Resonant energy transfer enhances solar thermal desalination

Abstract

Water production from solar thermal desalination is limited by the energy consumption of phase change. Resonant heat exchange between matched saline feed and purified distillate flow rates enables optimized recovery of vaporization energy.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2020
Source ID
10.1039/c9ee03256h

Entities

People

  • Alessandro Alabastri
  • Ifeoluwa Adebiyi
  • Jordin Metz
  • Naomi J. Halas
  • Oara Neumann
  • Peter Nordlander
  • Pratiksha D Dongare

Organizations

  • Air Force Office of Scientific Research
  • Houston Community College System
  • National Science Foundation Directorate for Engineering
  • Rice University
  • Robert A. Welch Foundation
  • United States Army
  • Yusuf Hamied Department of Chemistry

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Combustion and Flow Dynamics.
  • Polar and Arctic Studies
  • Solar Physics