Researchers have created a novel desalination system that runs with the rhythms of the sun. The MIT team's solar-powered device adjusts desalination speed to match sunlight variations, increasing output as sunshine intensifies and reducing it during cloudy moments. . In a direct-drive electrodialysis desalination system, using flow-commanded current control, solar panels take in energy from the sun and then optimally allocate energy (shown in yellow) to the pump and electrodialysis stack, without the need for energy storage, such as batteries. According to the team, the design. . The Solar Desalination funding program will explore novel technologies that use solar-thermal energy to assist in creating freshwater from otherwise unusable waters like seawater, brackish water, and contaminated water. Improvements to thermal desalination technologies and low-cost, integrated. . Researchers designed an energy-efficient device that produces drinking water from seawater using an evaporation process driven largely by the sun.
