{"id":111258,"date":"2020-08-13T11:22:52","date_gmt":"2020-08-13T18:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/breakthrough-technology-purifies-water-using-the-power-of-sunlight"},"modified":"2020-08-13T11:22:52","modified_gmt":"2020-08-13T18:22:52","slug":"breakthrough-technology-purifies-water-using-the-power-of-sunlight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/breakthrough-technology-purifies-water-using-the-power-of-sunlight","title":{"rendered":"Breakthrough technology purifies water using the power of sunlight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/breakthrough-technology-purifies-water-using-the-power-of-sunlight2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A global research team has been able to transform brackish water and seawater into safe, clean drinking water in less than 30 minutes using metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and sunlight.<\/p>\n<p>In a discovery that could provide <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/potable+water\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">potable water<\/a> for millions of people across the world, researchers were not only able to filter harmful particles from <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/water\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">water<\/a> and generate 139.5L of clean water per kilogram of MOF per day, but also perform this task in a more energy-efficient manner than current desalination practices.<\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organization suggests good quality drinking water should have a total dissolved solid (TDS) of 600 parts per million (ppm). Researchers were able to achieve a TDS of 500 ppm in just 30 minutes and regenerate the MOF for reuse in four minutes under sunlight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A global research team has been able to transform brackish water and seawater into safe, clean drinking water in less than 30 minutes using metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) and sunlight. In a discovery that could provide potable water for millions of people across the world, researchers were not only able to filter harmful particles from water [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-particle-physics","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}