Dissemination

Broadcast by RAI 3 (one of the three public Italian TVs) in a program called "Geo scienza", on march 15, at 17.00. It has been seen by 540 000 people on average, with a maximum of 700 000.

You can find it here in italian or here with english subtitles.

October 15th, 2010
The kickoff of the Capmix project was the object of an article in the local newspaper: Leeuwarder Courant.
You can find the article in Dutch here.

November 17th, 2010
Blue energy in general was presented during the ''Energy for the Future'' seminar organized at Wageningen (Netherlands) organized by the Studium Generale of Wageningen UR.
This workshop gathered 30 students around posters but also prototypes of new energy related technologies.
Here is the poster comparing Blue Energy with traditionnal Hydro-power.

June 2nd, 2011
The italian newspaper ''Il sole 24 Ore'' published an article about Capmix in its science supplement ''Nova24''.
A copy of the article (in italian) can be found here.

Wetsus Congress October 18th & 19th, 2010
Doriano Brogioli from the University of Milano-Bicocca, gave the first official Capmix presentation during the Wetsus congress.
About 800 people visited the Wetsus Congress 2010 on October 18 and 19, 2010. Last year we welcomed over 600 guests. Decision makers from the international water sector, politicians, researchers and entrepreneurs exchanged views, ideas and their networks.

4th International Congress on Energy and Environmental Engineering and Management
Angel Delgado presented his work during an oral presentation at the 4th International Congress on Energy and Environment Engineering and Management (May 2011 in Merida, Spain). The presentation was entitled: Cell Model Method Applied to the Modelling of Blue Energy Production by Capacitive Mixing.

2nd International Symposium on enhanced electrochemical capacitors
Capacitive energy extraction based on donnan potential was presented by Wetsus in Poznan during the 2nd international symposium on enhanced electrochemical capacitors (June 12-16 2011). The symposium gathered around 120 people from all over the world to discuss advances in the world of supercapacitors. The Capmix technology was presented there as an alternative supercapacitor-like system.

25th Conference of the European Colloid and Interface Society
Angel Delgado gave a keynote lecture entitled: Electrokinetic methods applied to the evaluation of energy extraction from water salinity differences at the 25th Conference of the European Colloid and Interface Society in September 2011 in Berlin, Germany.

A prototype cell for extracting energy from a water salinity difference by means of double layer expansion in nanoporous carbon electrodes
D. Brogioli, R. Zhao and P.M. Biesheuvel
Energy Environ. Sci., 2011
DOI: 10.1039/C0EE00524J

If you are interrested in claculating how much energy you can extract from the mixcing of salt solutions or if you want to calculate the free energy contained in these solutions here are two links that you can use:

Energy extracted
Free energy

These webpages were realised by Doriano Brogioli from the University of Milano-Biccoca member of the Capmix consortium.