(569i) The Concept of Entropic Machines for Water Desalination

Scarcity of water resources is becoming an increasing challenging problem in the world. This calls for new means of water utilization, including seawater. Entropy generation has been implemented in designing a new device for desalination process based on nonequilibrium thermodynamics and interfacial/electro chemistry concepts. The efficiency of the new proposed device is almost twice of the previous apparatus proposed in the literature and therefore it is classified as a new generation membrane-free machines for the desalination process required for purification of the natural seawater used as drinking water and in related chemical and biological applications.