Investigation of pressure retarded osmosis power production [PDF]
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2017 A major source of energy exists where there is mixing between aqueous solutions of different salinities. This energy source is particularly concentrated where fresh water rivers flow on to the ocean.
Taousanidis Nikolaos +1 more
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Desalination Technology in South Korea: A Comprehensive Review of Technology Trends and Future Outlook [PDF]
Membranes, 2022 Due to advances in desalination technology, desalination has been considered as a practical method to meet the increasing global fresh water demand.
Jongkwan Park, Sungyun Lee
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Opportunities of Reducing the Energy Consumption of Seawater Reverse Osmosis Desalination by Exploiting Salinity Gradients [PDF]
Membranes, 2022 This work presents a performance assessment of three seawater reverse osmosis—pressure-retarded osmosis (SWRO-PRO) hybrid schemes for energy consumption reduction in seawater desalination applications by using an external low salinity water source.
Miguel-Ángel Aumesquet-Carreto +2 more
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Graphene Oxide Incorporated Polysulfone Substrate for Flat Sheet Thin Film Nanocomposite Pressure Retarded Osmosis Membrane [PDF]
Membranes, 2020 This study focuses on the development of flat sheet thin film nanocomposite (TFN) pressure retarded osmosis (PRO) membranes for the enhancement of osmotic power generation by the incorporation of laboratory-synthesised graphene oxide (GO) into the ...
Siti Nur Amirah Idris +4 more
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Strategic Co-Location in a Hybrid Process Involving Desalination and Pressure Retarded Osmosis (PRO) [PDF]
Membranes, 2013 This paper focuses on a Hybrid Process that uses feed salinity dilution and osmotic power recovery from Pressure Retarded Osmosis (PRO) to achieve higher overall water recovery.
William B. Krantz +5 more
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Analysis of Energy Production by Pressure Retarded Osmosis
Chemical Engineering Transactions, 2020 The mass transfer rate and the power density are presented here using a pressure retarded osmosis membrane process. This process was researched for more than two decades as an energy production process, mixing seawater and river water through a selective
Endre Nagy +3 more
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Recent Advances in Osmotic Energy Generation via Pressure-Retarded Osmosis (PRO): A Review [PDF]
Energies, 2015 Global energy consumption has been highly dependent on fossil fuels which cause severe climate change and, therefore, the exploration of new technologies to produce effective renewable energy plays an important role in the world.
Jihye Kim +4 more
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Pressure Retarded Osmosis and Forward Osmosis Membranes: Materials and Methods [PDF]
Polymers, 2013 In the past four decades, membrane development has occurred based on the demand in pressure driven processes. However, in the last decade, the interest in osmotically driven processes, such as forward osmosis (FO) and pressure retarded osmosis (PRO), has increased.
Alsvik, Inger Lise, Hagg, May-Britt
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Review of Hybrid Membrane Distillation Systems [PDF]
MembranesMembrane distillation (MD) is an attractive separation process that can work with heat sources with low temperature differences and is less sensitive to concentration polarization and membrane fouling than other pressure-driven membrane separation ...
Heng Zhang, Haizhen Xian
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A Sequential Membrane Process of Ultrafiltration Forward Osmosis and Reverse Osmosis for Poultry Slaughterhouse Wastewater Treatment and Reuse [PDF]
Membranes, 2023 To address some challenges of food security and sustainability of the poultry processing industry, a sequential membrane process of ultrafiltration (UF), forward osmosis (FO), and reverse osmosis (RO) is proposed to treat semi-processed poultry ...
Faryal Fatima +2 more
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