Plus, the process also filters water through a membrane that removes bacteria, viruses, and other contaminants. The devices are modular, and a smaller system can produce 3,500 liters of water an hour.

The 68-foot hybrid vessel, called the SXR 68 XL, has other sustainable features that expand its off-grid capabilities ...

Researchers at MIT and in China have improved the old-fashioned solar still with a new inexpensive device that harnesses the sun to remove salt from water. Traditionally, these kinds of systems use… ...

Some types of water are too salty for current desalination systems to handle. Scientists have now developed a potential solution to this problem, with a solar-powered desalination system that ...

In the floating desalination unit, a paper-thin layer of this material sits on the device's foam surface, keeping it away from cold ocean water and helping maximize heat localization.

Researchers at the University of Waterloo have developed an energy-efficient desalination device that uses the sun’s power to produce clean drinking water from seawater. This innovative approach ...

Desalination is an important technology that may help unlock more drinking water, and now two independent teams have developed new types of solar-powered desalination systems using very different ...

“For electromechanical systems that use flow, which a desalination device is certainly a type of, that means that there’s less energy input that needs to go in in order to get a certain amount of ...

The team next plans to try to scale up their device. They estimate that a desalination system with a surface collecting area of just one square meter could yield enough clean water to meet a family’s ...

First, ocean water is drawn up to the device's foam surface through a wicking system. Once the water reaches the surface, it is evaporated by solar-heated plasmonic materials.

Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water MIT engineers and their collaborators developed a solar-powered device that avoids the salt-clogging issues of other ...

The Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) is set to deploy an additional 28 water filtration systems to ...