Drivers, challenges, and emerging technologies for desalination of high-salinity brines: A critical review

KM Shah, IH Billinge, X Chen, H Fan, Y Huang… - Desalination, 2022 - Elsevier
Hypersaline brines are of growing environmental concern. While high-salinity desalination
and zero liquid discharge (ZLD) are increasingly attractive treatment options, the high salt …

[HTML][HTML] Reviewing wood-based solar-driven interfacial evaporators for desalination

Y Dong, Y Tan, K Wang, Y Cai, J Li, C Sonne, C Li - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Solar‒driven interfacial water evaporation is a convenient and efficient strategy for
harvesting solar energy and desalinating seawater. However, the design and fabrication of …

[HTML][HTML] State-of-the-art of renewable energy sources used in water desalination: Present and future prospects

J Bundschuh, M Kaczmarczyk, N Ghaffour… - Desalination, 2021 - Elsevier
The last decade has seen a worldwide increase in the use of alternative energy sources,
especially renewable energy (RE), including its application in desalination. In the past many …

Emerging desalination technologies: Current status, challenges and future trends

FE Ahmed, A Khalil, N Hilal - Desalination, 2021 - Elsevier
Emerging technologies present many new possibilities for diversifying the desalination
industry, which is currently dominated by thermal desalination, and reverse osmosis. In this …

Does environmental policy stringency reduce CO2 emissions? Evidence from high-polluted economies

Q Yirong - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022 - Elsevier
The main objective of this study is to get the asymmetric effects of environmental policy
stringency on CO2 emissions in top emitter's economies named China, USA, India, Russia …

Cellulose‐based Interfacial Solar Evaporators: Structural Regulation and Performance Manipulation

W Wu, Y Xu, X Ma, Z Tian, C Zhang… - Advanced Functional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The shortage of freshwater resources has become a major obstacle threatening human
development, and directly utilizing solar energy by solar evaporators is emerging as a …

Salt-rejecting solar interfacial evaporation

G Liu, T Chen, J Xu, G Yao, J Xie, Y Cheng… - Cell Reports Physical …, 2021 - cell.com
Solar evaporation offers a promising approach to drive the distillation process, and
nanotechnology may help overcome operational issues such as salt fouling. Here, we …

Synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials for application in cost-effective electrochemical devices

HM Saleh, AI Hassan - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
Nanomaterials have gained significant attention as a remarkable class of materials due to
their unique properties and the fact that they encompass a wide range of samples with at …

Hydrate based desalination for sustainable water treatment: A review

SM Montazeri, G Kolliopoulos - Desalination, 2022 - Elsevier
Desalination processes are key to untangle the energy-water-environment nexus, to attain a
green equitable world, and to address water scarcity on all continents. However …

Nanofluidic osmotic power generators–advanced nanoporous membranes and nanochannels for blue energy harvesting

G Laucirica, ME Toimil-Molares, C Trautmann… - Chemical …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The increase of energy demand added to the concern for environmental pollution linked to
energy generation based on the combustion of fossil fuels has motivated the study and …