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Solar steam generation by heat localization

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Ghasemi, Hadi, Ni, George, Marconnet, Amy Marie, Loomis, James, Yerci, Selcuk, Miljkovic, Nenad, Chen, Gang·2014·Nature Communications

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Currently, steam generation using solar energy is based on heating bulk liquid to high temperatures. This approach requires either costly high optical concentrations leading to heat loss by the hot bulk liquid and heated surfaces or vacuum. New solar receiver concepts such as porous volumetric receivers or nanofluids have been proposed to decrease these losses. Here we report development of an approach and corresponding material structure for solar steam generation while maintaining low optical concentration and keeping the bulk liquid at low temperature with no vacuum. We achieve solar thermal efficiency up to 85% at only 10 kW m(-2). This high performance results from four structure characteristics: absorbing in the solar spectrum, thermally insulating, hydrophilic and interconnected pores. The structure concentrates thermal energy and fluid flow where needed for phase change and minimizes dissipated energy. This new structure provides a novel approach to harvesting solar energy for a broad range of phase-change applications.

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Authors: Ghasemi, H., Ni, G., Marconnet, A. M., Loomis, J., Yerci, S., Miljkovic, N., & Chen, G.
Affiliations: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US)
Purdue University West Lafayette (US)
Corresponding author: Chen, Gang
ORCID: Ghasemi, Hadi
Ni, George
Marconnet, Amy Marie
Miljkovic, Nenad
Chen, Gang
Venue: Nature Communications
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published: 2014-07-21
Volume: 5
Issue: 1
Pages: 4449-4449
ISSN: 2041-1723 (ISSN-L)
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5449
OpenAlex: W2084629494
Semantic Scholar: 63a8560dfd8adac86d0b3084d08b7c4eab9815d8
Cited by: 2,333
References: 28
Citations by year: 2026: 220 · 2025: 256 · 2024: 256 · 2023: 255 · 2022: 266 · 2021: 266 · 2020: 277 · 2019: 219 · 2018: 157 · 2017: 99 · 2016: 44 · 2015: 14 · 2014: 2
FWCI: 17.46
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: bronze
doi.org
Licence: www.springernature.com/gp/researchers/text-and-data-mining (tdm)
www.springernature.com/gp/researchers/text-and-data-mining (vor)
Locations: Nature Communications (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) (submittedVersion)
OpenMETU (Middle East Technical University) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
Funders: U.S. Department of Energy (DE‐FG02‐, DESC0001299, #DE-FG02-09ER46577)
Office of Science (DE-FG02-09ER46577, DESC0001299, DE-SC0001299/DE-FG02-09ER46577)
Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
Basic Energy Sciences (DE-SC0001299/DE-FG02-09ER46577, SC0001299/DE-FG02-09ER46577, DE‐SC0001299, DE-FG02, DE-FG02- 09ER46577)
Air Force Office of Scientific Research (FA9550-, DE-SC0001299/DE-FG02-09ER46577, FA9550-11-1-0174, FA9550-11)
Topics: Physical Sciences › Energy › Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment › Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods
Physical Sciences › Energy › Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment › Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems
Physical Sciences › Engineering › Mechanical Engineering › Adsorption and Cooling Systems
Keywords: solar steam generation, heat localization, solar thermal energy, carbon materials, double-layer structure, porous media, phase transitions, solar receiver, solar thermal efficiency, hydrophilic surfaces, thermal insulation

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