(Nanowerk News) MIT researchers have developed a portable desalination unit, weighing less than 10 kilograms, that can remove particles and salts to generate drinking water. The suitcase-sized device, ...

A new approach to desalination being developed by researchers at MIT and in Korea could lead to small, portable desalination units that could be powered by solar cells or batteries and could deliver ...

Photo: A single unit of the new desalination device, fabricated on a layer of silicone. In the Y-shaped channel (in red), seawater enters from the right, and fresh water leaves through the lower ...

A new approach to desalination could lead to small, portable desalination units that could be powered by solar cells or batteries and could deliver enough fresh water to supply the needs of a family ...

The shortcomings of conventional desalination units. How a new approach was developed and tested, using advanced electronics and chemistry. The performance achieved by this unit in field tests.

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Freshwater could become the oil of the 21st century – scarce, expensive and fought over. While over 70 per cent of the Earth's surface is covered by water, most of it is unusable ...

(a) Schematic diagram of possible optimized unit design. (b) (Left) Gravity-fed ICP desalination system. μCP stack has many parallel microfluidic ICP-device for salt/pathogen removal. Prefilter can ...

Efforts to resolve Cyprus continuous water scarcity problem will focus primarily on increasing the available amount of portable water by installing further desalination units, agriculture ministry ...

Following natural disasters such as the Haiti earthquake or Hurricane Katrina potable water is often in high demand and short supply. In both of those instances, the disaster zones were near the sea, ...