TY - GEN
T1 - Trends in Solar Powered Water Desalination Using Hydrogels
T2 - 2023 Advances in Science and Engineering Technology International Conferences, ASET 2023
AU - Chaitanya, Bathina
AU - Akhter, Md Zishan
AU - Ramachandran, Tholkappiyan
AU - Al-Marzouqi, Ali Hassan
AU - Omar, Farag Khalifa
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 IEEE.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Just as Benjamin Franklin said, 'When the well's dry, we know the worth of water', rapid increases in population, urbanization, and climate change are posing severe water stress conditions in recent times. This problem is becoming grim in the developing world and is expected to affect half of the world's population by the middle of this century. In its response, transpiration process-inspired, solar-powered water desalination using biomimetic morphing hydrogels has recently been gaining attention. However, the selection of suitable absorber material to capture full solar spectra, engineering water transport channels for better conversion efficiency, and designing optimum surface topology and vapor generation are bottleneck challenges for practical implementation. Correspondingly, we intend to attend these challenges by developing scalable, low-cost, and eco-friendly hydrogel. We present a short literature review to select suitable absorber materials, polymer networks, and fabrication processes.
AB - Just as Benjamin Franklin said, 'When the well's dry, we know the worth of water', rapid increases in population, urbanization, and climate change are posing severe water stress conditions in recent times. This problem is becoming grim in the developing world and is expected to affect half of the world's population by the middle of this century. In its response, transpiration process-inspired, solar-powered water desalination using biomimetic morphing hydrogels has recently been gaining attention. However, the selection of suitable absorber material to capture full solar spectra, engineering water transport channels for better conversion efficiency, and designing optimum surface topology and vapor generation are bottleneck challenges for practical implementation. Correspondingly, we intend to attend these challenges by developing scalable, low-cost, and eco-friendly hydrogel. We present a short literature review to select suitable absorber materials, polymer networks, and fabrication processes.
KW - 2-D Materials
KW - Desalination
KW - Hydrogel
KW - MXenes
KW - Solar absorption
KW - Transpiration
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U2 - 10.1109/ASET56582.2023.10180772
DO - 10.1109/ASET56582.2023.10180772
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85167448370
T3 - 2023 Advances in Science and Engineering Technology International Conferences, ASET 2023
BT - 2023 Advances in Science and Engineering Technology International Conferences, ASET 2023
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 20 February 2023 through 23 February 2023
ER -
