Advances in desalination technology and its environmental and economic assessment

Challenges and opportunities for CO2 electroreduction from a process systems engineering perspective

“…The availability of water might thus be limited, with more intense competition for it among different sectors (domestic, agricultural, industrial). Desalination could be used to mitigate this risk and provide fresh water for these technologies in places with water supply issues, but this would further increase the load on the energy inputs and possibly have environmental side effects (Cai et al, 2023). The electrolyte must also be taken into consideration, as it will not only be part of the bill of materials, but might introduce contaminants in the system (Wuttig and Surendranath, 2015).…”

Modeling of the synergistic anti-reflection effect in gradient refractive index films integrated with subwavelength structures for photothermal conversion

“…Photothermal materials typically refer to a category of materials that can convert light energy into thermal energy through their intrinsic photothermal conversion mechanism under near-infrared (NIR) or solar light irradiation. 1 In the field of solar energy utilization, due to their direct, efficient, controllable, and environmentally friendly advantages, they are extensively applied in areas such as seawater desalination, 2 steam power generation, 3 photothermal catalysis, 4 and medical sterilization. 5 However, most photothermal materials always suffer from a low solar-thermal conversion efficiency.…”

Roof tile-inspired 3D arch evaporators based on Ti3C2Tx/MoSe2 photothermal nanocomposites for efficient solar desalination

“…In this context, diversified water purification technologies have been developed. 3,7 Compared with general water purification methods, interfacial photothermal water evaporation uses solar energy as the input energy, 8 which can maximize the utilization efficiency of solar energy and effectively inhibit heat loss simultaneously reducing energy consumption. 9,10 Nevertheless, the method of desalination by interfacial photothermal water evaporation still has the problem of blocking the water transport channel after the salt precipitation, which reduces the evaporation rate of the evaporator.…”