A critical review of point-of-use drinking water treatment in the United States

J Wu, M Cao, D Tong, Z Finkelstein, EMV Hoek - NPJ Clean Water, 2021 - nature.com
Ensuring safe water supply for communities across the United States is a growing challenge
due to aging infrastructure, impaired source water, strained community finances, etc. In …

Challenges and solutions for global water scarcity

H Shemer, S Wald, R Semiat - Membranes, 2023 - mdpi.com
Climate change, global population growth, and rising standards of living have put immense
strain on natural resources, resulting in the unsecured availability of water as an existential …

Assessing the potential of highly permeable reverse osmosis membranes for desalination: Specific energy and footprint analysis

YJ Lim, Y Ma, JW Chew, R Wang - Desalination, 2022 - Elsevier
The ultra-permeable membranes (UPMs) are expected to reduce the specific energy
consumption (SEC) of desalination, but the potential of UPMs in hollow fiber configuration …

Desalinated brackish water with improved mineral composition using monovalent-selective nanofiltration followed by reverse osmosis

P Nativ, O Leifman, O Lahav, R Epsztein - Desalination, 2021 - Elsevier
Typical product water from desalination plants is depleted of salts and important minerals
that are essential for its final consumption as well as its conveyance in the distribution …

Membrane technology as an emergency response against drinking water shortage in scenarios of dam failure

RN Guimarães, VR Moreira, MCS Amaral - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
With dam failure events, there can be changes in water quality and difficulties in the
operation of water treatment plants (WTPs) since they were not designed for water treatment …

An integrated membrane distillation, photocatalysis and polyelectrolyte-enhanced ultrafiltration process for arsenic remediation at point-of-use

S Santoro, P Timpano, AH Avci, P Argurio… - Desalination, 2021 - Elsevier
Arsenic contamination of drinking water is a result of natural and/or anthropogenic activities,
causing undesirable detrimental effects on the environment and the human health. Herein …

[HTML][HTML] Agro-physiological and soil microbial responses to desalinated seawater irrigation in two crops

A Vera, JL Moreno, C García, E Nicolás… - … and Environmental Safety, 2023 - Elsevier
Irrigation with desalinated seawater (DSW) is a potential solution for addressing water
scarcity in semiarid regions across the globe. However, this strategy may compromise the …

[HTML][HTML] A hybrid process combining ion exchange resin and bipolar membrane electrodialysis for reverse osmosis remineralization

AAM Abusultan, JA Wood, T Sainio, AJB Kemperman… - Desalination, 2024 - Elsevier
A new reverse osmosis (RO) permeate remineralization process combining ion exchange
resin and bipolar membrane electrodialysis (BMED) was developed. Its feasibility for …

[HTML][HTML] Remineralization of desalinated water: duality roles of H2SO4 and CO2 injection during calco-carbonic equilibrium of osmosis water

MG Biyoune, B Bouargane, A Atbir, MG Uddin… - Results in …, 2024 - Elsevier
In a desalination station, the remineralization step of osmosis water (OW) is essential to
return to produced water its calco-carbonic equilibrium. For this, the use of calcite CaCO 3 or …

[HTML][HTML] Pathways to magnesium supplementation of drinking water: An overview of the saline water conversion corporation experience

CM Fellows, AA Al Hamzah, S Ihm - Chemical Engineering Journal …, 2023 - Elsevier
Magnesium (Mg) in drinking water is essential for human health, with low concentrations in
drinking water being reported to be correlated with poor cardiovascular health outcomes …