期刊
APPLIED THERMAL ENGINEERING
卷 187, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2020.116515
关键词
Porosity; Pore size; Salt-rejecting; Solar desalination; Pore-forming agent
资金
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [2017XKZD02]
The research optimized the porous structure of a salt-rejecting solar evaporator to achieve continuous salt rejection in a high-salinity environment, resulting in stable evaporation rate and high efficiency.
Solar interfacial evaporation technology has been advanced rapidly in recent years due to its high efficiency and environment friendliness. However, the salt accumulation in the evaporation surface severely limits the stable evaporation performance of interfacial evaporator, especially for high-salinity brine. Here, we prepared a salt-rejecting solar evaporator with carbon blacks deposited on the super-hydrophilic polystyrene/lignocellulose (PS/LF) skeleton. By analyzing the factors that affect antifouling ability of evaporators, like the skeleton porosity and pore size, we obtained a continuous salt-rejecting porous structure with the porosity of about 70.4% and the pore size of 150-300 mu m. This evaporator with optimized porous structure could achieve continuous salt rejection in the high-salinity environment (15% NaCl), and exhibit a stable evaporation rate of 1.90 kg.m(-2).h(-1) and a high evaporation efficiency of 85.5% under a 1.5-sun irradiation. The good salt-rejecting property comes from the high porosity of evaporator which means numerous water channels to promote salt exchange, and large pores which means large hydraulic diameter and small tortuosity of pore channels to shorten the migration distance of salt ions back to bulk water. These two factors together promote the rapid reflux of salt ions, enabling the continuously self-cleaning of evaporator. Given the salt accumulation on the surface could contaminate the sunlight absorption, the high evaporation efficiency of the evaporator benefits from the salt rejecting. At the same time, the thermal insulation structure which was used to support the evaporator further ensures the high evaporation efficiency.
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