This year, more than a third of the world will suffer from shortages of potable water. This number is expected to rise by 50% by 2025 and that’s one of the reasons why the desalination techniques of seawater are so important, because they will allow coastal communities to address local shortfalls.
The new technology was developed by Kamalesh Sirkar, a chemical engineer from the New Jersey Institute of Technology, and it’s comprised of a direct-contact membrane distillation system (DCMD) that will distill drinking water out of up to 20% salt-concentrated brine. After 25%, the salt precipitates out of the solution and could damage the system.
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