| Title: | Self-Suspended Photothermal Microreactor for Water Desalination and Integrated Volatile Organic Compound Removal |
| Author(s): | Deng J; Xiao S; Wang B; Li Q; Li G; Zhang D; Li H; |
| Address: | "Key Laboratory of Resource Chemistry of Ministry of Education, Shanghai Key Laboratory of Rare Earth Functional Materials, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, China (PRC)" |
| Journal Title: | ACS Appl Mater Interfaces |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 1944-8252 (Electronic) 1944-8244 (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "Steam generation and photocatalytic degradation of organic pollutants based on solar light are regarded as two important strategies for addressing the water scarcity issues. The water evaporation efficiency was greatly inhibited by the high cost, low stability, and low efficiencies of solar light absorption and photothermal conversion of photothermal materials. Moreover, volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are easily volatilized and enriched in as-distilled water during the photothermal process. Inspired by the structure of biomass materials in nature, a bifunctional solar light-driven steam generation and VOC removal microreactor was explored by coating commercial TiO(2) (P25) powders on a carbonized biomass waste Flammulina. With the 3D aligned porous carbon architectures, this microreactor exhibited both a high water evaporation rate (37.0 kg m(-2) h(-1)) and a high energy conversion efficiency (91.2%) under simulated sunlight irradiation (light intensity = 25.5 kW m(-2)). A high VOC removal rate (80.9% in 40 min) was also achieved during the steam generation process via choosing phenol as the probe pollutant molecules. The nature-inspired designing concept and bifunctional microreactor in this study may open up a new strategy for producing clean distilled water from seawater with an efficient removal of VOCs" |
| Keywords: | P25 VOC removal biomass waste interfacial solar heating solar steam generation; |
| Notes: | "PubMed-not-MEDLINEDeng, Jinyuan Xiao, Shuning Wang, Bei Li, Qian Li, Guisheng Zhang, Dieqing Li, Hexing eng 2020/11/10 ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2020 Nov 18; 12(46):51537-51545. doi: 10.1021/acsami.0c15694. Epub 2020 Nov 8" |
