What is it about?
The article lays the path for efficiency improvement for interfacial evaporation Devices. Floatable devices with tree-like designs have better performance. The absorber and condenser designs are equally essential for ISDE water production devices. This article will be helpful for the researchers in improving devices output and coming up with a sustainable desalination and water treatment.
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Why is it important?
Overall, this article discusses materials, designs, and engineering to improve the working efficiency of the interfacial evaporators. This work discussed how to improve solar absorbance and reduce prevailing losses in the system, which eventually sums up an efficient process. Finally, some successful devices showing water production opportunities and scaling-up potential have been discussed. In lab-scale operations, some devices have achieved efficiencies above 90% and even >100% efficiencies at lower solar radiation by gaining energy from the environment. This review will help the researchers better understand the topic and improve the device's performance as a sustainable water production system through desalination and water treatment.
Perspectives
Water production through evaporation with in-depth material and process knowledge is now a feasible solution to the prevailing water crisis. This article compiled innovative methods and configurations to achieve higher energy utilization efficiency, which can further be translated to successful water production devices. Some standard designs of the devices that should be used to make other innovative devices were also discussed in the later part of the article.
Mr. Utkarsh Misra
Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
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This page is a summary of: Solar interfacial evaporation devices for desalination and water treatment: Perspective and future, Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, May 2024, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.cis.2024.103154.
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