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Portable Seawater Desalination Device


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Posted 23 March 2010 - 04:55 AM


Freshwater could become the oil of the 21st century – scarce, expensive and fought over. While over 70 per cent of the Earth's surface is covered by water, most of it is unusable for human consumption. Technological advances have made desalination and demineralization feasible – albeit expensive – solutions for increasing the world's supply of freshwater. However, nanotechnology-based water purification devices have the potential to transform the field of desalination (read more: "Nanotechnology and water treatment").

Researchers have now demonstrated a new, efficient and fouling-free desalination process based on the ion concentration polarization (ICP) phenomenon – a fundamental electrochemical transport phenomenon . Read More


Edited by bobscrachy, 23 March 2010 - 04:57 AM.





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