The Great Salt Lake
Osmotic Power Potential
Abstract:
This is
a
proposal to develop a new source of renewable
energy relying on
hypersaline
osmotic power generation technology that has been developed by MIK Technology
, potentially
for
generating up to 400 megawatts of sustainable power from the Great Salt Lake, Utah
,
operating
isothermally
with
out
generating
any
emission
s
.
The proposed technology
would
reduce
Utah State
’s
demand for coal by 10% or
natural gas by 50%
, using
a
clean
and safe renewable
source of energy.
It should also be clear that the seawater pumping pressure in the system is equivalent to the
osmotic pressure of the diluted seawater at the point of discharge from the membrane that will then
enter the turbine. In another
words, the seawater pump delivery must have a pressure of 196
.5
psi,
which is equivalent to the osmotic pressure of the 1.75 percent salt concentration.
MIK Technology
ISO
(
1
)
osmotic
salinity power
is
unlike any other
technology
(
2
, 3
),
a patent
pending technology that promotes the concept of Large Scale Renewable Energy (LSRE) from hyper
saline waters.
Scientifically
,
MIK Technology invention
introduces a unique process concept employing a series of hydraulic cycles, operating in symbio
tic mode within a concentration potential
field to exploit the chemical potential dissimilarity of solutions. The proposed isothermal osmotic
energy cycle approaches reversibility and is analogous, in its thermodynamic concept, to the Carnot
Cycle. We named it the “ISO Cycle," also the “Reversible Liquid Power Cycle.”
