A New, Better Way to Desalinate Water
Novel membranes can remove salt from water. A team led by King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST) has shown how ultrathin polymer-based ordered…
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New Device Purifies Saltwater Over a 1000 Times Faster Than Standard Industrial Equipment
The future of desalination: Using a Teflon-like membrane to purify water Water scarcity is a growing problem around the globe. In Africa alone, it is…
From Seawater to Drinking Water at the Push of a Button – With No Filters!
Researchers build a portable desalination unit that generates clear, clean drinking water without the need for filters or high-pressure pumps. MIT researchers have developed a…
Solar-Powered System From MIT Offers a Route to Inexpensive Desalination
Passive solar evaporation system could be used to clean wastewater, provide potable water, or sterilize medical tools in off-grid areas. An estimated two-thirds of humanity…
Simple New Way to Desalinate Water Using Solar Energy
The desalter uses a cylinder and a solar collector. Ural Federal University (UrFU) power engineers have developed a new desalination technology. It will significantly reduce…
Nanoparticles Simplify Desalination: Simultaneously Removing Toxic Metals and Salt to Produce Clean Water
Adding absorbent nanoparticles to polymer membranes simplifies desalination. University of California, Berkeley, chemists have discovered a way to simplify the removal of toxic metals. like…
Making Seawater Drinkable in Minutes: A New Alternative Desalination Membrane
A new alternative seawater desalination membrane to produce drinking water. According to the World Health Organization, about 785 million people around the world lack a…
Crystal Critters: Get Salt Out of Water by Making It Grow “Legs” and Self-Eject
Crystallizing salts can grow “legs,” then tip over and fall away, potentially helping to prevent fouling of metal surfaces, researchers find. About a quarter of…
New Nanoparticle Material Developed for Efficient Water Desalination
Titanium dioxide nanoparticles decorated by gold absorb about 96% of the solar spectrum and turn it into heat. The material can accelerate the evaporation in…
Low-Cost, Highly Efficient Solar-Powered Desalination for Safe Drinking Water
Scientists develop a low-cost, highly efficient technique that uses solar energy to remove salt from seawater, producing safe drinking water. Despite the vast amount of…
High Efficiency at Low Cost: New Catalyst Moves Seawater Desalination, Hydrogen Production Closer to Commercialization
Fast, one-step assembly at room temperature yields high efficiency at low cost. Seawater makes up about 96% of all water on earth, making it a…
Controlling the Nanoscale Structure of Desalination Membranes Is Key for Clean Water
A desalination membrane acts as a filter for salty water: push the water through the membrane, get clean water suitable for agriculture, energy production and…
Nanoscale Control of Desalination Membranes Could Lead to Cheaper Water Filtration
Producing clean water at a lower cost could be on the horizon after researchers from The University of Texas at Austin and Penn State solved…
Desalination Breakthrough Maximizes Flow for Cheaper Water Filtration
Nature has figured out how to make great membranes. Biological membranes let the right stuff into cells while keeping the wrong stuff out. And, as…
The Marangoni Effect Can Be Used to Obtain Freshwater From the Ocean
A study conducted at the Politecnico di Torino, in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and published in the journal Energy and Environmental…
Harnessing Sunlight to Efficiently Make Fresh Drinkable Water From Seawater
Simple, solar-powered water desalination system achieves new level of efficiency in harnessing sunlight to make fresh potable water from seawater. A completely passive solar-powered desalination…
Efficient Seawater Desalination and Hydrogen Production Possible With New Catalyst
New catalyst efficiently produces hydrogen from seawater, holding promise for large-scale hydrogen production, desalination. Seawater is one of the most abundant resources on earth, offering…
Engineers Develop New System to Provide Low-Cost Drinking Water
Technology captures water evaporating from cooling towers; prototype to be installed on MIT’s Central Utility Plant. A new system devised by MIT engineers could provide…
