Steam generation under one sun enabled by a floating structure with thermal concentration

Harvesting solar energy as heat has many applications, such as power generation, residential water heating, desalination, distillation and wastewater treatment. However, the solar flux is diffuse, and often requires optical concentration, a costly component, to generate the high temperatures needed...

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Main Authors: Ni, George Wei (Contributor), Li, Gabriel (Contributor), Boriskina, Svetlana V (Contributor), Li, Hongxia (Contributor), Yang, Weilin (Contributor), Zhang, Tiejun (Contributor), Chen, Gang (Contributor)
Other Authors: Masdar Institute of Science and Technology (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Chemical Engineering (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Materials Science and Engineering (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mechanical Engineering (Contributor), Boriskina, Svetlana V. (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group, 2017-06-05T16:01:31Z.
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