Renewable energy integrated desalination: A sustainable solution to overcome future fresh-water scarcity in India

S Manju, N Sagar - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
Fossil fuels such as coal, petroleum, and natural gas have been used as the major sources
of energy in the recent past. However, the negative environmental impacts associated with …

Functional graphene nanosheets: The next generation membranes for water desalination

KA Mahmoud, B Mansoor, A Mansour, M Khraisheh - Desalination, 2015 - Elsevier
Membrane desalination and water purification technologies have become important energy-
efficient means to secure fresh water resources around the globe. Among the significant …

Solar stills: A comprehensive review of designs, performance and material advances

DDW Rufuss, S Iniyan, L Suganthi… - … and sustainable energy …, 2016 - Elsevier
The demand for fresh water production is growing day by day with the increase in world
population and with industrial growth. Use of desalination technology is increasing to meet …

Water treatment by new-generation graphene materials: hope for bright future

I Ali, OML Alharbi, A Tkachev, E Galunin… - … Science and Pollution …, 2018 - Springer
Water is the most important and essential component of earth's ecosystem playing a vital
role in the proper functioning of flora and fauna. But, our water resources are contaminating …

Carbon nanotube membranes–strategies and challenges towards scalable manufacturing and practical separation applications

AO Rashed, A Merenda, T Kondo, M Lima… - Separation and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Carbon Nanotube (CNT) membranes were shown to offer great potential for separation
applications due to their attractive physicochemical, mechanical, thermal and electrical …

Tailored polymer nanocomposite membranes based on carbon, metal oxide and silicon nanomaterials: a review

MSSA Saraswathi, A Nagendran… - Journal of Materials …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Research into the structure, synthesis and properties of nanoscale materials has increased
at an enormous pace over the past decades since they have a wide variety of applications …

Recent advances in graphene-based nano-membranes for desalination

I Ali, SZ Hasan, H Garcia, MK Danquah… - Chemical Engineering …, 2024 - Elsevier
The demand for desalination is steadily rising due to dwindling fresh water sources and the
abundant saline water in our oceans. Among the various techniques available, membrane …

Investigation of raw and oxidized multiwalled carbon nanotubes in fabrication of reverse osmosis polyamide membranes for improvement in desalination and …

J Farahbakhsh, M Delnavaz, V Vatanpour - Desalination, 2017 - Elsevier
Multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) embedded polyamide reverse osmosis
membranes were synthesized by incorporating two kinds of raw and oxidized MWCNTs with …

Mechanics and molecular filtration performance of graphyne nanoweb membranes for selective water purification

S Lin, MJ Buehler - Nanoscale, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
Two-dimensional carbon materials such as the 2D nanoweb-like graphyne membrane are
promising as molecular sieves for energy and environmental applications. Based on the …

Desalination processes' efficiency and future roadmap

MW Shahzad, M Burhan, D Ybyraiymkul, KC Ng - Entropy, 2019 - mdpi.com
For future sustainable seawater desalination, the importance of achieving better energy
efficiency of the existing 19,500 commercial-scale desalination plants cannot be over …