A Method for Distillation Using the Ultrasonic Water Mist Generator

A Method for Distillation Using the Ultrasonic Water Mist Generator | Research Square window.SnipcartSettings = { analytics: { enabled: false } }; (function() { var accessVector = localStorage.getItem('access_vector') || ''; window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; if (accessVector) { window.dataLayer.push({ user: { profile: { profileInfo: { snid: accessVector } } } }); } })(); (function(w,d,s,l,i){w[l]=w[l]||[];w[l].push({'gtm.start':new Date().getTime(),event:'gtm.js'});var f=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],j=d.createElement(s),dl=l!='dataLayer'?'&l='+l:'';j.async=true;j.src='https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id='+i+dl;f.parentNode.insertBefore(j,f);})(window,document,'script','dataLayer','GTM-K279D39R'); Browse Preprints In Review Journals COVID-19 Preprints AJE Video Bytes Research Tools Research Promotion AJE Professional Editing AJE Rubriq About Preprint Platform In Review Editorial Policies Our Team Advisory Board Help Center Sign In Submit a Preprint Cite Share Download PDF Article A Method for Distillation Using the Ultrasonic Water Mist Generator Ting-Han Pei This is a preprint; it has not been peer reviewed by a journal. https://doi.org/ 10.21203/rs.3.rs-6417215/v1 This work is licensed under a CC BY 4.0 License Status: Posted Version 1 posted You are reading this latest preprint version Abstract In this study, we used an ultrasonic water mist generator to efficiently generate fine saltwater mist and used dense metallic meshes to evaporate it through conduction and convection heating. This method is similar to traditional saltwater distillation, but we greatly reduce the heat source required to generate water vapor in the first stage and can quickly evaporate it on the metallic meshes to produce pure water. In addition, we performed extremely complex simulations of the evaporation process of water droplets. The simulation takes into account the change in water droplet temperature, the change in water droplet mass, the position where the water droplet rises, and the heat conduction model of the water droplet. The simulation results show that the generated water droplet can evaporate quickly after 0.46 seconds. The dense metallic meshes can efficiently carry out the heat conduction process, and the hot air layer nearby also benefits to transfer convective heat to the water droplet. We can see how the droplet size changes between 0 seconds and 0.46 seconds. In summary, this research work can be applied to real seawater desalination. 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