Sentences with phrase «conversion efficiency»

In the paper, the team reports the overall electrical - to - chemical power conversion efficiency of the system at 64 per cent.

The best light - to - energy conversion efficiency we've reached so far is 1 %, which is well below the usual 10 - 15 % efficiency of commercial silicon solar cells.

The composite material leads to a power conversion efficiency of up to 4.2 %, which is a record value for this class of materials.

Even without clean energy, the electric car is more efficient overall because of the higher conversion efficiency of modern power plants compared to the internal combustion engine.

So decreasing the amount of methane they produce should improve feed conversion efficiency and so could be an improvement that pays for itself even without considering climate benefits.

The team will continue to design solar cells, and assess their performance based on conversion efficiency, working towards a highly efficient solar cell for low - cost energy production.

They showed they could use sodium to access these channels and send electrons quickly through the material, driving up the heat conversion efficiency.

The higher operating temperature leads to higher overall conversion efficiencies, thus reducing the cost of electricity.

Its current products have conversion efficiency rates of 10.5 percent.

First, as already described in our previous post, there are conversion efficiency requirements that the PV systems have to hit, depending on what PV technology is used.

It sets out high standards for PV conversion efficiency, decay ratio and many other of the chief specifications related to efficient PV plants.

Each grain had multiple facets that it turns out had varying conversion efficiencies.

New materials technology has boosted the power conversion efficiency of cheap next - generation solar cells.

A 1 kW wind turbine at 30 % capacity factor yields a barrel - equivalent in 235 days (78 days if you assume 33 % conversion efficiency of oil to electricity).

What is particularly important is that the whole operation was carried out while preserving very high conversion efficiency.

If the lead - based particles work inside solar cells as well as they do in the lab, they could boost the solar conversion efficiency from a best of about 32 % today to perhaps as much as 66 %, enough to slash the cost of solar power.

And it did so in a remarkably efficient way, converting 5 % of the energy in sunlight that hit it into hydrogen fuel, compared to a 1 % sunlight - to - chemical - energy conversion efficiency in plants.

Crystalline silicon isn't the most efficient semiconducting material; researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado, have achieved more than 16 % sunlight - to - hydrogen conversion efficiency using gallium, indium and arsenide.

Using a newly developed fabrication method, a research team has attained better than a 15 - percent energy conversion efficiency from perovskite solar cells larger than one square centimeter area.

Combined with lenses or mirrors that concentrated sunlight before striking the cell, they developed solar cells with conversion efficiencies as high as 28 %, compared to about 10 % in the early 1970s.

Such low conversion efficiencies explain why it takes a large amount of productive land to yield a small amount of bioenergy, and why bioenergy can so greatly increase the global competition for land.

Solar technology has come a long way, with some solar cells able to achieve conversion efficiencies of close to 50 percent in lab settings, but researchers at Vanderbuilt University found that combining both the power of photosynthesis in spinach with the photovoltaic power of silicon could create a solar cell that packs an extra punch.

One milestone they have been unsuccessfully trying to reach is 50 percent conversion efficiency of solar cells.

Crystalline silicon isn't the most efficient semiconducting material; researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colo., have achieved more than 16 percent sunlight - to - hydrogen conversion efficiency using gallium, indium and arsenide.

We are even seeing some investments, such as recently by Jinko (JKS), in early - stage technology like perovskites, a low - cost solar cell material that could boost solar conversion efficiency by acting as a tandem layer on top of conventional silicon cells.

The discovery means solar cell manufacturers can create stacked solar cells that can handle high - intensity solar energies without losing voltage at the connecting junctions, potentially improving conversion efficiency.

First Solar has improved the efficiency in its solar panels, boosting conversion efficiency to 14.4 % and finally getting into the 14 % to 16 % range that many of its low - cost Chinese solar - panel manufacturer rivals manage to achieve.

The semi-transparent solar cells made with the TTEs exhibited an average power conversion efficiency as high as 13.3 %, reflecting 85.5 % of incoming infrared light.

(Rising solar cell conversion efficiencies, expanding production bases, and better supply chains are helping to drive solar energy return on energy invested higher.

«William's project deals with the heart of the issue in solar technology — increasing conversion efficiency and yields, and lowering the cost of solar electricity.

TOKYO, Feb 12, 2018 — NEC Corporation and Tohoku University applied new technologies developed by NEC, which use AI to predict the characteristics of unknown materials, to the joint development of cutting edge thermoelectric conversion technology known as a thermoelectric (TE) device (1) using spin current (2), and achieved 100 times better thermoelectric conversion efficiency over the course of approximately 1 year.

Such low conversion efficiencies explain why it takes a large amount of productive land to yield a small amount of bioenergy, and why bioenergy can so greatly increase global competition for land.

First Solar was down 5 %, despite achieving world record thin film module conversion efficiency and pricing its IPO for 8point3, a yieldco formed in conjunction with SunPower.

«It is widely considered that such «Artificial Photosynthesis» processes need to achieve an energy conversion efficiency exceeding 10 % to have practical impact,» MacFarlane and colleagues reported in their study, which was published in the journal Energy & Environmental Science on Aug. 11.

This new work, described in a study published in the journal Energy and Environmental Science, is the first to successfully demonstrate the approach of going from carbon dioxide directly to target products, namely ethanol and ethylene, at energy conversion efficiencies rivaling natural counterparts.

Nevertheless, substantial progress was achieved for the clean processes over the last years, for example in the framework of the EU - funded research project SolarJET, the entire production chain to clean jet fuel (kerosene) via thermochemical splitting of water and carbon - dioxide was demonstrated and world record energy conversion efficiencies above 5 % (solar - to - H2 / CO) have been achieved.

«(Is it) a more bullish outlook from Kiwi dairy companies, and superior conversion efficiency — or does it reflect waning leverage and value capture on this side of the Tasman?»

However, it is important to remember that although blue LEDs have a higher electrical conversion efficiency compared with red LEDs, blue light is a higher energy light, which increases energy consumption as higher proportions of blue are used.»

At an applied potential of 0.3 volt, chemically modified n - type TiO2 performs water splitting with a total conversion efficiency of 11 % and a maximum photoconversion efficiency of 8.35 % when illuminated at 40 milliwatts per square centimeter.

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Physical chemist Michael Grätzel at the Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne in Switzerland says that the results «are fundamental work that shows that nanotubes might get you a better conversion efficiency than prior approaches».

Diverse substrates require a range of different pre-treatments to improve the performance of the rapid digestion process to deliver the highest possible conversion efficiency.

Capital investment at the Greatham site has been made on process conversion efficiency improvements transforming the site to world - class levels and on upgrading infrastructure and EHS improvements.

Bao said photocatalytic water - splitting experiments have been tried since the 1970s, but this was the first to use cobalt oxide and the first to use neutral water under visible light at a high energy conversion efficiency without co-catalysts or sacrificial chemicals.

New «artificial leaf» technologies use sunlight to split water into hydrogen and oxygen, then feed the hydrogen to bacteria that make energy - storing alcohol — at energy conversion efficiencies approaching 10 times that of nature's version.