Li Renyuan, Wang Wenbin, Shi Yifeng, Wang Chang-Ting, Wang Peng
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.
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, 999077, China.
Adv Mater. 2024 Mar;36(12):e2209460. doi: 10.1002/adma.202209460. Epub 2023 Apr 12.
Water-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.
基于水的蒸发冷却作为一种有前景的技术正在兴起，可为缓解全球不断增长的制冷需求提供可持续且低成本的冷量。鉴于近年来取得的重大且快速的进展，本综述旨在及时概述基于水的蒸发冷却领域的最新材料设计与工程。介绍了三种基于水的蒸发冷却过程的基本机制和主要组件，包括直接蒸发冷却、循环吸附驱动液态水蒸发冷却（CSD-LWEC）和基于大气水收集的蒸发冷却（AWH-EC）。强调了CSD-LWEC和AWH-EC中对吸附剂材料的独特要求，这有助于综合有关先进材料设计与工程的文献信息，以提高冷却性能。还提供了进一步提高基于水的蒸发冷却性能所面临的挑战和未来展望。
