The enormous potential of harvesting energy from salinity gradients has been discussed for
decades, and pressure-retarded osmosis (PRO) is being increasingly investigated as a …

Alongside the rising global water demand, continued stress on current water supplies has
sparked interest in using nontraditional source waters for energy, agriculture, industry, and …

A theoretical framework is proposed to model the observed water/salt permeability,
diffusivity, and sorption selectivity tradeoff relationships with water permeability, diffusion …

By employing seawater desalination brine (SWBr) and wastewater brine (WWBr) as the feed
pair, membrane fouling behaviors as well as antifouling and cleaning strategies for the state …

Global energy consumption has been highly dependent on fossil fuels which cause severe
climate change and, therefore, the exploration of new technologies to produce effective …

Salinity gradient power has been identified as a promising new renewable energy
technology, but previous attempts to commercialize the technology have failed due to low …

The switchable polarity solvent (SPS) 1-cyclohexylpiperidine (CHP) was demonstrated as a
viable draw solute for osmotically driven membrane processes. The SPS draw solution was …

The proposed system uses the thermal energy storage characteristic of the solar pond to
power a multi-effect desalination (MED) process with a total fresh water production of …

Pressure-retarded osmosis (PRO) is viewed as a highly promising renewable energy
process that generates energy without carbon emissions in the age of the climate change …

Despite many kinds of research on pressure-retarded osmosis (PRO), feasibility studies for
PRO are still insufficient. To provide a better understanding of PRO-hybridized processes …