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A Modeling and Simulation Method for Preliminary Design of an Electro-Variable Displacement Pump
Published on: June 1, 2022
Reverse Tesla valve modulated efficient water evaporation and cooling
Wensheng Wang1,2,3, Shouwei Gao4, Han Wu1
1Province Key Laboratory of Forestry Intelligent Equipment Engineering, College of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Northeast Forestry University, Harbin, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
Water evaporation, a physical process effectively driving natural hydrological cycles, has long suffered from rate limitations in industrial applications. Particularly in scenarios such as solar steam generation and evaporation cooling, the evaporation rate of conventional evaporators struggles to meet the practical request, due to the unresolved boundary layer resistance at the liquid-air interface. Here, we reinvent Nikola Tesla's fluidic diode into a reverse Tesla valve modulated bulk-effect evaporation system (BEES). By leveraging structure-induced vortex airflow to disrupt thermal and mass transfer boundary layers, BEES unlocks previously unattainable evaporation dynamics at the inner liquid-air interface and achieves an evaporation rate of 21.29 kg m-2 h-1, with a total energy/solar efficiency of 627%. Our BEES enables all-day freshwater harvesting and efficient evaporative cooling, achieving energy savings of 414 GJ m-3 month-1. This work establishes a bulk-effect evaporation framework complementary to traditional interfacial engineering for addressing the water-energy nexus.
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