Radiative Cooling for Passive Water Vapor Harvesting

We proposed using nanoengineered radiative cooling surfaces, that can cool itself several degrees below the ambient temperature, to collect water vapor from the ambient air. Using a physics-based machine learning approach and NASA satellite data, we predict the surface’s ability to collect water around the world.

 

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Presentation Team Members: 

Akshay Rao, School of Mechanical Engineering, May 2020

Aidan Chappell, School of Mechanical Engineering, May 2021

George Elias, School of Mechanical Engineering, May 2020

Abhimanyu Das, School of Mechanical Engineering

Joseph Peoples, School of Mechanical Engineering

Project Mentors: Professor David Warsinger and Professor Xiulin Ruan, Mechanical Engineering