Lithium concentration from salt-lake brine by Donnan-enhanced nanofiltration

ZH Foo, D Rehman, AT Bouma… - Environmental …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Membranes offer a scalable and cost-effective approach to ion separations for lithium
recovery. In the case of salt-lake brines, however, the high feed salinity and low pH of the …

Sustainable lithium recovery from hypersaline salt-lakes by selective electrodialysis: Transport and thermodynamics

ZH Foo, JB Thomas, SM Heath, JA Garcia… - Environmental …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Evaporative technology for lithium mining from salt-lakes exacerbates freshwater scarcity
and wetland destruction, and suffers from protracted production cycles. Electrodialysis (ED) …

Extraction and separation of natural products from microalgae and other natural sources using liquefied dimethyl ether, a green solvent: a review

T Wang, L Zhu, L Mei, H Kanda - Foods, 2024 - mdpi.com
Microalgae are a sustainable source for the production of biofuels and bioactive
compounds. This review discusses significant research on innovative extraction techniques …

Addressing global water stress using desalination and atmospheric water harvesting: a thermodynamic and technoeconomic perspective

JD Kocher, AK Menon - Energy & Environmental Science, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Freshwater is a critical resource but excessive withdrawal of natural reserves and inefficient
water management, as well as climate change and pollution have resulted in global water …

Distributed desalination using solar energy: A technoeconomic framework to decarbonize nontraditional water treatment

AK Menon, M Jia, S Kaur, C Dames, RS Prasher - Iscience, 2023 - cell.com
Desalination using renewable energy offers a route to transform our incumbent linear
consumption model to a circular one. This transition will also shift desalination from large …

Positively‐Coated Nanofiltration Membranes for Lithium Recovery from Battery Leachates and Salt‐Lakes: Ion Transport Fundamentals and Module Performance

ZH Foo, S Liu, L Kanias, TR Lee… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Membranes facilitate scalable and continuous lithium concentration from hypersaline salt
lakes and battery leachates. Conventional nanofiltration (NF) membranes, however, exhibit …

Toward a Circular Lithium Economy with Electrodialysis: Upcycling Spent Battery Leachates with Selective and Bipolar Ion-Exchange Membranes

ZH Foo, TR Lee, JM Wegmueller… - Environmental …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Recycling spent lithium-ion batteries offers a sustainable solution to reduce ecological
degradation from mining and mitigate raw material shortages and price volatility. This study …

Advancing the productivity-selectivity trade-off of temperature swing solvent extraction desalination with intermediate-step release

KM Shah, IH Billinge, E Dach… - Environmental Science & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Temperature swing solvent extraction (TSSE) offers a membrane-less and nonevaporative
approach to hypersaline desalination, but performance of conventional TSSE operation is …

[HTML][HTML] Non-evaporative solid phase ammonium sulfate separation from ammonia-stripped sulfuric acid solution by solvent-driven fractional crystallization

J Park, W Lee, JK Choe, Y Choi - Separation and Purification Technology, 2023 - Elsevier
Manifold ammonia separation and recovery processes, such as adsorption, ion exchange,
air stripping, membrane stripping, and electrochemical stripping, have been developed to …

Phase equilibria insights into amine-water-NaCl interactions in liquid-liquid biphasic systems for temperature swing solvent extraction desalination

KM Shah, E Dach, R Winton, H Fan, NY Yip - Desalination, 2023 - Elsevier
This study sheds light on the fundamental phenomena governing temperature swing solvent
extraction (TSSE) desalination by investigating the influence of temperature on the …