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A review of the feasibility of using a system based upon photobiology as a large scale source of renewable energy

Abstract

This report has reviewed critically the feasibility of using a Photobiological system to produce energy on a commercial scale. Two possible candidates have been identified. The first is to use our knowledge of the initial light-driven charge separation reaction in photosynthesis as a blue-print on which chemists could base the design of more efficient second generation solar cells. The details of this possibility are being considered in a separate report. The second is to harness the ability of anaerobic photosynthetic bacteria to support light-driven hydrogen production. This second option is the definite front runner, however as with other schemes to harness solar energy it does have the drawback that large surface areas will be required in order to produce commercially significant quantities of energy. A detailed evaluation of photobiological hydrogen production has been presented. (author).
Publication Date:
Jul 01, 1992
Product Type:
Technical Report
Report Number:
ETSU-S-1329
Reference Number:
SCA: 140505; 080106; PA: GB-92:053488; SN: 93000928042
Resource Relation:
Other Information: PBD: 1992
Subject:
14 SOLAR ENERGY; 08 HYDROGEN; HYDROGEN PRODUCTION; BACTERIA; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; ANAEROBIC CONDITIONS; SOLAR CELLS; POWER GENERATION; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; SOLAR ENERGY; BIOMASS; PHOTOELECTRIC CELLS; ECONOMICS; CONSTRAINTS; 140505; 080106; PHOTOCHEMICAL, PHOTOBIOLOGICAL, AND THERMOCHEMICAL CONVERSION; BIOSYNTHESIS AND PHOTOCHEMICAL PROCESSES
OSTI ID:
10120660
Research Organizations:
Renewable Energy Research and Development Programme, Energy Technology Support Unit (ETSU), Department of Trade and Industry (United Kingdom)
Country of Origin:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Other Identifying Numbers:
Other: ON: DE93760822; TRN: GB9253488
Submitting Site:
GB
Size:
44 p.
Announcement Date:
Feb 23, 1993

Citation Formats

Cogdell, R J, and Hawthornthwaite, A M. A review of the feasibility of using a system based upon photobiology as a large scale source of renewable energy. United Kingdom: N. p., 1992. Web.
Cogdell, R J, & Hawthornthwaite, A M. A review of the feasibility of using a system based upon photobiology as a large scale source of renewable energy. United Kingdom.
Cogdell, R J, and Hawthornthwaite, A M. 1992. "A review of the feasibility of using a system based upon photobiology as a large scale source of renewable energy." United Kingdom.
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title = {A review of the feasibility of using a system based upon photobiology as a large scale source of renewable energy}
author = {Cogdell, R J, and Hawthornthwaite, A M}
abstractNote = {This report has reviewed critically the feasibility of using a Photobiological system to produce energy on a commercial scale. Two possible candidates have been identified. The first is to use our knowledge of the initial light-driven charge separation reaction in photosynthesis as a blue-print on which chemists could base the design of more efficient second generation solar cells. The details of this possibility are being considered in a separate report. The second is to harness the ability of anaerobic photosynthetic bacteria to support light-driven hydrogen production. This second option is the definite front runner, however as with other schemes to harness solar energy it does have the drawback that large surface areas will be required in order to produce commercially significant quantities of energy. A detailed evaluation of photobiological hydrogen production has been presented. (author).}
place = {United Kingdom}
year = {1992}
month = {Jul}
}