Introduction and background:
Based on global data, approximately 15,906 operational desalination plants are producing around 95
million m3/day of desalinated water (Jones, Qadir, Vliet, 2019) [1]. Of the desalination technologies,
reverse osmosis (RO) is by far the dominant process, accounting for 84% of the total number of
operational desalination plants (Kumar et al. 2021) [2]. Solar-powered desalination plants could be a
solution, but there are some limitations. For example, it does not work at night and requires a higher
surface area. This hybrid solar-powered desalination plant has been designed to overcome most of the
significant limitations of solar-powered desalination.
Claim: It is a solar-powered hybrid desalination plant. Increasing surface area through an increased
number of layers and twisted channels on every layer into the main chamber and entrapping sunlight to
capture as much heat as possible from sunlight is a significant part of this solar-powered hybrid
desalination plant design. In addition, there will have mechanisms to reduce the intermolecular forces
through rough and heat-absorbing surfaces, modified tesla valve-like structure, and air circulation to
enhance low-temperature evaporation. Finally, recycling heat energy from outgoing vapor and brine is
another prominent feature of this novel hybrid solar-powered desalination plant.
The detailed design is coming very soon…….
