Drivers, challenges, and emerging technologies for desalination of high-salinity brines: A critical review

KM Shah, IH Billinge, X Chen, H Fan, Y Huang… - Desalination, 2022 - Elsevier
Hypersaline brines are of growing environmental concern. While high-salinity desalination
and zero liquid discharge (ZLD) are increasingly attractive treatment options, the high salt …

The advent of thermoplasmonic membrane distillation

S Santoro, AH Avci, A Politano, E Curcio - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Freshwater scarcity is a vital societal challenge related to climate change, population
pressure, and agricultural and industrial demands. Therefore, sustainable desalination …

Transforming Ti3C2Tx MXene's intrinsic hydrophilicity into superhydrophobicity for efficient photothermal membrane desalination

B Zhang, PW Wong, J Guo, Y Zhou, Y Wang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Owing to its 100% theoretical salt rejection capability, membrane distillation (MD) has
emerged as a promising seawater desalination approach to address freshwater scarcity …

Highly salt‐resistant 3D hydrogel evaporator for continuous solar desalination via localized crystallization

L Li, N He, B Jiang, K Yu, Q Zhang… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The emerging solar desalination by interfacial evaporation shows great potential for
alleviating the global freshwater crisis. However, salt deposition on the whole evaporation …

Inorganic scaling in membrane desalination: models, mechanisms, and characterization methods

J Rolf, T Cao, X Huang, C Boo, Q Li… - … Science & Technology, 2022 - ACS Publications
Inorganic scaling caused by precipitation of sparingly soluble salts at supersaturation is a
common but critical issue, limiting the efficiency of membrane-based desalination and brine …

Pore wetting in membrane distillation: A comprehensive review

H Chamani, J Woloszyn, T Matsuura, D Rana… - Progress in Materials …, 2021 - Elsevier
Membrane distillation (MD) is an emerging technology for the desalination of brines. In some
cases, liquid penetrates into the pores of the membrane, causing pore wetting. MD's …

Recent progress in electrospun nanofibers for the membrane distillation of hypersaline wastewaters

D Xu, Z Zhu, J Li - Advanced Fiber Materials, 2022 - Springer
Membrane distillation (MD) utilizing low-grade thermal energy can be used to effectively
desalinate hypersaline brines with a high freshwater recovery for water reuse. Membrane …

Desalination by membrane pervaporation: A review

Y Li, ER Thomas, MH Molina, S Mann, WS Walker… - Desalination, 2023 - Elsevier
Pervaporation is a vapor pressure-driven membrane desalination process that can
desalinate water with greater total dissolved solids than conventional reverse osmosis. This …

Integrated membrane electrochemical reactor-membrane distillation process for enhanced landfill leachate treatment

Z Yan, Z Zhu, H Chang, G Fan, Q Wang, X Fu, F Qu… - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Treatment of recalcitrant landfill leachate (LFL) induces huge energy consumption
and carbon emissions due to its complex composition. Although membrane distillation (MD) …

Recent advances and future prospects in direct solar desalination systems using membrane distillation technology

A Bamasag, E Almatrafi, T Alqahtani, P Phelan… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2023 - Elsevier
Water desalination has become one of the viable solutions for water shortages in regions
with limited natural resources. In the last two decades, more attention has been paid to …