Entries for Solar Desalination

Novel hydrophobic and omniphobic coatings to improve permeate flux and condensation in an integrated solar-thermal VMD system

The proposed technology is a salinity-gradient solar pond and vacuum freezing ejector absorption seawater desalination hybrid system.

A system that uses solar thermal vacuum tubes and low pressure to generate steam from concentrated solar.

We use ultrafine light absorber nanoparticles dispersed on low-cost nanoscale dielectric antenna to achieve PTE with near 100% efficiency.

Our solution aims at providing a robust, innovative, and functional water desalination system by using our proven solar thermal systems.

We propose solution-based process to fabricate metal-coated anodized aluminum oxide solar desalination device at a low cost.

The proposed system combines solar energy with flash distillation and heat recovery to obtain drinking water from sea-water.

With maximum heat recovery, our multistage photothermal membrane distillation can produce freshwater efficiently by harnessing sunlight.

Supercritical Water Extraction – Enhanced Targeted Recovery (SWEETR) utilizes properties of supercritical water to purify hypersaline brines

A smart chamber that improves the efficiency of thermal desalination and re-purposes the salty water under treatment for energy storage.

Provide the most efficient Solar-Thermal desalination process possible by optimizing harvesting & application of solar energy.

Reversible chemical looping with closed-loop carrier gas to enable pure water production through solar evaporation-dehumidification cycling.

Integration of MED desalination into our distributed scale CSP system, coupled with long duration thermal storage for 24/7 operation.

We propose a solar-driven, non-membrane, non-evaporative desalination system for hypersaline brines capable of high water recovery and ZLD.

A modular, self-sustained membrane distillation crystallization-hybrid CSP/PV system for smart desalination of concentrate streams.

Concentrate sunlight to evaporate water. Reduce chamber wall temperature using heat exchange with the environment to re-condense the water.