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 …

State-of-the-art methods for overcoming temperature polarization in membrane distillation process: A review

A Anvari, AA Yancheshme, KM Kekre… - Journal of membrane …, 2020 - Elsevier
Membrane distillation (MD) technology has been mainly used as a treatment method for
saline or contaminated wastewater. Despite the rapid progress in material engineering and …

A review of membrane wettability for the treatment of saline water deploying membrane distillation

M Yao, LD Tijing, G Naidu, SH Kim, H Matsuyama… - Desalination, 2020 - Elsevier
Membrane distillation (MD) is an alternative membrane technology that offers the capacity to
treat highly saline water including industrial wastewater, seawater, brine water from other …

Membrane synthesis for membrane distillation: A review

L Eykens, K De Sitter, C Dotremont, L Pinoy… - Separation and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Membrane distillation (MD) is an emerging thermal separation technique, using a
hydrophobic microporous membrane. Initially, the process used MF membranes with a …

Recent advances in membrane distillation processes: Membrane development, configuration design and application exploring

P Wang, TS Chung - Journal of membrane science, 2015 - Elsevier
Membrane distillation (MD) is a separation process based on the vapor transport across the
hydrophobic microporous membrane driven by the vapor pressure gradient across the …

Comprehensive review of membrane design and synthesis for membrane distillation

M Qasim, IU Samad, NA Darwish, N Hilal - Desalination, 2021 - Elsevier
Water scarcity is a grand challenge that requires continuous exploration of new desalination
technologies in order to augment the global supply of fresh water. In this context, membrane …

[HTML][HTML] Materials and membrane technologies for water and energy sustainability

NL Le, SP Nunes - Sustainable Materials and Technologies, 2016 - Elsevier
Water and energy have always been crucial for the world's social and economic growth.
Their supply and use must be sustainable. This review discusses opportunities for …

Polymeric membranes for desalination using membrane distillation: A review

J Ravi, MHD Othman, T Matsuura, MR Bilad… - Desalination, 2020 - Elsevier
Membrane distillation (MD) is a burgeoning membrane technology that has gained immense
interest among membrane scientists worldwide. Despite a slow start, both the theoretical …

Design and preparation of porous polymers

D Wu, F Xu, B Sun, R Fu, H He… - Chemical …, 2012 - ACS Publications
Porosity can be viewed as a profound concept that helps us to understand nature and create
advanced structures. There are some interesting examples in nature, such as hollow …

Rational design of materials interface at nanoscale towards intelligent oil–water separation

M Ge, C Cao, J Huang, X Zhang, Y Tang, X Zhou… - Nanoscale …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Oil–water separation is critical for the water treatment of oily wastewater or oil-spill
accidents. The oil contamination in water not only induces severe water pollution but also …