Wong Min Jin Karen and Zhipeng Wang and Willey Y. H. Liew and Melvin Gan Jet Hong (2023) Low‑cost and sustainable carbonized sawdust based solar absorber for solar vapor generation towards seawater desalination. Waste and Biomass Valorization, 14. pp. 3071-3080. ISSN 1877-2641
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Abstract
Solar vapor generation is a promising clean water generation as it utilizes clean and renewable solar energy as the energy source, along with the use of low-cost and sustainable carbonized sawdust (CSD). In this work, CSD coated cotton towel was used as the solar absorber (SA) for seawater desalination by solar vapor generation. A series of different weight percentage solar absorber was fabricated for the determination of the optimal photothermal conversion material content. The experiment was conducted by outdoors solar vapor generation using deionized water. The best performed 60 wt.% CSD coated cotton towel solar absorber (SA60) was chosen for the seawater desalination towards clean water generation. Outdoors solar vapor generation was conducted for about 2 h with seawater gathered from the beach coast of Universiti Malaysia Sabah. Aver- age efficiency of SA60 was calculated at 63.41 ± 1.31% with the average evaporation rate at about 1.15 kg/m 2 h. Salinity (120 ppm) and pH (7.22) of the collected clean water was within the World Health Organization safe water limit standard.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Keyword: | Carbonized sawdust, Solar absorber, Solar vapor generation, Seawater desalination |
| Subjects: | T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) > TA1-2040 Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) T Technology > TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering > TK1-9971 Electrical engineering. Electronics. Nuclear engineering > TK2896-2985 Production of electricity by direct energy conversion |
| Department: | FACULTY > Faculty of Engineering |
| Depositing User: | JUNAINE JASNI - |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Aug 2025 11:27 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Aug 2025 11:27 |
| URI: | https://eprints.ums.edu.my/id/eprint/44944 |
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