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Performance fluctuations and evaluation of a piston type integrated high pressure pump-energy recovery device

open access: yesnpj Clean Water, 2022
The development of energy recovery device (ERD) is a decisive factor for the recent prevalence of reverse osmosis (RO) technology in the seawater desalination field.
Yin Zhang   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Fabrication of desalination membranes by interfacial polymerization: history, current efforts, and future directions.

open access: yesChemical Society Reviews, 2021
Membrane desalination is a promising technology for addressing the global challenge of water scarcity by augmenting fresh water supply. Continuous progress in this technology relies on development of membrane materials.
Xinglin Lu, M. Elimelech
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A thermodynamic platform for evaluating the energy efficiency of combined power generation and desalination plants

open access: yesnpj Clean Water, 2021
In seawater desalination, the energy efficiency of practical processes is expressed in kWh_electricity or low-grade-heat per m3 of water produced, omitting the embedded energy quality underlying their generation processes.
Kim Choon Ng   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Progress and Perspectives of Desalination in China

open access: yesMembranes, 2021
In recent decades, the ever-growing demands for clean water in households and industries have urged researchers to take every possible step to deal with the global water crisis.
Guoling Ruan   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Synergies and potential of hybrid solar photovoltaic-thermal desalination technologies

open access: yesDesalination, 2023
and thermal energy outputs from PVT panels could be used synergistically to catalyze the improvement on the solar energy efficiency, specific energy consumption, and specific water production, as well as the operational independence for off-grid ...
Wei He, Gan Huang, C. Markides
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Nanoscale control of internal inhomogeneity enhances water transport in desalination membranes

open access: yesScience, 2021
Finding the path to better desalination Polyamide membranes have been used in large-scale desalination for decades. However, because of the thinness of the membranes and their internal variability, it has been hard to determine which aspects of the ...
Tyler E. Culp   +12 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Drivers, challenges, and emerging technologies for desalination of high-salinity brines: A critical review

open access: yesDesalination, 2022
Hypersaline brines are of growing environmental concern. While high-salinity desalination and zero liquid discharge (ZLD) are increasingly attractive treatment options, the high salt and scalant contents pose considerable technical difficulties to ...
Kinnari M. Shah   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Sustainable Preparation of Graphene Quantum Dots for Metal Ion Sensing Application

open access: yesNanomaterials, 2022
Over the past several years, graphene quantum dots (GQDs) have been extensively studied in water treatment and sensing applications because of their exceptional structure-related properties, intrinsic inert carbon property, eco-friendly nature, etc. This
Asif Saud   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Application of a membrane condenser system for ammonia recovery from humid waste gaseous streams at a minimum energy consumption

open access: yesApplied Water Science, 2022
Among the various technologies for the removal and recovery of chemicals from gaseous streams, the membrane condenser (MCo) is proposed and analyzed in this work.
Francesca Macedonio   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Characterization of new and fouled SWRO membranes by ATR/FTIR spectroscopy

open access: yesApplied Water Science, 2018
Attenuated total reflection (ATR)–Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy was used to characterize the chemical nature of fouling species on different spiral wound membranes operated at Al-Jubail SWRO plant.
Mohammed Mahmoodur Rahman   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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