Dodón Alisson, Quintero Vanessa, Chen Austin Miguel, Mora Dafni
Research Group in Energy and Comfort in Bioclimatic Buildings, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá, Panama City 0819, Panama.
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Universidad Tecnológica de Panamá, Panama City 0819, Panama.
Biomimetics (Basel). 2021 Aug 26;6(3):51. doi: 10.3390/biomimetics6030051.
This work has its origin in the growing demands of energy regulations to meet future local targets and to propose a global implementation framework. A literature review related to conventional electrical energy storage systems has been carried out, presenting different cases analyzed at building scale to deepen in nature-inspired processes that propose reductions in environmental impact and present improvements in these storage devices. The use of batteries, especially lithium-ion batteries, is the most prominent among the electrical storage applications; however, improvements have been proposed through hydrogen batteries or the implementation of more environmentally friendly materials to manufacture the electrodes. In this sense, oriented to creating systems designed to protect the environment, important advances have been made in the development of storage systems based on biomimetic strategies. The latter range from the generation of energy through the respiratory processes of microorganisms to the recreation of the generation, storage, and release of energy using the thermoelectric and thermoregulatory characteristics of some insects. These facts show that the trend in research towards improving existing systems continues but reinforces the idea that new solutions must be environmentally friendly, so there is still a long way to improving the processes established thus far.
这项工作源于能源法规日益增长的需求，即满足未来的本地目标并提出一个全球实施框架。已对与传统电能存储系统相关的文献进行了综述，介绍了在建筑规模上分析的不同案例，以深入研究受自然启发的过程，这些过程旨在减少环境影响并改善这些存储设备。电池的使用，尤其是锂离子电池，在电能存储应用中最为突出；然而，人们已提出通过氢电池或采用更环保的材料来制造电极以进行改进。从这个意义上讲，为创建旨在保护环境的系统，基于仿生策略的存储系统开发已取得重要进展。后者的范围从通过微生物的呼吸过程产生能量，到利用某些昆虫的热电和温度调节特性来再现能量的产生、存储和释放。这些事实表明，改进现有系统的研究趋势仍在继续，但强化了新解决方案必须环保的观念，因此距离改进迄今为止已确立的过程仍有很长的路要走。
