{"id":2035,"date":"2019-01-09T15:27:32","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T23:27:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/?p=2035"},"modified":"2019-01-09T15:27:35","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T23:27:35","slug":"mit-scientists-build-solar-super-heated-steam-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/steam-power\/mit-scientists-build-solar-super-heated-steam-device\/","title":{"rendered":"MIT Scientists Build Solar Super-Heated Steam Device"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The\nworld of technology often leaves us with revolutionary changes in the way that\nwe live. One such change has been our ability to use the power of the sun to\nour own ends. That power, though, might just be about to become stronger than\never: MIT Engineers have now built a new device which can soak up enough heat\nfrom the soil to boil water. Indeed, it can even produce heated steam with a\nheat in excess of 100-degrees Celsius. This comes without the need for any\nexpensive to use or work with equipment, making it a revolutionary step forward\nin many ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"MIT<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Indeed,\non a nice and sunny day, the equipment could produce enough steam to sterilize\nmedical equipment safely, as well as use the equipment in cooking and in\ncleaning. The steam may also be used for heating in industrial purposes, and\ncould even be used for desalinating drinking water. As we can see, there are\nmany positive uses to have a low-cost tool for this process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This new device<\/a> hangs\nover water, instead of floating within it over fears of long-term contamination\nover time. No thicker than an average tablet, this little tool will then absorb\nthe heat of the sun and then emit the heat to the water down below. At a point\nof 100C, this releases the steam into the device, where it is then funneled and\npumped out of a filtered tube.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking\nabout the system was Thomas Cooper, the assistant professor of mechanical\nengineer at York University, who has led his work as a postdoc at MIT. He said\nthat: \u201cIt\u2019s a completely passive system \u2014 you just leave it outside to absorb\nsunlight,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou\ncould scale this up to something that could be used in remote climates to\ngenerate enough drinking water for a family, or sterilize equipment for one\noperating room.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A\ntransformative system<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

This new solar system has been\ndeveloped over time, and was also overseen by the likes of Gang Chen, the Carl\nRichard Soderborg Professor of Power Engineering, MIT. They demonstrated a\ngraphite-covered foam device that floated within the water in 2014. However,\nconcerns over contamination meant that there was hesitation to continue with it\nis use. By getting around the main issue of contamination unlike any other\ndevice before it, this definitely opens some very interesting doors for\ntechnology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By using a device that absorbs the\nshort wavelength solar energy and heats up the device, the heat then is\nradiated out using long wavelength infrared radiation into the water. This is\nabsorbed in by the water, then. The top layer then uses a small metal ceramic\ncomposite device that operates as the solar absorption device.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They sandwich a layer of the carbon\nfoam that was used in the previous device, and a small tube at the end,\nallowing for the foam to exit. As time goes on, this could be used for so many\npurposes, and shows how we can create highly efficient and safe to use steam\nwithout expensive or potentially contaminated contact arrangements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The world of technology often leaves us with revolutionary changes in the way that we live. One such change has been our ability to use the power of the sun to our own ends. That power, though, might just be about to become stronger than ever: MIT Engineers have now built a new device which […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-steam-power"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2035"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2040,"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2035\/revisions\/2040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greentechgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}