UTD scientists want to create a portable way to access clean water during droughts.
, Luke Skywalker grows up on the hot desert planet Tatooine. His family owns a moisture farm that uses devices called “vaporators” to pull drinking water from the air.
“We’re trying to get water everywhere, at any time, anywhere. That’s our goal,” said Dai, a UTD assistant professor of mechanical engineering.The condensation chamber in Dr. Xianming "Simon" Dai lab on Thursday, Nov. 10, 2022, at UT Dallas’ Natural Science and Engineering Research Lab in Richardson, TX.
Dai and his lab aimed to harvest water using a similar approach. If they could keep a surface cool, drawing warm water vapor to it, they could condense the water into droplets and collect it.One issue slowing down current water harvesting tech is that once water droplets form on a surface, they have nowhere to go.
Dai and his lab set a similar “trap” for already-formed water droplets by creating several T-shaped channels – smaller than a human hair in diameter – in their test water harvesting system, a rectangle about 2 centimeters wide made of silicon. Dai’s use of channels to make water harvesting more efficient has not been thoroughly explored in existing research. There’s more work to be done before his technology could be something that’s available for purchase.
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