Three innovative projects selected to receive funding from the Schmidt Transformative Technology FundSolving water insecurity by extracting wate...
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Solving water insecurity by extracting water from air
The third project focuses on providing technological solutions to water insecurity, a major threat to populations worldwide. The team combines the expertise of Forrest Meggers, assistant professor of architecture and the Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment; Sujit Datta, assistant professor of chemical and biological engineering; Sankaran Sundaresan, the Norman John Sollenberger Professor in Engineering and professor of chemical and biological engineering; and visiting collaborator Marco Simonetti, associate professor in thermodynamics and heat transfer at Politecnico di Torino. The researchers will develop a new technology for condensing water from air, which could dramatically expand areas for cultivation and habitation. The proposed method will extract water using 30 times less energy than existing water-harvesting systems. The approach takes advantage of new materials that absorb and release water depending on temperature to collect water both during the day and at night.
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2020/05/11/three-innovative-projects-selected-receive-funding-schmidt-transformative