greenhouses especially contributes to the CO2 emissions into the atmosphere. Geothermal heating using soil as a thermal battery has been gaining a lot of traction in the last years. And for a reason – it can save most of the money spent on fuels. Pipes are laid in soil before building a greenhouse. Then during the summer, excess heat is stored in the ground while during the winter - heat is taken from the soil and distributed in the greenhouse. Such system can be further upgraded using solar collectors.
SaltX Technology has developed SunCool which produces heating and cool very efficiently. In summer, heat can be used to heat the soil very effectively while the cool can be used to reduce the temperature inside of the greenhouse. In winter, cool can be used to cool down the soil providing the heat needed for the plants. In such way the system can be set up in a very efficient and environmentally conscious way. Do you have ideas how to use SunCool by SaltX in the greenhouses? Would you like to monetize this market and help people save money while producing tasty veggies all year round?

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Here are a few videos explaining how district heating works:
An explanation of geothermal heat storage
https://youtu.be/o2NtBCS2_WQ
More detailed description of a geothermal heated greenhouse
https://youtu.be/qA3YGYELZ98
Here you can read more about SunCool by SaltX
http://saltxtechnology.com/applications/suncool

Charging / discharging/ regulation

Daniel — Tue, 29 May 2018 08:14:27 +0000

Hello

I would like to lear more about charging and discharging for my system imagination:

Maximum charging temperature / Minimum charging temperature

As I have learn from previous posts there are various kind of salt and liquids for system which have min/max temperature (delta T…) ranges for given application,

What happened if I continue charging when battery has full capacity ? Does some damage occur?

And what will happened if I try to charge with temperature over the temperature range of salt? If I have salt witch is for 70-90°C. And I will try to charge with for example 150°C?

How quickly can be the battery charged? For example if I have 10kW heat stream, what system size will I need for proper charging?

Regulation

It it possible to regulate reaction or rather to say regulate output? I mean if it is possible to stop reaction? Or somehow slow the reaction to change output? It is possible to start charging/dis from not empty battery?

As I know the temperature on the colder side can be affected , depending how quick the reaction will perform. It this also true on hot side of system? By faster reaction can I get more output (temperature) on warm side?

Battery Capacity

It is possible to measure state of charge of thermal battery?

Case of the Week: Week 20 - District Heating Innovations

liudas@saltxtechnology — Sun, 27 May 2018 13:07:31 +0000

Are you interested in the latest innovation in city and apartment heating? Do you have ideas of how to turn wasted heat into recycled heat? This week’s case is about circular economy and generating heat from previously untapped resources to build and enhance district heating systems.

District heating is similar to an electric grid – it enables the participants to exchange their resources. Combined with heat storage, district heating can be a whole new marketplace to trade heat between the participants. In addition to that, new generation of district heating, called Low-Temperature District Heating is now technologically possible. In earlier times, heat was supplied at 110C in a form of steam. To reach such temperatures, heating plants had to burn fuels and heat transportation required extremely well isolated steel pipes. Low-Temperature District Heating provides water at about 35-55C. The temperature is later increased by using a heat pump. Lower temperatures mean that the source of the heat can be any waste heat from chimneys, gray water pipes, etc. Lower temperature also means that the pipes can be replaced by cheaper plastic pipes that do not need welding and do not corrode.

SaltX Technology for heat storage is a necessary element for a viable marketplace. Households or companies that produce excess heat can store it in SaltX batteries and sell it later when there is a huge demand. In this way SaltX Technology will make a lot of money for the owner of the installation. Do you have ideas about SaltX storage applications in district heating markets? Would you like to monetize this market and help people store and exchange heat?

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Here are a few videos explaining how district heating works:
An explanation of a District Heating system
https://youtu.be/nX6psz8sQnI
Low-Temperature District Heating
https://youtu.be/JRTbzCCvBZ4

Here you can read about E.ON and it’s efforts to make smart grids for balancing energy:
http://ectogrid.com/business-customer

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Energy storage in greenhouses on a commercial scale, prolong harvest periods with a sustainable solution?

JakobLindqvist — Sun, 27 May 2018 11:33:48 +0000

Energy storage in simple greenhouses to prolong the season for growing crops in the spring and fall? Although it could actually increase the period and prevent night frost, its volume and power might have to be to large to make an economical feasible solution for private greenhouses. Thing is, I think poorly insulated standard private greenhouses with one layer glass don't benefit much.

On the large scale though, with better insulation and a real economical case (small scale are rarely heated), solar powered thermal energy storage could be quite beneficial since the temperature probably rise to substantial levels in the ceilings.

The motives on the market are already there since a green populism been in the food market for quite some time now. I refer to locally produced, ecological foods etc. Greenhousing are often fueled with oil, but renewable resources must be more popular in Sweden, however there's a global market aswell. For those interested and proficient in Swedish: https://pub.epsilon.slu.se/12740/7/nilsson_u_etal_151102.pdf.

1. You can find out that most commonly, energy is carried around by water in pipings for these plants. This is great news because if water is the common energy carrier, a SaltX solution is more easily adopted.

2. There's often a water reservoir in these systems to store energy. Great news, there's already a market.

Edit: Jordbruksverket (agricultural agency) claims that 43 percent of Swedish greenhouses are powered by fossil fuels, (2011) although being seven years ago and already by then, down from 77 % in 2001.

There are also various investment subsidies being provided to the Swedish market to reduce and eventually eliminate the fossil fuels and to make agriculture more energy efficient: (page 18 in the pdf shows some statistics 2007-2013 in Swedish...) https://www2.jordbruksverket.se/download/18.1da5a32a14da915f9b8c5d78/1433244455897/ra15_10.pdf

Lastly, I think the marketing value, SaltX being associated with growing, life and crops, to help provide emission free food, could be the greatest value of them all with this idea.

Case of the Week: Week 20 - Off-The-Grid Heating

liudas@saltxtechnology — Sun, 20 May 2018 10:50:03 +0000

This week we continue our focus on home innovation and improvement. Would you like to save money on water heating? Would you like to get higher efficiency from the wood stoves? The following solutions can save thousands of dollars to anyone using local heating!

Wood burning stoves as well as many other types of heaters literally pump money through the chimneys. There is a huge amount of heat that is released into the atmosphere which could be used to heat the rooms or tap water. Off-the-grid innovators have found a way to use soft copper tubing to capture most of the heat that escapes the house. The innovation is very cost efficient and extremely effective. According to one of the videos below – it’s so powerful that it has to be reduced in size to prevent water from boiling in the pipes.

SaltX Technology fits just right into these applications. Most of the systems, especially those off-the-grid do not run 24/7. It means that hot water or hot air supply is interrupted when the stove is not burning. SaltX salts can store the thermal energy and provide heating while the burner is off. Are you interested in off-the-grid living? Would you like to test such a system? Did you consider building it?
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Here are a few videos explaining how off the grid heating works.
Most basic air heating system:
https://youtu.be/QTP3EFSjPtM
Making of chimney heat exchanger for water heating:
https://youtu.be/l5jUUrDle00?t=3m16s
Connecting heat exchanger to the water heating system off-the-grid:
https://youtu.be/AVZCOMWsCxY

Momentum for Change

liudas@saltxtechnology — Tue, 15 May 2018 15:55:49 +0000

If you are working on a sustainable innovation that benefits the planet - check out United Nations' UNFCCC Momentum for Change!

Momentum for Change is an initiative spearheaded by the UN Climate Change secretariat to shine a light on the enormous groundswell of activities underway across the globe that are moving the world toward a highly resilient, low-carbon future. Momentum for Change recognizes innovative and transformative solutions that address both climate change and wider economic, social and environmental challenges.

These solutions are called Lighthouse Activities. They're some of the most practical, scalable and replicable examples of what people, businesses, governments and industries are doing to tackle climate change.

https://vimeo.com/78705262

If you want to get inspired - check out these winner ideas from 2017 that got presented to delegates from around the world in COP23 in Bonn, Germany last year: https://unfccc.int/news/winners-of-2017-un-climate-solutions-awards-announced

More information at: https://unfccc.int/climate-action/momentum-change