Photothermal Materials and Membranes for Solar-Driven Water Treatment provides comprehensive understanding of the chemistry of different photothermal materials, mechanistic pathways for light-to-heat energy conversion, design and development of various 3D evaporation systems configurations, and photothermal membranes for water treatment. The book contributes to the understanding of photothermal materials to system design for efficient solar-to-heat conversion and solar-steam generation and paves the way forward to meet increasing freshwater demand though sustainable and environmentally friendly approach. In addition, it introduces in-depth different emerging concepts of steam-generation, gives the basics of solar light and solar light adsorbing materials’ function, efficiency and applications, discusses the preparation of photothermal materials and membranes, analyses the key characteristic properties of photothermal materials, elaborates on water evaporation using nature spired system design, and highlights the key commercialization approaches and technologies.
Table of Contents
Section 1: Solar distillation and photothermal materials1. Overview of solar driven water treatment technologies
2. Photothermal materials solar-to-heat conversion phenomena
3. Preparation methods for photothermal materials
4. Specific properties and standard methods for photothermal material analyses
Section 2: Design of solar water evaporators for desalination and wastewater treatment
5. 1D and 2D water channels for water evaporators
6. 3D and hierarchical solar water evaporators
7. Bioinspired designs for solar water evaporators
8. Solar-driven interfacial evaporators
Section 3: Photothermal membrane for desalination and wastewater treatment
9. Photothermal membrane distillation
10. Photothermal responsive (solar-intensified) RO membrane
11. Photothermal responsive (solar-intensified) NF membrane
12. Photothermal responsive (solar-intensified) UF membrane
Section 4: Photothermal and photocatalysis for water treatment
13. Photothermal-assisted photocatalytic degradation for wastewater treatment
14. Photothermal nanomaterials for solar water treatment
15. Biomass-based photothermal materials for water treatment
16. Photothermal antimicrobial materials for water disinfection