Contactless steam generation and superheating under one sun illumination

Thomas A. Cooper; Seyed H. Zandavi; George W. Ni; Yoichiro Tsurimaki; Yi Huang; Svetlana V. Boriskina; Gang Chen

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-07494-2

Nature Communications (Dec 2018)

Contactless steam generation and superheating under one sun illumination

Thomas A. Cooper,
Seyed H. Zandavi,
George W. Ni,
Yoichiro Tsurimaki,
Yi Huang,
Svetlana V. Boriskina,
Gang Chen

Affiliations

Thomas A. Cooper: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Seyed H. Zandavi: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
George W. Ni: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Yoichiro Tsurimaki: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Yi Huang: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Svetlana V. Boriskina: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Gang Chen: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07494-2
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Solar steam generation is limited by fouling of solar converters, and the steam temperature is usually pinned to 100 °C. Here, both limitations are overcome in a system utilizing a solar absorber and light down-converter to achieve radiative heating, which does not require physical contact between absorber and water.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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