Fish gill-inspired aerogel tackles long-standing issue in solar desalination
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Fish gill-inspired aerogel tackles long-standing issue in solar desalination
As freshwater scarcity becomes more prevalent, solar evaporation is drawing attention as a promising solution. This process uses sunlight to heat the surface of salty or contaminated water, turning it into vapor that can be collected as clean water when it condenses.
A solar evaporator gets the salt to separate and fall alone to treat brine The entry Create a solar evaporator that does something curious with salt: during the day pushes it to the edges and at night leaves it was first published in Research and Development.
Fish Gills Inspire A Sunlight-Powered Way To Turn Salty Water Fresh
A lightweight material inspired by fish gills could help solve a problem in solar desalination: salt deposits that gradually stop devices from working. Researchers in Japan have developed a porous material that uses sunlight to evaporate water while resisting salt buildup. In laboratory tests, it kept working even when the water was nearly six times […]
Salt is the brake block of many solar evaporators: when evaporating, it remains on the surface and can block water production. A biomass aerosol inspired by fish gills now combines electric ion rejection with a thin water film. In the laboratory, it evaporated 2,88 kilograms of water per square meter per hour and remained in 20 percent brine 24 hours [...] The article Fish gill principle protects solar evaporators from salt crusts first appeared…
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