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Electrical energy storage with engineered biological systems
The availability of renewable energy technologies is increasing dramatically across the globe thanks to their growing maturity. However, large scale electrical energy storage and retrieval will almost certainly be a required in order to raise the penetration of renewable sources into the grid. No pr...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6499964/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31073327 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13036-019-0162-7 |
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author | Salimijazi, Farshid Parra, Erika Barstow, Buz |
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description | The availability of renewable energy technologies is increasing dramatically across the globe thanks to their growing maturity. However, large scale electrical energy storage and retrieval will almost certainly be a required in order to raise the penetration of renewable sources into the grid. No present energy storage technology has the perfect combination of high power and energy density, low financial and environmental cost, lack of site restrictions, long cycle and calendar lifespan, easy materials availability, and fast response time. Engineered electroactive microbes could address many of the limitations of current energy storage technologies by enabling rewired carbon fixation, a process that spatially separates reactions that are normally carried out together in a photosynthetic cell and replaces the least efficient with non-biological equivalents. If successful, this could allow storage of renewable electricity through electrochemical or enzymatic fixation of carbon dioxide and subsequent storage as carbon-based energy storage molecules including hydrocarbons and non-volatile polymers at high efficiency. In this article we compile performance data on biological and non-biological component choices for rewired carbon fixation systems and identify pressing research and engineering challenges. |
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spelling | pubmed-64999642019-05-09 Electrical energy storage with engineered biological systems Salimijazi, Farshid Parra, Erika Barstow, Buz J Biol Eng Review The availability of renewable energy technologies is increasing dramatically across the globe thanks to their growing maturity. However, large scale electrical energy storage and retrieval will almost certainly be a required in order to raise the penetration of renewable sources into the grid. No present energy storage technology has the perfect combination of high power and energy density, low financial and environmental cost, lack of site restrictions, long cycle and calendar lifespan, easy materials availability, and fast response time. Engineered electroactive microbes could address many of the limitations of current energy storage technologies by enabling rewired carbon fixation, a process that spatially separates reactions that are normally carried out together in a photosynthetic cell and replaces the least efficient with non-biological equivalents. If successful, this could allow storage of renewable electricity through electrochemical or enzymatic fixation of carbon dioxide and subsequent storage as carbon-based energy storage molecules including hydrocarbons and non-volatile polymers at high efficiency. In this article we compile performance data on biological and non-biological component choices for rewired carbon fixation systems and identify pressing research and engineering challenges. BioMed Central 2019-05-03 /pmc/articles/PMC6499964/ /pubmed/31073327 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13036-019-0162-7 Text en © The Author(s). 2019 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Review Salimijazi, Farshid Parra, Erika Barstow, Buz Electrical energy storage with engineered biological systems |
title | Electrical energy storage with engineered biological systems |
title_full | Electrical energy storage with engineered biological systems |
title_fullStr | Electrical energy storage with engineered biological systems |
title_full_unstemmed | Electrical energy storage with engineered biological systems |
title_short | Electrical energy storage with engineered biological systems |
title_sort | electrical energy storage with engineered biological systems |
topic | Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6499964/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31073327 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13036-019-0162-7 |
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