Pathways to Energy-efficient Water Production from the Atmosphere.

ABSTRACT: Atmospheric water harvesting (AWH) provides a fascinating chance to facilitate a sustainable water supply, which obtains considerable attention recently. However, ignoring the energy efficiency of AWH leads to high energy consumption in current prototypes (ca. 10¹ to 10²  MJ kg^-1 ), misfitting with the high-strung and complicated water-energy nexus. In this perspective, a robust evaluation of existing AWHs is conducted and a detailed way to high-efficiency AWH is paved. The results suggest that using cooling-assisted adsorption will weaken the bounds of climate to sorbent selections and have the potential to improve efficiency by more than 50%. For device design, the authors deeply elucidate how to perfect heat/mass transfer to narrow the gap between lab an

SUBMITTER: Feng Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9798993 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature