METHOD OF CONVERSION OF IONISED MEDIUM ENERGY INTO ELECTRIC ENERGY Russian patent published in 2015 - IPC H01M10/00 

FIELD: power industry.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to methods of obtaining electric energy and can be used for creation of sea power plant for conversion of potential energy of sea water ions to the electric current energy, and also for creation of converters of energy of plasma ions into electric energy. In the electric energy obtaining method consisting in placement of two electrodes in ionised electrically neutral medium, in separation of free charged particles of the ionised electrically neutral medium depending on the charge sign, transfer of charges of charged particles to electrodes and transmission of electric current between electrodes along the external circuit of energy consumer load, separation of charged particles is performed by electric field of the contact potential difference between surfaces of electrodes, and transfer of electric charge from charged particles to electrodes is performed by neutralisation of charged particles on surfaces of electrodes achieved by selection of material of the negative electrode with the electron work function eφ_- greater than the affinity energy S of negative particles (eφ_->S), and a positive electrode with the work function of electron from the surface eφ₊ less than the energy of ionisation eV_i of positive ions (eφ₊<eV_i). The offered method by the operating principle does not restrict the service life of the charge capacitance. When using sea water as electrolyte the energy source is unlimited.

EFFECT: improvement of efficiency of the method of obtaining of electric energy from the natural ionised medium - sea water - which is used as electrolyte.

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