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…
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Chemical engineers from MIT have developed an efficient shockwave-based process to treat salty, brackish or contaminated water to make it usable. As the availability of…
Natasha Wright, an MIT PhD student in mechanical engineering, has designed a solar powered system that makes water safe to drink for rural, off-grid Indian…
A newly published study reveals how electrodialysis can provide cost-effective treatment of salty water from oil and gas wells. The boom in oil and gas…
A newly published study from MIT shows that a desalination technology powered by solar panels could provide enough clean drinking water for many of the…