New Solvent Improves on an Emerging Desalination Technology
Written by AZoMFeb 12 2021
Researchers predict that two-thirds of the global population could be affected by freshwater shortage by 2025. To address this problem, scientists from the University of Notre Dame have found that a new solvent an ionic liquid enhances a budding desalination technology: directional solvent extraction.
Solvents. Image Credit: University of Notre Dame.
Directional solvent extraction involves using a solvent to separate freshwater from a saline source with the help of low temperature thermal energy. This implies that the extraction method could use waste heat, or heat generated as a byproduct of other work, and solar heat.
ThickSat satellite built by Virginia Tech students is headed to space
Published Monday, Dec. 21, 2020, 10:53 am
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Front Page » Local/State » ThickSat satellite built by Virginia Tech students is headed to space
Students at Space@VT finalize assembly of their ThickSat, which will test a carbon fiber mast boom in low Earth orbit. Photo by Gustavo Gargioni.
Few students have the opportunity to design, test, and build a satellite and see it successfully launched into space. A group of Virginia Tech engineering students are one step closer as their satellite, the “ThickSat,” has been delivered for space launch qualification testing before being integrated onto the rocket for launch.