Affiliation:
1. Water Desalination and Reuse Center Division of Biological and Environmental Science and Engineering King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Thuwal 23955‐6900 Saudi Arabia
2. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering the Hong Kong Polytechnic University Hong Kong 999077 China
Abstract
AbstractWater‐based evaporative cooling is emerging as a promising technology to provide sustainable and low‐cost cold to alleviate the rising global cooling demand. Given the significant and fast progress made in recent years, this review aims to provide a timely overview on the state‐of‐the‐art material design and engineering in water‐based evaporative cooling. The fundamental mechanisms and major components of three water‐based evaporative cooling processes are introduced, including direct evaporative cooling, cyclic sorption‐driven liquid water evaporative cooling (CSD‐LWEC), and atmospheric water harvesting‐based evaporative cooling (AWH‐EC). The distinctive requirements on the sorbent materials in CSD‐LWEC and AWH‐EC are highlighted, which helps synthesize the literature information on the advanced material design and engineering for the purpose of improving cooling performance. The challenges and future outlooks on further improving the water‐based evaporative cooling performance are also provided.
Subject
Mechanical Engineering,Mechanics of Materials,General Materials Science
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