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Ternary hierarchical structure based solar‐driven evaporator for long‐lasting concentrated brine treatment

Wen He, Lei Zhou, Yilan Wang, Lejian Yu, Yaqi Hou, Shaoyang Bi, Miao Wang, Xu Hou

EcoMat· Volume 5· Issue 8
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Abstract Solar‐driven evaporation has been a promising desalination method for treating concentrated seawater, since it is cost‐effectiveness, simplicity, and environmentally friendly. However, this method faces an unavoidable long‐term problem that the salt generated in the evaporation processes would affect and hinder its evaporation efficiency. Because the salt inevitably crystallizes on the surface of photothermal evaporation materials, and this crystallization process increases with time to impair the material area of the sunlight absorption and evaporation. Here, we show a ternary hierarchical structure based solar‐driven evaporator that reduces the evaporation material surface coverage of the salt to get long‐lasting concentrated brine treatment capacity. This evaporator is constructed by plugging vertically arranged hollow tube arrays across a porous plate. The top, middle, and bottom of the evaporator respectively serve as the salt crystallization site, the evaporation site, and the light absorption site. Meanwhile, the self‐cleaning of the evaporator can be achieved by back diffusion of the crystallized salts. As a result, this efficient and durable evaporator exhibits freshwater production of 10.21 kg/(m2·day) in outdoor experiment in the treatment of the concentrated natural seawater (21.3 wt%). image
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OpenAlex topics: Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods · Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems · Membrane Separation Technologies

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Affiliations

State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Engineering Research Center of Electrochemical Technologies of Ministry of Education College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Xiamen University Xiamen China

Research Institute for Biomimetics and Soft Matter, Fujian Provincial Key Laboratory for Soft Functional Materials Research, Jiujiang Research Institute, College of Physical Science and Technology Xiamen University Xiamen China

The Institute of Flexible Electronics (IFE, Future Technologies) Xiamen University Xiamen China

Department of Mechanics Tianjin University Tianjin China

The Higher Educational Key Laboratory for Biomedical Engineering of Fujian Province, Department of Biomaterials, Research Center of Biomedical Engineering of Xiamen College of Materials, Xiamen University Xiamen China

Innovation Laboratory for Sciences and Technologies of Energy Materials of Fujian Province (IKKEM) Xiamen China

Institute of Artificial Intelligence Xiamen University Xiamen China

Funding

Higher Education Discipline Innovation Project · National Key Research and Development Program of China · National Natural Science Foundation of China · Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province

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