Open AccessPerspective for removing volatile organic compounds during solar‐driven water evaporation toward water production
Author(s) -
Ma Jiaxiang,
Xu Ying,
Sun Feiyun,
Chen Xiaodong,
Wang Wei
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
ecomat
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2567-3173
DOI - 10.1002/eom2.12147
Subject(s) - evaporation , economic shortage , environmental science , distilled water , contamination , waste management , environmental chemistry , process engineering , materials science , environmental engineering , pulp and paper industry , chemistry , engineering , meteorology , government (linguistics) , ecology , linguistics , philosophy , physics , chromatography , biology
Abstract Solar evaporation has attracted considerable interest to alleviate the shortage of water resources in the past few years. Lots of works have been done focusing on evaporation materials, rate, and efficiency, however, little attempts have been made to remove the harmful volatile organic compounds (VOCs), a kind of contamination that inevitably evaporate and condense alongside with water, which seriously affect the distilled water quality. This perspective puts forward some technical ideas utilizing chemical or physicochemical methods, aiming at the development of multifunctional composite materials, and forming an integrated evaporation system, which manage to remove VOCs in situ at the interface of photothermal evaporation.