Create steam using nanotechnology

A team of scientists has come up with a revolutionary method that uses sunlight to generate steam through nanotechnology without the need to heat up the container so that the water reaches boiling point. .

Steam has been used for centuries in many areas. While using steam as an environmentally friendly energy source, the process of creating steam is quite costly.

In most cases, fossil fuels like coal or gas are burned to heat water in the container and so much energy is wasted on heating the containers so that the water reaches the point Boil and then create steam. Therefore, other forms of energy dominate the steam.

Generate steam according to traditional methods. (Beth Buczynski)

Recently, however, scientists have used sunlight to generate water vapor with nanoparticles. This research is published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, which explains the mechanism of action of liquid nanoparticles. The illuminated nanoparticles can quickly reach temperatures of 212 ^° F (boiling point of water) after 5 to 20 seconds. The vapor then forms around the surface of each nanoparticle and eventually the vapors emanate from the molecules, resulting in nano bubbles emerging on the surface and escaping as the water expands. Adding millions of nanoparticles to water is easy to apply to steam-based industries.

This method also brings economic efficiency to the distillation, desalination, purification industry as well as to sterilization related fields, from medical waste treatment to sterilization. Medical instruments.

Dr Paul Weiss, editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Chemical Society, said the study opened up a revolutionary application of nanoparticles in the field of solar power. The authors show that sunlight can be used to generate steam that has virtually no heat loss. The social benefits it brings are astounding.