All-weather solar seawater desalination device and method

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12350604-B2
Application number	US-202418797824-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Aug 8, 2024
Priority date	Nov 8, 2023
Publication date	Jul 8, 2025
Grant date	Jul 8, 2025

Abstract

The disclosure relates to the technical field of solar seawater desalination, in particular to an all-weather solar seawater desalination device and a method. Through a prepared composite hydrogel evaporator, the water in seawater is evaporated into steam and condensed into fresh water. By combining solar energy with a long afterglow luminous device, the composite hydrogel evaporator is irradiated by solar energy to evaporate during the day, while at night, the light energy released by the long afterglow luminous device continues to maintain the evaporation process.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A preparation method of an all-weather solar seawater desalination device, the method comprising:
preparing a polyacrylamide hydrogel by mixing acrylamide, initiator ammonium persulfate, co-initiator tetramethylethylenediamine, crosslinking agent methylene bisacrylamide and water, and performing polymerization crosslinking reaction in a mold to obtain the polyacrylamide hydrogel;
preparing a polyacrylamide slurry by mixing acrylamide, initiator ammonium persulfate, co-initiator tetramethylethylenediamine and water, and performing polymerization reaction to obtain the polyacrylamide slurry;
preparing a polyacrylamide/carbon nanotube coating by mixing carbon nanotubes with a first portion of the polyacrylamide slurry, and dispersing by ultrasound to prepare a polyacrylamide/carbon nanotube composite solution, and coating the composite solution prepared on a qualitative filter paper to obtain the polyacrylamide/carbon nanotube coating;
preparing a composite hydrogel evaporator by adhering the polyacrylamide/carbon nanotube coating to a top end face of the polyacrylamide hydrogel, and obtaining the composite hydrogel evaporator after standing for 10-20 minutes;
preparing a long afterglow luminous device by mixing a long afterglow material comprising strontium aluminate co-activated by europium and dysprosium with a second portion of the polyacrylamide slurry to obtain a long afterglow slurry, and coating the long afterglow slurry on a qualitative filter paper and naturally drying to prepare the long afterglow luminous device; and
assembling a stand, a seawater holding tank, a fresh water holding tank, a transparent cover, a long afterglow support frame, the composite hydrogel evaporator prepared and the long afterglow luminous device to obtain the all-weather solar seawater desalination device.

2. The preparation method of the all-weather solar seawater desalination device according to claim 1 , wherein a temperature of the polymerization crosslinking reaction and the polymerization reaction is 20° C.-80° C. for a duration is of 1 h-3 h.

3. The preparation method of the all-weather solar seawater desalination device according to claim 1 , wherein a duration of the dispersing by ultrasound step in the preparation of the polyacrylamide/carbon nanotube coating is 5 min-45 min.

Assignees

• Univ Guangdong Ocean

Inventors

• Guo Jingyuan
• Li Lefan
• Li Tuanzhang
• Li Chengpeng
• Hu Zhang
• Li Sidong

Classifications

• C09D133/26

  Homopolymers or copolymers of acrylamide or methacrylamide · CPC title

• C08K3/041

  Carbon nanotubes · CPC title

• C02F2201/002

  Construction details of the apparatus · CPC title

• C02F2103/08

  Seawater, e.g. for desalination · CPC title

• C09K11/7792

  Aluminates · CPC title