Metal-organic frameworks for energy conversion and water harvesting: A bridge between thermal engineering and material science

LG Gordeeva, YD Tu, Q Pan, ML Palash, BB Saha… - Nano Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Adsorption technologies for Heat Conversion (AHC) and Water Harvesting (AWH)
hold great potential for energy management because they can utilize renewable energy or …

Recent advances and future prospects in direct solar desalination systems using membrane distillation technology

A Bamasag, E Almatrafi, T Alqahtani, P Phelan… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2023 - Elsevier
Water desalination has become one of the viable solutions for water shortages in regions
with limited natural resources. In the last two decades, more attention has been paid to …

Membrane distillation crystallization technology for zero liquid discharge and resource recovery: Opportunities, challenges and futuristic perspectives

A Yadav, PK Labhasetwar, VK Shahi - Science of The Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Water resources are getting limited, which emphasises the need for the reuse of wastewater.
The conventional waste (water) treatment methods such as reverse osmosis (RO) and multi …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] A comprehensive review of pre-and post-treatment approaches to achieve sustainable desalination for different water streams

K Poirier, M Lotfi, K Garg, K Patchigolla, EJ Anthony… - Desalination, 2023 - Elsevier
Desalination is an energy intensive process requiring adequate pre-and post-treatment. The
novelty of this paper is that it jointly reviews the technologies for pre-treatment, desalination …

[HTML][HTML] A zero liquid discharge system integrating multi-effect distillation and evaporative crystallization for desalination brine treatment

Q Chen, M Burhan, MW Shahzad, D Ybyraiymkul… - Desalination, 2021 - Elsevier
With growing global desalination capacity, brine from desalination plants has become an
environmental threat to the ecosystems. One sustainable method for brine treatment is to …

[HTML][HTML] Assessing the potential and limitations of membrane-based technologies for the treatment of oilfield produced water

AE Mansi, SM El-Marsafy, Y Elhenawy… - Alexandria Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study, the recent advances in standalone membrane technologies were investigated
for produced water treatment and reclamation. The effect of operating parameters (ie …

Design of zero liquid discharge desalination (ZLDD) systems consisting of freeze desalination, membrane distillation, and crystallization powered by green energies

KJ Lu, ZL Cheng, J Chang, L Luo, TS Chung - Desalination, 2019 - Elsevier
Zero liquid discharge desalination (ZLDD) is a sustainable solution to the global water
scarcity problem. It provides high water recovery, zero waste generation and valuable salt …

Membrane distillation for wastewater treatment: Current trends, challenges and prospects of dense membrane distillation

H Julian, N Nurgirisia, G Qiu, YP Ting… - Journal of Water Process …, 2022 - Elsevier
Membrane distillation (MD) has excellent potential for wastewater treatment, and studies on
this subject have increased recently. The unique features of MD to pass only volatile …

Recovery of water and minerals from shale gas produced water by membrane distillation crystallization

J Kim, J Kim, S Hong - Water research, 2018 - Elsevier
Shale gas produced water (SGPW) treatment imposes greater technical challenges because
of its high concentration of various contaminants. Membrane distillation crystallization (MDC) …