Electrochemical methods for water purification, ion separations, and energy conversion

MA Alkhadra, X Su, ME Suss, H Tian, EN Guyes… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Agricultural development, extensive industrialization, and rapid growth of the global
population have inadvertently been accompanied by environmental pollution. Water …

Nanofluidics for osmotic energy conversion

Z Zhang, L Wen, L Jiang - Nature Reviews Materials, 2021 - nature.com
The osmotic pressure difference between river water and seawater is a promising source of
renewable energy. However, current osmotic energy conversion processes show limited …

Environmental sustainability and ions removal through electrodialysis desalination: Operating conditions and process parameters

M Sedighi, MMB Usefi, AF Ismail, M Ghasemi - Desalination, 2023 - Elsevier
Electrodialysis, a membrane separation method, uses an electrical potential difference to
separate ions in aqueous solutions. Electrodialysis is used in several industries for the …

Electrodialysis for water desalination: A critical assessment of recent developments on process fundamentals, models and applications

A Campione, L Gurreri, M Ciofalo, G Micale… - Desalination, 2018 - Elsevier
The need for unconventional sources of fresh water is pushing a fast development of
desalination technologies, which proved to be able to face and solve the problem of water …

Solar–thermal water evaporation: a review

Y Pang, J Zhang, R Ma, Z Qu, E Lee, T Luo - ACS Energy Letters, 2020 - ACS Publications
Solar–thermal water evaporation (SWE) has received much interest in recent years due to a
few seminal works on materials innovation and thermal management. With many studies …

Progress and prospects in reverse electrodialysis for salinity gradient energy conversion and storage

RA Tufa, S Pawlowski, J Veerman, K Bouzek… - Applied energy, 2018 - Elsevier
Salinity gradient energy is currently attracting growing attention among the scientific
community as a renewable energy source. In particular, Reverse Electrodialysis (RED) is …

Nanofluidic osmotic power generators–advanced nanoporous membranes and nanochannels for blue energy harvesting

G Laucirica, ME Toimil-Molares, C Trautmann… - Chemical …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The increase of energy demand added to the concern for environmental pollution linked to
energy generation based on the combustion of fossil fuels has motivated the study and …

Electrodialysis desalination, resource and energy recovery from water industries for a circular economy

MM Kabir, GM Sabur, MM Akter, SY Nam, KS Im… - Desalination, 2024 - Elsevier
The water industries (WIN) are now approaching towards sustainability of resource use,
recovery process, and water and energy management based on the circular economy (CRE) …

Towards the development of new generation of ion exchange membranes for reverse electrodialysis: A review

MNZ Abidin, MM Nasef, J Veerman - Desalination, 2022 - Elsevier
Reverse electrodialysis (RED) is an attractive, sustainable, and emerging technology that
harvests energy based on the salinity gradient caused by the flow of rivers into oceans to …

Unique applications and improvements of reverse electrodialysis: A review and outlook

H Tian, Y Wang, Y Pei, JC Crittenden - Applied Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Reverse electrodialysis (RED) is a promising technology for extracting energy from salinity
gradients. However, there are still barriers to the realization of its commercial application …