Carbon materials for solar water evaporation and desalination

W Guan, Y Guo, G Yu - Small, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Seawater desalination is viewed as a promising solution to world freshwater scarcity. Solar
assisted desalination is proposed to overcome the high energy consumption in current …

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 …

Energy for desalination: A state-of-the-art review

H Nassrullah, SF Anis, R Hashaikeh, N Hilal - Desalination, 2020 - Elsevier
The utilization of seawater for drinking purposes is limited by the high specific energy
consumption (SEC)(kW-h/m 3) of present desalination technologies; both thermal and …

Current advances in membrane technologies for saline wastewater treatment: A comprehensive review

NNR Ahmad, WL Ang, CP Leo, AW Mohammad… - Desalination, 2021 - Elsevier
The saline wastewater from various sources including agriculture and industrial activities,
appears to have high salt concentration, organic content and other pollutants which can …

Optimisation of renewable energy powered reverse osmosis desalination systems: A state-of-the-art review

EJ Okampo, N Nwulu - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2021 - Elsevier
Reverse osmosis (RO) desalination has become a prominent desalination method for fresh-
water production from either saline seawater or brackish water to meet the ever-growing …

Membrane distillation at the water-energy nexus: limits, opportunities, and challenges

A Deshmukh, C Boo, V Karanikola, S Lin… - Energy & …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Energy-efficient desalination and water treatment technologies play a critical role in
augmenting freshwater resources without placing an excessive strain on limited energy …

Feasibility of industrial-scale treatment of dye wastewater via bio-adsorption technology

W Li, B Mu, Y Yang - Bioresource technology, 2019 - Elsevier
This review emphasizes the importance of costs in industrial-scale treatment of dye
wastewater and provides a way to assess the cost-based feasibility of bio-adsorption …

State-of-the-art methods for overcoming temperature polarization in membrane distillation process: A review

A Anvari, AA Yancheshme, KM Kekre… - Journal of membrane …, 2020 - Elsevier
Membrane distillation (MD) technology has been mainly used as a treatment method for
saline or contaminated wastewater. Despite the rapid progress in material engineering and …

Feasibility of the adsorption as a process for its large scale adoption across industries for the treatment of wastewater: Research gaps and economic assessment

K Ahmad - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2023 - Elsevier
This review highlights the significance of cost for various adsorbents in their wastewater
treatment using an adsorption process. Industrial wastewater discharge containing dye and …

Energy-water-environment nexus underpinning future desalination sustainability

MW Shahzad, M Burhan, L Ang, KC Ng - Desalination, 2017 - Elsevier
Energy-water-environment nexus is very important to attain COP21 goal, maintaining
environment temperature increase below 2° C, but unfortunately two third share of CO 2 …