Fouling, performance and cost analysis of membrane-based water desalination technologies: A critical review

LN Nthunya, MF Bopape, OT Mahlangu… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
While water is a key resource required to sustain life, freshwater sources and aquifers are
being depleted at an alarming rate. As a mitigation strategy, saline water desalination is …

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 …

Critical review on membrane designs for enhanced flux performance in membrane distillation

ZS Tai, MHD Othman, KN Koo, J Jaafar - Desalination, 2023 - Elsevier
Membrane distillation (MD) is a hybrid of thermal and membrane processes that utilizes a
hydrophobic membrane to separate volatile solutes from feed solution at fairly high …

Potential of nanocellulose for wastewater treatment

R Reshmy, D Thomas, E Philip, SA Paul, A Madhavan… - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
Wastewater management has significant interest worldwide to establish viable treatment
techniques to ensure the availability of clean water. The specialities of nanocellulose for this …

Photocatalytic TiO2 incorporated PVDF-co-HFP UV-cleaning mixed matrix membranes for effective removal of dyes from synthetic wastewater system via membrane …

A Yadav, P Sharma, AB Panda, VK Shahi - Journal of Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
We report membranes with UV-cleaning properties by incorporating photocatalytic porous
TiO 2 sheets (PTS)(0–5 wt%) in the PVDF-co-HFP matrix. PTS were synthesized using …

Future perspectives of nanocellulose-based membrane for water treatment

HF Tan, BS Ooi, CP Leo - Journal of water process engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
Membranes are useful in water recovery from polluted water resources, but their separation
performance and durability are limited by the membrane materials and additives in the …

Nanocelluloses as new generation materials: Natural resources, structure-related properties, engineering nanostructures, and technical challenges

A Barhoum, VK Rastogi, BK Mahur, A Rastogi… - Materials Today …, 2022 - Elsevier
Valorization of cellulosic biomass by processing it into functional nanoscale building blocks
enables more sustainable use of resources and an expansion of its potential applications …

Membrane distillation-crystallization for inland desalination brine treatment

E Balis, JC Griffin, SR Hiibel - Separation and Purification Technology, 2022 - Elsevier
Membrane distillation crystallization (MDC) is a promising technique for treatment of inland
desalination brines due to its ability to recover clean water and solid salts. The MDC system …

Nano-particles enhanced hydrophobic membranes: High-performance study for dye wastewater treatment using membrane distillation

AS Reddy, S Kalla, ZVP Murthy - Journal of Water Process Engineering, 2022 - Elsevier
The most common problem with hydrophobic membrane distillation membrane is the
deposition of foreign particles on the surface. This study aimed to fabricate nano-particles …

Membrane desalination for water treatment: recent developments, techno-economic evaluation and innovative approaches toward water sustainability

Y Cao, AT Nakhjiri, M Ghadiri - The European Physical Journal Plus, 2022 - epjplus.epj.org
Over the last decades, sustainable supplement of freshwater has been a global challenge
for growing population all over the world. Abundance of brackish/seawater on the surface of …