{"id":14903,"date":"2026-06-18T09:04:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-18T16:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/2026\/reconfiguration-and-scaling-of-an-evaporation-chamber-for-thermal-desalination\/"},"modified":"2026-06-18T09:04:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-18T16:04:53","slug":"reconfiguration-and-scaling-of-an-evaporation-chamber-for-thermal-desalination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/2026\/reconfiguration-and-scaling-of-an-evaporation-chamber-for-thermal-desalination\/","title":{"rendered":"Reconfiguration and Scaling of an Evaporation Chamber for Thermal Desalination"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"project-sponsor-dept-year\"><span class=\"project-sponsor\">Undesert Corporation<\/span> <span class=\"project-dept-year\">Engineering, 2025\u201326<\/span><\/h2>\n<div class=\"project-team\">\n<p><strong>Liaison(s):<\/strong> Hill Kemp<br \/>\n<strong>Advisor(s):<\/strong> Sophia Bahena<br \/>\n<strong>Students(s):<\/strong> Naomi Horiguchi (TL-S), Celeste Magdaleno (TL-F), Ian Smith, Emily Zhou (F), Malina Andrews (S), Cole Sumino (S), Lily Anfang (S)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"project-abstract\">Undesert is developing an industrial-scale thermal desalination system to deliver freshwater with minimal energy use in regions experiencing water scarcity. The Undesert Clinic team designed a scaled-down, portable version of the system\u2019s evaporation chamber for domestic applications. Additionally, the team optimized chamber performance by identifying and evaluating high-performance medium materials and configurations.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Undesert Corporation Engineering, 2025\u201326 Liaison(s): Hill Kemp Advisor(s): Sophia Bahena Students(s): Naomi Horiguchi (TL-S), Celeste Magdaleno (TL-F), Ian Smith, Emily [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164],"tags":[777],"class_list":["post-14903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engineering","tag-undesert-corporation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14946,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14903\/revisions\/14946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hmc.edu\/clinic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}