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Desalination Powered By Entropy, Sanza Kazadi, Young Hong, Calvin Chau, Apoorv Chaudhary, Arnav Chaudhary, James Park, Jessica Liu, Miji Kim, David Kim, Sam Kim
Desalination Powered By Entropy, Sanza Kazadi, Young Hong, Calvin Chau, Apoorv Chaudhary, Arnav Chaudhary, James Park, Jessica Liu, Miji Kim, David Kim, Sam Kim
Sanza Kazadi
We describe in this paper a novel water distiller. The water distiller utilizes a thermal gradient device which spontaneously generates and maintains a thermal gradient through a process similar to osmosis. A theoretical derivation of the process which we call an entrochemical process is presented. The device utilizes the thermal
gradient to induce a flow of energy through the system. This flow of energy is used to induce the distillation of water. The device may be recharged using a low-temperature evaporation process. We describe the
design of the device, which has a distillation process that has an efficiency of 12.6 …