Tuesday, June 27, 2017

Freshwater from salt water using only solar energy

06/27/2017 03:31 PM EDT

Rice University researchers with a scaled up test bed of the NEWT Center's direct solar desalination system

A federally funded research effort to revolutionize water treatment has yielded a direct solar desalination technology that uses energy from sunlight alone to heat salt water for membrane distillation. The technology could provide off-grid water treatment for some of the 1 billion people who lack access to clean water.


Full story at http://news.rice.edu/2017/06/19/freshwater-from-salt-water-using-only-solar-energy-2/

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Rice University


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