Table 5.
Total mean power and energy recovered from the osmotic engine when combining SPA as polyelectrolyte and SBE and SBAm as antipolyelectrolyte hydrogel particles.
Connection | Sample Code | Article Size of Sulfobetaine Hydrogel (µm) | Load (kPa) |
(W × 10−6) |
E, 1 h (J × 10−3) |
, 1 kg (mW kg−1) | E, 1 h, 1 kg (J kg−1) |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
A | SPA@SBE-3.0 | 500 | 3.0 | 3.74 ± 0.05 | 13.39 ± 0.17 | 161.61 ± 0.09 | 581.14 ± 0.35 |
A | SPA@SBAm-3.0 | 500 | 3.0 | 13.53 ± 0.15 | 48.84 ± 0.54 | 186.31 ± 0.38 | 670.04 ± 1.37 |