Emerging desalination technologies: Current status, challenges and future trends

FE Ahmed, A Khalil, N Hilal - Desalination, 2021 - Elsevier
Emerging technologies present many new possibilities for diversifying the desalination
industry, which is currently dominated by thermal desalination, and reverse osmosis. In this …

[HTML][HTML] State-of-the-art of renewable energy sources used in water desalination: Present and future prospects

J Bundschuh, M Kaczmarczyk, N Ghaffour… - Desalination, 2021 - Elsevier
The last decade has seen a worldwide increase in the use of alternative energy sources,
especially renewable energy (RE), including its application in desalination. In the past many …

A review on photothermal material and its usage in the development of photothermal membrane for sustainable clean water production

NS Fuzil, NH Othman, NH Alias, F Marpani… - Desalination, 2021 - Elsevier
Tap** into solar energy seems to be a viable and sustainable solution for the ongoing
global challenges of water scarcity and clean energy shortage. However, the natural …

Breaking temperature barrier: Highly thermally heat resistant polymeric membranes for sustainable water and wastewater treatment

S Mashhadikhan, R Ahmadi, AE Amooghin… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2024 - Elsevier
In recent years, high-temperature water/wastewater treatment has become an emerging
area of high priority interest for industries such as oil and gas, food production, and power …

Advances in membrane-based chiral separation

C Yu, BH Yin, Y Wang, S Luo, X Wang - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Chiral separation is essential in discovering bioactive substances because the enantiomer
of chiral drugs usually exhibits different or even opposite biological activity and toxicity. As a …

Environmental impact of desalination processes: Mitigation and control strategies

K Elsaid, ET Sayed, MA Abdelkareem… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
Freshwater supplies are in shortage relative to the high demand for different human
activities, making desalination of saline water a must. Desalination to extract water from …

Carbon nanotube membranes in water treatment applications

M Barrejón, M Prato - Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon nanotube (CNT)‐based membranes combine the promising properties of CNTs with
the advantages of membrane separation technologies, offering enhanced membrane …

Carbon nanofiber-based three-dimensional nanomaterials for energy and environmental applications

X Zhou, B Liu, Y Chen, L Guo, G Wei - Materials Advances, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Carbon nanofibers (CNFs) not only retain a similar one-dimensional nanostructure, similar
special properties, and similar multi-functionality to carbon nanotubes, but they also exhibit a …

New insights of nanomaterials usage toward superhydrophobic membranes for water desalination via membrane distillation: A review

E Gontarek-Castro, R Castro-Muñoz… - Critical Reviews in …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Membrane distillation (MD) is a promising technology for seawater desalination due to the
ability to process high-salinity waters and the ability to be driven by low-grade or waste heat …

Recycling of waste lubricating oil: A review of the recycling technologies with a focus on catalytic cracking, techno-economic and life cycle assessments

KK Moses, A Aliyu, A Hamza… - Journal of Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Waste lubricating oil (WLO) is a catch-all name for many lubricating oils used in automobiles
and machines. WLO has been designated as a hazardous waste in the eight major …