Publications by Enrico Chinello

A versatile and membrane-less electrochemical reactor for the electrolysis of water and brine

Demetri Psaltis, Christophe Moser, Pooria Hadikhani, Enrico Chinello

Renewables challenge the management of energy supply and demand due to their intermittency. A promising solution is the direct conversion of the excess electrical energy into valuable chemicals in electrochemical reactors that are inexpensive, scalable, an ...

2019

A comparative performance analysis of stand-alone, off-grid solar-powered sodium hypochlorite generators

Demetri Psaltis, Antonin Faes, Christophe Moser, Miguel Antonio Modestino, Enrico Chinello, Laurent Coulot

Sodium hypochlorite (NaClO) is a chemical commodity widely employed as a disinfection agent in water treatment applications. Its production commonly follows electrochemical routes in an undivided reactor. Powering the process with photovoltaic (PV) electri ...

2019

Solar-Electrochemical Devices for Water Splitting and Chlorine Generation

Enrico Chinello

Solar technologies hold the potential to ultimately counteract the effects of climate change. Nevertheless, the intermittency of sunlight poses technical challenges regarding the storage of the surplus production and the supply of the deficit. The generat ...

EPFL2019

Solar-Electrochemical Platforms for Sodium Hypochlorite Generation in Developing Countries

Demetri Psaltis, Christophe Moser, Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Hashemi, Enrico Chinello

On-site generation of sodium hypochlorite (NaClO) holds the potential to bring an efficient and cost-effective water disinfection method to isolated and remote locations. Solar-driven, stand-alone reactors could provide those communities full independence ...

ELECTROCHEMICAL SOC INC2019

Pathways to Electrochemical Solar-Hydrogen Technologies

Sophia Haussener, Corsin Battaglia, Esther Alarcon Llado, Jan-Willem Alexander Schüttauf, Miguel Antonio Modestino, Seyyed Mohammad Hosseini Hashemi, Enrico Chinello, Vincent Artero

2018

Solar-to-Hydrogen Production at 14.2% Efficiency with Silicon Photovoltaics and Earth-Abundant Electrocatalysts

Christophe Ballif, Demetri Psaltis, Christophe Moser, Matthieu Despeisse, Antonin Faes, Enrico Chinello, Jan-Willem Alexander Schüttauf, Julien Claude Bailat, Miguel Antonio Modestino, Antonio Delfino

Affordable, stable and earth-abundant photo-electrochemical materials are indispensable for the large-scale implementation of sunlight-driven hydrogen production. Here we present an intrinsically stable and scalable solar water splitting device that is ful ...

Electrochemical Society2016