Sorption-based atmospheric water harvesting device

Patent · Tue Jun 16 00:00:00 EDT 2020

OSTI ID:1651017

Kim, Hyunho; Yang, Sungwoo; Rao, Sameer R.; Narayanan, Shankar; Kapustin, Eugene A.; Furukawa, Hiroyasu; Umans, Ari S.; Yaghi, Omar M.; Wang, Evelyn N.

A water-harvesting system can operate with a material that can take up and release water with minimum energy requirements and powered by low-grade energy sources, such as sunlight, in order to potentially allow its deployment into households, especially those located in sunny regions. A water-harvesting method and system can include vapor adsorption using a porous metal-organic framework. In certain embodiments, the porous metal-organic framework can include metal-organic framework in ambient air with low relative humidity, typical of the levels found in most dry regions of the world.

• Research Organization: Massachusetts Inst. of Technology, Cambridge, MA (United States); Univ. of California, Oakland, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AR0000185
• Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA); The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, CA)
• Patent Number(s): 10,683,644
• Application Number: 16/377,146
• OSTI ID: 1651017
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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