Advances in solar evaporator materials for freshwater generation

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (42) ◽  
pp. 24092-24123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sisi Cao ◽  
Qisheng Jiang ◽  
Xuanhao Wu ◽  
Deoukchen Ghim ◽  
Hamed Gholami Derami ◽  
...  

To alleviate the scarcity of clean water, solar steam generation, which utilizes the green and abundant resources of Earth, has attracted considerable attention and been recognized as a sustainable technology to purify seawater and wastewater.

Author(s):  
Wei Li ◽  
Xiaohan Tian ◽  
Xiaofeng Li ◽  
Shuang Han ◽  
Changjun Li ◽  
...  

Although solar steam generation is a promising water purification approach for alleviating global shortage of clean water, the water evaporation rate of non-organic systems is still far from perfection. Herein,...


2019 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 429-446 ◽  
Author(s):  
Panpan Zhang ◽  
Qihua Liao ◽  
Houze Yao ◽  
Yaxin Huang ◽  
Huhu Cheng ◽  
...  

Author(s):  
V. Baskaran ◽  
R. Saravanane

Abstract Direct Solar Steam Generation (DSSG) system is an emerging technique in the field of desalination for yielding sustainable clean water. This investigation propagates through the use of nanoscale absorbers (montmorillonite) for sturdy desalination because of their excellent photo thermal conversation of nanoparticles. The solar absorber was dispersed in sea water in liquid type rather than fixed or floating type. Nanoparticles of chemical composition were employed by the researchers from starting to the present day, which includes carbon nanotubes, graphene oxide, etc. Inspired by nature and keeping in mind an eco-friendly technique, here we considered montmorillonite clay nanoparticles of natural origin. The experiment was conducted for an operational period of 14 days with a yield of 5.33–6.45 kg/m2/day with an evaporation rate of 0.70, 1.42 and 4.47 kg/m2.hr under 1-, 2- and 4-sun irradiance. The clean water output parameters was validated with WHO standards to satisfy potable water characteristics. The water characteristics before desalination for turbidity, pH, and Cl–, Na+ and TDS were found to be 48.50, 8.7, and 18,400, 12,120, 20,400 mg/L respectively; after desalination they were found to be 0.30, 6.65, 12, 4.5 and 52 mg/L respectively. This work focuses on current water scarcity problem and suggest a way to survival by using naturally available, low cost material.


Author(s):  
Xiuli Dong ◽  
Shouwei Gao ◽  
Shuhui Li ◽  
Tianxue Zhu ◽  
Jianying Huang ◽  
...  

The design principles, evaporation systems and functional designs towards interfacial solar steam generation for clean water production.


Author(s):  
Mantang He ◽  
Huijie Liu ◽  
Liming Wang ◽  
Xiaohong Qin ◽  
Jianyong Yu

Solar steam generation is an emerging technology for clean water production due to easy accessibility and inexhaustible sunlight. However, the lack of both anti-oil-fouling ability and stretchability simultaneously has hindered...


Author(s):  
Muhammad Sultan Irshad ◽  
Xianbao Wang ◽  
Misbah Sehar Abbasi ◽  
Naila Arshad ◽  
Zihe Chen ◽  
...  

2021 ◽  
pp. 2100159
Author(s):  
Tien Thanh Pham ◽  
Trung Duc Dao ◽  
Thi An Hang Nguyen ◽  
Dinh Dat Pham ◽  
Kotaro Kajikawa ◽  
...  

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