Membrane distillation hybrids for water production and energy efficiency enhancement: A critical review

N Ghaffour, S Soukane, JG Lee, Y Kim, A Alpatova - Applied Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
With an ever-increasing demand in energy, constrained by strict environmental regulations,
process development faces stringent design requirements further limited by intrinsic …

Recent developments in pressure retarded osmosis for desalination and power generation

M Tawalbeh, A Al-Othman, N Abdelwahab… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
When two streams of different salinities are mixed, Gibbs free energy of mixing is released.
This energy can be harvested and further converted to electric energy through pressure …

Salinity gradient energy generation by pressure retarded osmosis: A review

RR Gonzales, A Abdel-Wahab, S Adham, DS Han… - Desalination, 2021 - Elsevier
Pressure retarded osmosis (PRO) has gained attention due to its use as a salinity gradient
energy-generating membrane process. This process can convert difference in salinity …

Multistage vacuum membrane distillation (MSVMD) systems for high salinity applications

HW Chung, J Swaminathan, DM Warsinger - Journal of Membrane …, 2016 - Elsevier
Multistage membrane distillation (MD) systems can have significantly higher efficiencies
than their single stage counterparts. However, multistage MD system design has received …

Pressure retarded osmosis: Advancement, challenges and potential

N AlZainati, H Saleem, A Altaee, SJ Zaidi… - Journal of Water …, 2021 - Elsevier
An excessive amount of renewable energy could be possibly produced when solutions of
dissimilar salinities are combined simultaneously in a semipermeable membrane. The …

Enhanced ammonia recovery from wastewater by Nafion membrane with highly porous honeycomb nanostructure and its mechanism in membrane distillation

J Guo, JG Lee, T Tan, J Yeo, PW Wong… - Journal of Membrane …, 2019 - Elsevier
Removing nitrogen from wastewater by conventional treatment methods requires substantial
energy, only to release it back to the atmosphere as gaseous nitrogen. Herein, we …

A novel multi-stage direct contact membrane distillation module: Design, experimental and theoretical approaches

JG Lee, WS Kim, JS Choi, N Ghaffour, YD Kim - Water research, 2016 - Elsevier
An economic desalination system with a small scale and footprint for remote areas, which
have a limited and inadequate water supply, insufficient water treatment and low …

Recent advances in osmotic energy generation via pressure-retarded osmosis (PRO): a review

J Kim, K Jeong, MJ Park, HK Shon, JH Kim - Energies, 2015 - mdpi.com
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 …

Interconnection between renewable energy technologies and water treatment processes

PJ Choi, J Lee, A Jang - Water Research, 2024 - Elsevier
The renewable-energy-based water-energy nexus is a promising approach that contributes
to climate change mitigation. Increasing concerns on GHG emission and energy demand …

Parallel and series multistage air gap membrane distillation

AE Khalifa, SM Alawad, MA Antar - Desalination, 2017 - Elsevier
The performance of multistage air gap membrane distillation (MS-AGMD) system is
experimentally investigated. The effects of feed temperature and flow rate, coolant …