Reverse osmosis desalination systems powered by solar energy: Preheating techniques and brine disposal challenges–A detailed review

SM Shalaby, SW Sharshir, AE Kabeel… - Energy Conversion and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Globally, reverse osmosis desalination systems are widely utilized as they have the
cheapest freshwater production cost. On the contrary, reverse osmosis systems have high …

Current progress in semi-batch reverse osmosis for brackish water desalination

J Kim, L Dong, HK Shon, K Park - Desalination, 2024 - Elsevier
Semi-batch reverse osmosis (SBRO) is an innovative membrane process renowned for its
compact system and high recovery in desalination and water reuse. While academic …

Temporally multi-staged batch counterflow reverse osmosis

A Das, AN Beni, C Bernal-Botero, DM Warsinger - Desalination, 2024 - Elsevier
Batch reverse osmosis (RO) is a desalination process that can follow the osmotic pressure of
gradually concentrating feed to achieve high energy efficiency. Its limitation of treating high …

Techno-economic analysis of integrated bipolar membrane electrodialysis and batch reverse osmosis for water and chemical recovery from dairy wastewater

D Ankoliya, A Mudgal, MK Sinha, P Davies… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2023 - Elsevier
Bipolar membrane electrodialysis (BMED) for acid and base recovery and batch reverse
osmosis (BRO) for water recovery are analyzed technically and economically as a dairy …

Assessment of an innovative hybrid system of PVT-driven RO desalination unit integrated with solar dish concentrator as preheating unit

M Abdelgaied, AS Abdullah, AE Kabeel… - Energy Conversion and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The specific power consumption in RO desalination plants is one of the most effective
parameters involved in optimizing the design and operation of these plants for the treatment …

[HTML][HTML] A free-piston batch reverse osmosis (RO) system for brackish water desalination: Experimental study and model validation

E Hosseinipour, K Park, L Burlace, T Naughton… - Desalination, 2022 - Elsevier
Batch RO is designed to achieve high energy efficiency and high recovery in desalination.
However, so far relatively few experiments on batch RO have been reported. Here we …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of membrane properties on the performance of batch reverse osmosis (RO): The potential to minimize energy consumption

E Hosseinipour, PA Davies - Desalination, 2024 - Elsevier
Efforts to improve the performance of RO desalination include new membranes and new
system configurations. Batch RO is an innovative configuration which helps to minimize …

Desalination, Water Re-use, and Halophyte Cultivation in Salinized Regions: A Highly Productive Groundwater Treatment System

K Park, A Mudgal, V Mudgal, M Sagi… - Environmental …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Groundwater salinization is a problem affecting access to water in many world regions.
Though desalination by conventional reverse osmosis (RO) can upgrade groundwater …

[HTML][HTML] Variable operation of a renewable energy-driven reverse osmosis system using model predictive control and variable recovery: Towards large-scale …

MT Mito, X Ma, H Albuflasa, PA Davies - Desalination, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Powering Reverse Osmosis (RO) systems with Renewable Energy (RE) is essential
for decarbonising water production. Integration of RE requires large-scale RO plants to …

Pressure exchanger batch reverse osmosis with zero downtime operation

A Das, AK Rao, S Alnajdi, DM Warsinger - Desalination, 2024 - Elsevier
Batch reverse osmosis is a transient, pressure-driven desalination process that concentrates
a given volume of feed over time by continuously recirculating the brine through the …