Recent progress in green thin film membrane based materials for desalination: design, properties and applications

S Raza, A Hayat, T Bashir, E Ghasali, AAA Hafez… - Desalination, 2024 - Elsevier
The urgent need for sustainable solutions to address freshwater scarcity has encouraged
significant research interest in green thin film membrane-based materials (GTFM) for …

Stable mineral recrystallization in low temperature aqueous systems: A critical review

CA Gorski, MS Fantle - Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta, 2017 - Elsevier
Minerals may undergo recrystallization reactions in low temperature (< 100° C) aqueous
systems, during which they exchange isotopes and trace elements with the dissolved …

Environmental signatures and effects of an oil and gas wastewater spill in the Williston Basin, North Dakota

IM Cozzarelli, KJ Skalak, DB Kent, MA Engle… - Science of The Total …, 2017 - Elsevier
Wastewaters from oil and gas development pose largely unknown risks to environmental
resources. In January 2015, 11.4 ML (million liters) of wastewater (300 g/L TDS) from oil …

Reactivity of the calcite–water-interface, from molecular scale processes to geochemical engineering

F Heberling, D Bosbach, JD Eckhardt, U Fischer… - Applied …, 2014 - Elsevier
Surface reactions on calcite play an important role in geochemical and environmental
systems, as well as many areas of industry. In this review, we present investigations of …

Accurate rates of the complex mechanisms for growth and dissolution of minerals using a combination of rare-event theories

AG Stack, P Raiteri, JD Gale - Journal of the American Chemical …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Mineral growth and dissolution are often treated as occurring via a single reversible process
that governs the rate of reaction. We show that multiple distinct intermediate states can occur …

Industrial Deployment of Reactive Transport Simulation: An Application to Uranium In situ Recovery

V Lagneau, O Regnault… - Reviews in Mineralogy …, 2019 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The development of reactive transport soared during the 1990's, driven by the necessity to
demonstrate the long-term efficiency of radioactive waste repositories (Bildstein et al. 2019; …

[HTML][HTML] Adsorption of Ba and 226Ra on illite: A comparative experimental and modelling study

MM Fernandes, M Klinkenberg, B Baeyens… - Applied …, 2023 - Elsevier
Illite, smectite and illite/smectite mixed layers are major phases in various argillaceous rock
formations foreseen as potential host rocks for the deep geological disposal of high-level …

Isotopic fractionation during congruent dissolution, precipitation and at equilibrium: Evidence from Mg isotopes

CR Pearce, GD Saldi, J Schott, EH Oelkers - Geochimica et Cosmochimica …, 2012 - Elsevier
This study provides direct experimental evidence of magnesium (Mg) isotope fractionation
between an aqueous fluid and magnesite during its congruent dissolution, precipitation and …

Assessment of 226Ra and U colloidal transport in a mining environment

M Reymond, M Descostes, C Besançon, M Leermakers… - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
The colloidal transport of trace (Fe, Al, Ba, Pb, Sr, U) and ultra-trace (226 Ra) elements was
studied in a mining environment. An original approach combining 0.45 μm filtered water …

Extended X-ray absorption fine structure spectroscopy measurements and ab initio molecular dynamics simulations reveal the hydration structure of the radium (II) ion

A Yamaguchi, K Nagata, K Kobayashi, K Tanaka… - Iscience, 2022 - cell.com
Radium is refocused from the viewpoint of an environmental pollutant and cancer therapy
using alpha particles, where it mainly exists as a hydrated ion. We investigated the radium …