Solar steam generation by heat localization

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2014-07-01

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GHASEMİ, Hadi
Nİ, George
MARCONNET, Amy Marie
LOOMİS, James
Yerci, Selçuk
MİLJKOVİC, Nenad
CHEN, Gang

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Currently, steam generation using solar energy is based on heating bulk liquid to high temperatures. This approach requires either costly high optical concentrations leading to heat loss by the hot bulk liquid and heated surfaces or vacuum. New solar receiver concepts such as porous volumetric receivers or nanofluids have been proposed to decrease these losses. Here we report development of an approach and corresponding material structure for solar steam generation while maintaining low optical concentration and keeping the bulk liquid at low temperature with no vacuum. We achieve solar thermal efficiency up to 85% at only 10kWm(-2). This high performance results from four structure characteristics: absorbing in the solar spectrum, thermally insulating, hydrophilic and interconnected pores. The structure concentrates thermal energy and fluid flow where needed for phase change and minimizes dissipated energy. This new structure provides a novel approach to harvesting solar energy for a broad range of phase-change applications.

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Nanofluids, Receivers

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/31477

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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS

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https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms5449

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Article

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H. GHASEMİ et al., “Solar steam generation by heat localization,” NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, pp. 0–0, 2014, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/31477.