Solar-powered sustainable water production: state-of-the-art technologies for sunlight–energy–water nexus

Z Li, X Xu, X Sheng, P Lin, J Tang, L Pan, YV Kaneti… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Alternative water resources (seawater, brackish water, atmospheric water, sewage, etc.) can
be converted into clean freshwater via high-efficiency, energy-saving, and cost-effective …

The advent of thermoplasmonic membrane distillation

S Santoro, AH Avci, A Politano, E Curcio - Chemical Society Reviews, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Freshwater scarcity is a vital societal challenge related to climate change, population
pressure, and agricultural and industrial demands. Therefore, sustainable desalination …

Photothermal membrane distillation toward solar water production

M Gao, CK Peh, FL Meng, GW Ho - Small Methods, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Freshwater production is one of the biggest global challenges today. Though desalination
can provide a climate‐independent source of clean water, the process requires a high …

Membranes in Solar‐Driven Evaporation: Design Principles and Applications

HC Yang, F Lu, HN Li, C Zhang… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Solar‐driven evaporation process brings exciting opportunities to recover clean water and
resources in a sustainable way from diverse sources like seawater and wastewater …

High‐yield and low‐cost solar water purification via hydrogel‐based membrane distillation

H Lu, W Shi, F Zhao, W Zhang, P Zhang… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
As an eco‐friendly means, solar water purification has attracted substantial research interest
regarding material design, system engineering, and energy management. However, the low …

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 driven by solar energy: a review

SM Shalaby, AE Kabeel, HF Abosheiasha… - Journal of Cleaner …, 2022 - Elsevier
Membrane distillation (MD) is considered a promising technology that is expected to
compete with reverse osmosis (RO) for water desalination. The superiority of MD is mainly …

Cellulose nanomaterials in interfacial evaporators for desalination: a “natural” choice

S Cao, P Rathi, X Wu, D Ghim, YS Jun… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Herein, the recent advances in realizing highly efficient cellulose‐based solar evaporators
for alleviating the global water crisis are summarized. Fresh water scarcity is one of the most …

Progress of photothermal membrane distillation for decentralized desalination: A review

AG Razaqpur, Y Wang, X Liao, Y Liao, R Wang - Water Research, 2021 - Elsevier
The conventional membrane distillation (MD) process is accompanied by large energy
consumption, low thermal efficiency and inevitable requirements of centralized …

Emerging heat-localized solar distillation systems: solar interfacial distillation VS photothermal membrane distillation

S Tian, X Li, J Ren, Z Zhou, F Wang, K Shi, J Xu, T Gu… - Desalination, 2024 - Elsevier
Heat-localized solar distillation (HLSD) is an emerging environmentally-friendly high-
efficiency distillation technology for clean water production. Solar interfacial distillation (SID) …