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Humid‐Air Condensation Heat Transfer on Hierarchical Structured Superhydrophobic Graphite Composites

Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.
Humid‐air condensation on graphite composites shows that making a surface superhydrophobic is not sufficient to enhance heat transfer. A hierarchical CuO/lauric‐acid coating yields spherical droplets but promotes Wenzel‐type pinning and adds effective thermal resistance under operation.
Raphael Raab, Tobias Melchior, Hannah Mennecke, Daniel Fotachov, Egbert Oesterschulze, Thomas Reviol, Erik von Harbou, Hans‐Jörg Bart   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Recent Advances in Heat Transfer Enhancements: A Review Report

International Journal of Chemical Engineering, 2010
Different heat transfer enhancers are reviewed. They are (a) fins and microfins, (b) porous media, (c) large particles suspensions, (d) nanofluids, (e) phase-change devices, (f) flexible seals, (g) flexible complex seals, (h) vortex generators, (i ...
M. Siddique, A.-R. A. Khaled, N. I. Abdulhafiz, A. Y. Boukhary   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Characteristics of Evapotranspiration of Urban Lawns in a Sub-Tropical Megacity and Its Measurement by the ‘Three Temperature Model + Infrared Remote Sensing’ Method

Remote Sensing, 2017
Evapotranspiration (ET) is one of the most important factors in urban water and energy regimes. Because of the extremely high spatial heterogeneity of urban area, accurately measuring ET using conventional methods remains a challenge due to their fetch ...
Guoyu Qiu, Shenglin Tan, Yue Wang, Xiaohui Yu, Chunhua Yan   +4 more
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Innovative Approaches to Solar Desalination: A Comprehensive Review of Recent Research

Energies, 2023
Solar desalination systems are a promising solution to the water scarcity problem since the majority of the earth’s water resources are salty. With the increasing focus on desalination research, many innovative methods are being developed to extract ...
Ahmed E. Abu El-Maaty, Mohamed M. Awad, Gamal I. Sultan, Ahmed M. Hamed   +3 more
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A Comprehensive Review of Waste‐Derived Materials for Solar Still Performance Enhancement

Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Solar desalination reduces energy use and produces freshwater sustainably, but its productivity is limited and cannot meet rising demand. Thus, solar desalination system improvements are sought to boost water productivity. Waste materials are abundantly available and burden the environment, making them low‐cost enhancers for solar desalination
A. S. Abdullah, Abanob Joseph, Wissam H. Alawee, Gamal B. Abdelaziz, Mohammed El Hadi Attia, Swellam W. Sharshir, Ahmed El‐Harairy   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Light‐Programmable Interfaces: From Molecular Photoswitching to Adaptive Membrane Separations

Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.
This review advances an interface‐centered framework for light‐responsive membranes, linking molecular photoswitches (azobenzene (AZO), spiropyran (SP), diarylethene (DAE), donor–acceptor Stenhouse adducts (DASA), photoacid) to integration strategies in polymeric, porous, self‐assembled, and mixed‐matrix systems.
Liangliang Zhang, Senlin Gu, Jianyang Zhao, Xiaojuan Hao, Lu Hua Li, Jihua Li, Lingxue Kong   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Competition of two highly specialized and efficient acetoclastic electroactive bacteria for acetate in biofilm anode of microbial electrolysis cell

npj Biofilms and Microbiomes, 2021
Maintaining functional stability of microbial electrolysis cell (MEC) treating wastewater depends on maintaining functional redundancy of efficient electroactive bacteria (EAB) on the anode biofilm.
Veerraghavulu Sapireddy, Krishna P. Katuri, Ali Muhammad, Pascal E. Saikaly   +3 more
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Adopting the circular model: opportunities and challenges of transforming wastewater treatment plants into resource recovery factories in Saudi Arabia

Journal of Water Reuse and Desalination, 2022
With the ever-growing population, water, energy, and resources need to be used carefully, reused, and renewed. There is an increasing global interest in resource recovery from ‘waste’, which is driven by sustainability and environmental concerns and ...
Muhammad Ali, Pei-Ying Hong, Himanshu Mishra, Johannes Vrouwenvelder, Pascal E. Saikaly   +4 more
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Accelerating Discovery to Deployment: Argonne's Materials Engineering Research Facility (MERF) and Its Role in Scaling Materials Technologies for Water and Resource Solutions

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
In this Perspective, we highlight the processing science and scale‐up capabilities of the Materials Engineering Research Facility (MERF) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, with an emphasis on practical solutions for sustainable water and critical resource recovery. We demonstrate how national laboratories bridge fundamental
Yuepeng Zhang, Bratin Sengupta, Xiaoao Shi, Haihui Pu, Jeffrey W. Elam, Gregory K. Krumdick, Jessica Durham Macholz, Allison Bennett Irion, Junhong Chen, Seth B. Darling   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Global trends of seawater desalination research: An AI-assisted bibliometric analysis during 2019–2024

Desalination and Water Treatment
As the global water crisis intensifies, the significance of seawater desalination has become increasingly apparent. This study employed a bibliometric analysis of scholarly publications and patent applications from 2019 to 2024 to identify recent ...
Song Hanwen, Bai Dong, She Jian, Liu Luofeng, Wang Kai, Wang Shenghui   +5 more
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