Floating solar receivers for distributed desalination
Year
2016
Project team
Gang Chen with Svetlana V. Boriskina, Thomas Cooper and George Ni
Localizing high temperatures to water surface
Increasingly, communities are turning to seawater desalination to manage intense droughts and satisfy growing freshwater demand. This project addresses the challenges associated with scalability, cost and water safety by using solar receivers to localize high temperatures to the water surface for distributed desalination and/or waste-water treatment.