Biomass hydrogels combined with carbon nanotubes for water purification via efficient and continuous solar-driven steam generation.
CNT
Hydrogel
Sodium alginate
Solar evaporation
Water purification
Journal
The Science of the total environment
ISSN: 1879-1026
Titre abrégé: Sci Total Environ
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 0330500
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
01 Sep 2022
01 Sep 2022
Historique:
received:
27
02
2022
revised:
02
05
2022
accepted:
02
05
2022
pubmed:
8
5
2022
medline:
11
6
2022
entrez:
7
5
2022
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Solar vapor generation is a promising, environmentally friendly solution for water purification. The development and design of new materials and supporting devices for efficient energy conversion and clean water production are essential for the practical application of solar-driven desalination and water purification. In this study, an environmentally friendly and economical biomass hydrogel-based solar evaporator with a controllable shape was developed in a simple method by integrating carbon nanotubes (CNTs) into a sodium alginate (SA) hydrogel network. The evaporator had a high solar absorption rate (94.3%) and satisfactory hydrophilicity and could effectively avoid salt crystallization during the desalination process. This study took advantage of the aforementioned merits, and a high evaporation rate of 1.699 kg m
Identifiants
pubmed: 35525369
pii: S0048-9697(22)02854-6
doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2022.155757
pii:
doi:
Substances chimiques
Hydrogels
0
Nanotubes, Carbon
0
Steam
0
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
155757Informations de copyright
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Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts
Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.