Issue 12, 2022
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Energy & Environmental Science

Atmospheric water harvesting: critical metrics and challenges

Jiayun Wang,a   Lingji Hua,b   Chunfeng Lia  and  Ruzhu Wang ORCID logo *b  

* Corresponding authors

a Institute of Refrigeration and Cryogenics, University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, 516 Jungong Road, Shanghai 200093, China
E-mail: rzwang@sjtu.edu.cn

b Institute of Refrigeration and Cryogenics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 800 Dongchuan Road, Shanghai 200240, China

Abstract

Atmospheric water harvesting (AWH) is a promising strategy to extract potable water from atmospheric moisture. However, current AWH strategies encounter two significant dilemmas: (1) comparison between different AWH technologies lacks fairness; (2) the development direction of AWH is unclear. Thermodynamic evaluation with the minimum energy requirement analysis of four AWH methods is expected to achieve a fair comparison of the technologies and their global deployment. Besides the transition to a more sustainable and cost-efficient AWH implementation, we should reach a consensus to evaluate the potential of AWH technologies, evaluate the challenges and barriers remaining in current AWH technologies, and propose a realistic pathway to improve process performance.

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Article information

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1039/D2EE03079A
Article type
Opinion
Submitted
23 Sep 2022
Accepted
07 Nov 2022
First published
09 Nov 2022

Energy Environ. Sci., 2022,15, 4867-4871

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