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

KM Shah, IH Billinge, X Chen, H Fan, Y Huang… - Desalination, 2022 - Elsevier
Hypersaline brines are of growing environmental concern. While high-salinity desalination
and zero liquid discharge (ZLD) are increasingly attractive treatment options, the high salt …

Design strategy of poly (vinylidene fluoride) membranes for water treatment

D Zou, YM Lee - Progress in Polymer Science, 2022 - Elsevier
The development of facile, benign and energy-efficient water treatment technologies to
produce clean water presents a major societal challenge. Membrane-based separation …

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 …

Pore wetting in membrane distillation: A comprehensive review

H Chamani, J Woloszyn, T Matsuura, D Rana… - Progress in Materials …, 2021 - Elsevier
Membrane distillation (MD) is an emerging technology for the desalination of brines. In some
cases, liquid penetrates into the pores of the membrane, causing pore wetting. MD's …

Electrospun nanofiber membranes for wastewater treatment applications

J Cui, F Li, Y Wang, Q Zhang, W Ma… - Separation and Purification …, 2020 - Elsevier
With the rapid development of nanotechnology, more and more attention has been paid to
the preparation of electrospun nanofibers. Electrospun nanofiber membranes play an …

Wetting phenomena in membrane distillation: Mechanisms, reversal, and prevention

M Rezaei, DM Warsinger, MC Duke, T Matsuura… - Water research, 2018 - Elsevier
Membrane distillation (MD) is a rapidly emerging water treatment technology; however,
membrane pore wetting is a primary barrier to widespread industrial use of MD. The primary …

A review of membrane wettability for the treatment of saline water deploying membrane distillation

M Yao, LD Ti**g, G Naidu, SH Kim, H Matsuyama… - Desalination, 2020 - Elsevier
Membrane distillation (MD) is an alternative membrane technology that offers the capacity to
treat highly saline water including industrial wastewater, seawater, brine water from other …

Brine management in desalination industry: From waste to resources generation

MO Mavukkandy, CM Chabib, I Mustafa, A Al Ghaferi… - Desalination, 2019 - Elsevier
Desalination brine has high salinity and contains various chemical contaminants and its
disposal causes a major concern for desalination around the world. Environmentally friendly …

Design of omniphobic interfaces for membrane distillation–a review

KJ Lu, Y Chen, TS Chung - Water research, 2019 - Elsevier
Membrane distillation (MD) has a great potential in treating high salinity industrial
wastewater due to its unique characteristics. Nevertheless, the implementation of MD for …

Comprehensive review of membrane design and synthesis for membrane distillation

M Qasim, IU Samad, NA Darwish, N Hilal - Desalination, 2021 - Elsevier
Water scarcity is a grand challenge that requires continuous exploration of new desalination
technologies in order to augment the global supply of fresh water. In this context, membrane …