The advent of thermoplasmonic membrane distillation

S Santoro, AH Avci, A Politano, E Curcio - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022‏ - pubs.rsc.org
Freshwater scarcity is a vital societal challenge related to climate change, population
pressure, and agricultural and industrial demands. Therefore, sustainable desalination …

Membrane distillation: Perspectives for sustainable and improved desalination

D González, J Amigo, F Suárez - Renewable and Sustainable Energy …, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Membrane distillation (MD) is a promising separation technology that can help reducing the
worldwide water-energy stress in a sustainable way. MD uses low-grade thermal energy to …

[HTML][HTML] Can emerging membrane-based desalination technologies replace reverse osmosis?

C Skuse, A Gallego-Schmid, A Azapagic, P Gorgojo - Desalination, 2021‏ - Elsevier
Growing uncertainty in the future availability of freshwater sources has led to an increase in
installations for desalination of seawater. Reverse osmosis (RO), currently the most widely …

Recent advances in membrane distillation processes: Membrane development, configuration design and application exploring

P Wang, TS Chung - Journal of membrane science, 2015‏ - Elsevier
Membrane distillation (MD) is a separation process based on the vapor transport across the
hydrophobic microporous membrane driven by the vapor pressure gradient across the …

Membrane distillation crystallization technology for zero liquid discharge and resource recovery: Opportunities, challenges and futuristic perspectives

A Yadav, PK Labhasetwar, VK Shahi - Science of The Total Environment, 2022‏ - Elsevier
Water resources are getting limited, which emphasises the need for the reuse of wastewater.
The conventional waste (water) treatment methods such as reverse osmosis (RO) and multi …

Membrane distillation hybrids for water production and energy efficiency enhancement: A critical review

N Ghaffour, S Soukane, JG Lee, Y Kim, A Alpatova - Applied Energy, 2019‏ - Elsevier
With an ever-increasing demand in energy, constrained by strict environmental regulations,
process development faces stringent design requirements further limited by intrinsic …

Brine treatment technologies towards minimum/zero liquid discharge and resource recovery: State of the art and techno-economic assessment

G Cipolletta, N Lancioni, Ç Akyol, AL Eusebi… - Journal of environmental …, 2021‏ - Elsevier
In the framework of minimum liquid discharge (MLD) or zero liquid discharge (ZLD),
sustainable brine management can be achieved via appropriate hybrid treatment …

[HTML][HTML] A zero liquid discharge system integrating multi-effect distillation and evaporative crystallization for desalination brine treatment

Q Chen, M Burhan, MW Shahzad, D Ybyraiymkul… - Desalination, 2021‏ - Elsevier
With growing global desalination capacity, brine from desalination plants has become an
environmental threat to the ecosystems. One sustainable method for brine treatment is to …

A review of the management and treatment of brine solutions

BK Pramanik, L Shu, V Jegatheesan - Environmental science: water …, 2017‏ - pubs.rsc.org
There has been a considerable expansion in the use of desalination plants for supplying
potable water to many communities in the world. However, the production of brine, which is …

Design of zero liquid discharge desalination (ZLDD) systems consisting of freeze desalination, membrane distillation, and crystallization powered by green energies

KJ Lu, ZL Cheng, J Chang, L Luo, TS Chung - Desalination, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Zero liquid discharge desalination (ZLDD) is a sustainable solution to the global water
scarcity problem. It provides high water recovery, zero waste generation and valuable salt …