Renewable energy-driven desalination technologies: A comprehensive review on challenges and potential applications of integrated systems

N Ghaffour, J Bundschuh, H Mahmoudi, MFA Goosen - Desalination, 2015 - Elsevier
Despite the tremendous improvements in conventional desalination technologies, its wide
use is still limited due primarily to high energy requirements which are currently met with …

Use of membrane technology for oil field and refinery produced water treatment—A review

S Munirasu, MA Haija, F Banat - Process safety and environmental …, 2016 - Elsevier
With the advent of modern drilling technology namely sand-tar, hydraulic fracturing and
enhanced oil recovery, the amount of waste water to be treated before reuse and/or …

Membrane-based seawater desalination: Present and future prospects

G Amy, N Ghaffour, Z Li, L Francis, RV Linares… - Desalination, 2017 - Elsevier
Given increasing regional water scarcity and that almost half of the world's population lives
within 100 km of an ocean, seawater represents a virtually infinite water resource. However …

Electrospun membranes for membrane distillation: The state of play and recent advances

L Francis, FE Ahmed, N Hilal - Desalination, 2022 - Elsevier
Electrospinning is a versatile technique for the fabrication of nanofibrous, nanostructured
composite membranes for a large number of applications. This mini-review focuses on …

Renewable energy-driven innovative energy-efficient desalination technologies

N Ghaffour, S Lattemann, T Missimer, KC Ng, S Sinha… - Applied energy, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract Globally, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) desalinates the largest capacity of
seawater but through energy-intensive thermal processes such as multi-stage flash (MSF) …

Advances in membrane distillation module configurations

L Francis, FE Ahmed, N Hilal - Membranes, 2022 - mdpi.com
Membrane Distillation (MD) is a membrane-based, temperature-driven water reclamation
process. While research emphasis has been largely on membrane design, upscaling of MD …

Intrinsically superhydrophobic PVDF membrane by phase inversion for membrane distillation

S Munirasu, F Banat, AA Durrani, MA Haija - Desalination, 2017 - Elsevier
Superhydrophobic surfaces have been considered as preferable property for desalination
by membrane distillation (MD). Highly porous and intrinsically superhydrophobic PVDF …

Effect of operating parameters and membrane characteristics on air gap membrane distillation performance for the treatment of highly saline water

J Xu, YB Singh, GL Amy, N Ghaffour - Journal of Membrane Science, 2016 - Elsevier
In this study, ten different commercially available PTFE, PP and PVDF membranes were
tested in desalination of highly saline water by air gap membrane distillation (AGMD) …

Comparison analysis of different technologies for the removal of boron from seawater: A review

N Najid, S Kouzbour, A Ruiz-García, S Fellaou… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Boron overabundance in drinking and irrigation water is a severe environment and health
issues because it is toxic to various crops and induces many human and animals diseases …

Exploring the potential of commercial polyethylene membranes for desalination by membrane distillation

J Zuo, S Bonyadi, TS Chung - Journal of membrane science, 2016 - Elsevier
The potential of utilizing polyethylene (PE) membranes in membrane distillation (MD) for sea
water desalination has been explored in this study. The advantages of using PE membranes …