Mineral scaling induced membrane wetting in membrane distillation for water treatment: Fundamental mechanism and mitigation strategies

H Chang, Y Zhu, L Huang, Z Yan, F Qu, H Liang - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
The scaling-induced wetting phenomenon seriously affects the application of membrane
distillation (MD) technology in hypersaline wastewater treatment. Unlike the large amount of …

Membrane distillation for zero liquid discharge during treatment of wastewater from the industry of traditional Chinese medicine: A review

W Zhong, L Guo, C Ji, G Dong, S Li - Environmental Chemistry Letters, 2021 - Springer
Zero liquid discharge after treatment of industrial wastewater is a major goal to avoid
environmental pollution. For that, membrane distillation appears as an advanced technique …

In-line granular filtration for mitigating gypsum scaling in membrane distillation

Y Zhu, F Qu, D Qu, Z Yan, B Liu, C Liu, H Chang… - Journal of Membrane …, 2025 - Elsevier
Mineral scaling and scaling-induced wetting are major challenges for the widespread
application of membrane distillation (MD) in saline wastewater treatment. For the first time …

New insights into the influence of pre-oxidation on membrane fouling during nanofiltration of brackish water considering inorganic-organic complexation and oxidant …

D Lin, H Zhang, Z Wang, D Xu, G Li, M Ulbricht… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Even though pre-oxidation is usually considered as a promising method to alleviate
membrane fouling, information on performance and inner mechanisms of pre-oxidation …

Microbubble aeration enhances performance of vacuum membrane distillation desalination by alleviating membrane scaling

Y Ye, S Yu, B Liu, Q Xia, G Liu, P Li - Water research, 2019 - Elsevier
Membrane fouling, especially inorganic fouling due to salt crystal formation and deposition
on the membrane surface, is still a major technical issue in membrane distillation (MD) …

Concentrating brine for lithium recovery using GO composite pervaporation membranes

W Cha-umpong, Q Li, A Razmjou, V Chen - Desalination, 2021 - Elsevier
The extraction process of highly demanded lithium from brine normally starts with a solar
evaporation pond to increase the lithium concentration, which takes more than a year and is …

The potential of hollow fiber vacuum multi-effect membrane distillation for brine treatment

Q Li, A Omar, W Cha-Umpong, Q Liu, X Li, J Wen… - Applied Energy, 2020 - Elsevier
Vacuum membrane distillation can extract pure water from degraded sources, but it requires
relatively high energy inputs as compared to other thermal-driven technologies. As a …

Modification of the distribution of humic acid complexations by introducing microbubbles to membrane distillation process for effective membrane fouling alleviation

X Wang, P Li, Y Ye, Y Liu, E Li, Q Xia, S Yu - Journal of Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Membrane fouling caused by inorganic ions and natural organic matters (NOMs) has been a
severe issue in membrane distillation. Microbubble aeration (MB) is a promising technology …

Ceramic membrane distillation for desalination

ZS Tai, MH Abd Aziz, MHD Othman… - Separation & …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Membrane distillation (MD) is a thermally driven membranous process and in the recent
years, it has received increasing attention in desalination. Generally, polymeric membranes …

Air bubbling assisted solar-driven submerged vacuum membrane distillation for aquaculture seawater desalination

YS Chang, AL Ahmad, CP Leo, CJC Derek… - Journal of Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Submerged vacuum membrane distillation (S-VMD) was proposed in this work to desalinate
aquaculture seawater. In this S-VMD without feed-pumping system, the hydrophobic hollow …