Contactless steam generation and superheating under one sun illumination
Steam generation using solar energy provides the basis for many sustainable desalination, sanitization, and process heating technologies. Recently, interest has arisen for low-cost floating structures that absorb solar radiation and transfer energy to water via thermal conduction, driving evaporatio...
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| author | Cooper, Thomas A Zandavi, Seyed Hadi Ni, George Wei Tsurimaki, Yoichiro Huang, Yi Boriskina, Svetlana V Chen, Gang |
| author2 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering |
| author_facet | Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering Cooper, Thomas A Zandavi, Seyed Hadi Ni, George Wei Tsurimaki, Yoichiro Huang, Yi Boriskina, Svetlana V Chen, Gang |
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| description | Steam generation using solar energy provides the basis for many sustainable desalination, sanitization, and process heating technologies. Recently, interest has arisen for low-cost floating structures that absorb solar radiation and transfer energy to water via thermal conduction, driving evaporation. However, contact between water and the structure leads to fouling and pins the vapour temperature near the boiling point. Here we demonstrate solar-driven evaporation using a structure not in contact with water. The structure absorbs solar radiation and re-radiates infrared photons, which are directly absorbed by the water within a sub-100 μm penetration depth. Due to the physical separation from the water, fouling is entirely avoided. Due to the thermal separation, the structure is no longer pinned at the boiling point, and is used to superheat the generated steam. We generate steam with temperatures up to 133 °C, demonstrating superheated steam in a non-pressurized system under one sun illumination. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1289132022-10-01T01:08:56Z Contactless steam generation and superheating under one sun illumination Cooper, Thomas A Zandavi, Seyed Hadi Ni, George Wei Tsurimaki, Yoichiro Huang, Yi Boriskina, Svetlana V Chen, Gang Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering Steam generation using solar energy provides the basis for many sustainable desalination, sanitization, and process heating technologies. Recently, interest has arisen for low-cost floating structures that absorb solar radiation and transfer energy to water via thermal conduction, driving evaporation. However, contact between water and the structure leads to fouling and pins the vapour temperature near the boiling point. Here we demonstrate solar-driven evaporation using a structure not in contact with water. The structure absorbs solar radiation and re-radiates infrared photons, which are directly absorbed by the water within a sub-100 μm penetration depth. Due to the physical separation from the water, fouling is entirely avoided. Due to the thermal separation, the structure is no longer pinned at the boiling point, and is used to superheat the generated steam. We generate steam with temperatures up to 133 °C, demonstrating superheated steam in a non-pressurized system under one sun illumination. 2020-12-23T18:50:39Z 2020-12-23T18:50:39Z 2018-12 2018-03 2019-03-01T14:09:56Z Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 2041-1723 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/128913 Cooper, Thomas A.et al. “Contactless Steam Generation and Superheating Under One Sun Illumination.” Nature Communications 9, 1 (December 2018): 5086 © 2018 The Author(s) http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07494-2 Nature Communications Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ application/pdf Springer Science and Business Media LLC Nature |
| spellingShingle | Cooper, Thomas A Zandavi, Seyed Hadi Ni, George Wei Tsurimaki, Yoichiro Huang, Yi Boriskina, Svetlana V Chen, Gang Contactless steam generation and superheating under one sun illumination |
| title | Contactless steam generation and superheating under one sun illumination |
| title_full | Contactless steam generation and superheating under one sun illumination |
| title_fullStr | Contactless steam generation and superheating under one sun illumination |
| title_full_unstemmed | Contactless steam generation and superheating under one sun illumination |
| title_short | Contactless steam generation and superheating under one sun illumination |
| title_sort | contactless steam generation and superheating under one sun illumination |
| url | https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/128913 |
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