Harvesting blue energy based on salinity and temperature gradient: challenges, solutions, and opportunities

M Rastgar, K Moradi, C Burroughs, A Hemmati… - Chemical …, 2023‏ - ACS Publications
Greenhouse gas emissions associated with power generation from fossil fuel combustion
account for 25% of global emissions and, thus, contribute greatly to climate change …

[HTML][HTML] Fouling mitigation strategies for different foulants in membrane distillation

A Alkhatib, MA Ayari, AH Hawari - Chemical Engineering and Processing …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Providing clean water to a rapidly growing population is an issue that is currently getting lots
of attention to offer a sustainable solution for water scarcity. Membrane distillation (MD) is …

Wetting, scaling, and fouling in membrane distillation: state-of-the-art insights on fundamental mechanisms and mitigation strategies

T Horseman, Y Yin, KSS Christie, Z Wang… - Acs Es&T …, 2020‏ - ACS Publications
Membrane distillation (MD) has been garnering increasing attention in research and
development, since it has been proposed as a promising technology for desalinating …

Membrane distillation: Recent developments and perspectives

E Drioli, A Ali, F Macedonio - Desalination, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Membrane distillation (MD) has gained significant regard from industrial and academic
perspective in recent years, thus the frequency of publications related to the field has greatly …

Fouling and its control in membrane distillation—A review

LD Ti**g, YC Woo, JS Choi, S Lee, SH Kim… - Journal of Membrane …, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Membrane distillation (MD) is an emerging thermally-driven technology that poses a lot of
promise in desalination, and water and wastewater treatment. Developments in membrane …

Understanding the fouling/scaling resistance of superhydrophobic/omniphobic membranes in membrane distillation

L Liu, Z **ao, Y Liu, X Li, H Yin, A Volkov, T He - Desalination, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Membrane distillation has shown great promises in desalinating various water streams.
Significant progresses have been made in the past decades owing to the development of …

Nanofiltration-inspired Janus membranes with simultaneous wetting and fouling resistance for membrane distillation

Y Chen, KJ Lu, W Gai, TS Chung - Environmental Science & …, 2021‏ - ACS Publications
Membranes with robust antiwetting and antifouling properties are highly desirable for
membrane distillation (MD) of wastewater. Herein, we have proposed and demonstrated a …

A critical review on membrane separation processes applied to remove pharmaceutically active compounds from water and wastewater

CF Couto, LC Lange, MCS Amaral - Journal of Water Process Engineering, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Pharmaceutically active compounds are a real threat all around the world. Conventional
water and wastewater treatment are not efficient in removing this kind of organic …

Pilot trial of membrane distillation driven by low grade waste heat: Membrane fouling and energy assessment

N Dow, S Gray, J Zhang, E Ostarcevic, A Liubinas… - Desalination, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD) supplied with waste heat was demonstrated for
water recovery from saline demineralisation regeneration waste. The pilot plant was located …

Composite membrane with underwater-oleophobic surface for anti-oil-fouling membrane distillation

Z Wang, D Hou, S Lin - Environmental science & technology, 2016‏ - ACS Publications
In this study, we fabricated a composite membrane for membrane distillation (MD) by
modifying a commercial hydrophobic polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) membrane with a …