Journal
ENERGY & ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
Volume 14, Issue 4, Pages 2451-2459Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/d1ee00113b
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Funding
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21473045, 51772066]
- State Key Laboratory of Urban Water Resource and Environment [2018DX04]
- Canada Research Chairs program
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The study presents a strategy for sustainable solar steam generation from seawater which effectively addresses salt accumulation and evaporation rate decline issues, maintaining a high evaporation rate even under extreme conditions. This provides an effective solution for long-term sustainable desalination.
Solar steam generation (SSG) is a promising approach to address the global shortage of freshwater by seawater treatment, but commonly suffers from salt-accumulation related issues, drastically reducing the operational efficiency and lifetime of SSG systems. Herein, we propose a strategy for sustainable SSG from seawater, enabling powerful self-salt-discharge and self-water-pumping by constructing a closed loop between water and salt. As a result, besides an evaporation rate as high as 2.8 kg m(-2) h(-1) (under one sun), neither salt accumulation nor evaporation rate decline is observed upon long-term cycling of over one month or constant floating on seawater over eight months. Even upon continuous desalination in a highly concentrated solution (20 wt% NaCl) for over 400 h or under high-intensity irradiation for over 12 h, the high evaporation rate is successfully maintained. This work thus provides an effective solution for salt accumulation, addressing the top challenge for long-term sustainable desalination.
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