All students in Professor Begrambekov's lab participated in the desalination project. For us it was mostly like a modern research-assistant role: we had our own plasma work, but sometimes helped with the device development when the project needed hands.
Applied R&D
Sea Water Desalination Device
Solar-assisted multi-effect evaporation desalination work with practical product-engineering lessons.
The work ranged from vacuum condensation and boiling salted water to solar collectors, glass-to-metal connections, and actual plasma deposition experiments for the black coating on the collector pipes. It was a side job, but it taught us a lot about practical product-engineering struggles: sealing, heating, condensing, connecting unlike materials, and making a real prototype behave outside the clean boundaries of a paper design.
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