Abstract
Bulk evaporation of brine is a sustainable method to obtain minerals with the inherent advantage of selective crystallization based on ion solubility differences, but it has a critical drawback of requiring a prolonged time period. In contrast, solar crystallizers based on interfacial evaporation can reduce the processing time, but their ion-selectivity may be limited due to insufficient re-dissolution and crystallization processes. This study presents the first-ever development of an ion-selective solar crystallizer featuring an asymmetrically corrugated structure (A-SC). The asymmetric mountain structure of A-SC creates V-shaped rivulets that facilitate solution transport, promoting not only evaporation but also the re-dissolution of salt formed on the mountain peaks. When A-SC was employed to evaporate a solution containing a mixture of Na+ and K+ ions, the evaporation rate was 1.51kg/m2h and the relative concentration of Na+ to K+ in the crystallized salt was 4.45 times higher than that in the initial solution.
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