[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 …

Recent advances in polymer and polymer composite membranes for reverse and forward osmosis processes

D Li, Y Yan, H Wang - Progress in polymer science, 2016 - Elsevier
Semipermeable membranes are the core elements for membrane water desalination
technologies such as commercial reverse osmosis (RO) process and emerging forward …

Recent advances in functionalized polymer membranes for biofouling control and mitigation in forward osmosis

MD Firouzjaei, SF Seyedpour, SA Aktij… - Journal of Membrane …, 2020 - Elsevier
Forward osmosis (FO) is an osmotically driven process widely studied for water desalination,
wastewater treatment, and water reuse, as well as dilution and concentration of aqueous …

High-performance thin-film composite membrane with an ultrathin spray-coated carbon nanotube interlayer

Z Zhou, Y Hu, C Boo, Z Liu, J Li, L Deng… - … Science & Technology …, 2018 - ACS Publications
We fabricated a thin-film composite (TFC) forward osmosis (FO) membrane with an ultrathin
spray-coated carbon nanotube (CNT) interlayer. The impact of the CNT interlayer on the …

Research progress in external field intensification of forward osmosis process for water treatment: A critical review

J Song, M Yan, J Ye, S Zheng, LY Ee, Z Wang, J Li… - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Forward osmosis (FO) is an emerging permeation-driven membrane technology that
manifests advantages of low energy consumption, low operating pressure, and …

Breaking temperature barrier: Highly thermally heat resistant polymeric membranes for sustainable water and wastewater treatment

S Mashhadikhan, R Ahmadi, AE Amooghin… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2024 - Elsevier
In recent years, high-temperature water/wastewater treatment has become an emerging
area of high priority interest for industries such as oil and gas, food production, and power …

Advances in forward osmosis membranes: Altering the sub-layer structure via recent fabrication and chemical modification approaches

WA Suwaileh, DJ Johnson, S Sarp, N Hilal - Desalination, 2018 - Elsevier
The forward osmosis process has obtained renewed interest nowadays and it might become
an alternative solution for many industrial applications to meet the current and future …

Compactness-tailored hollow fiber loose nanofiltration separation layers based on “chemical crosslinking and metal ion coordination” for selective dye separation

L Bian, C Shen, C Song, S Zhang, Z Cui, F Yan… - Journal of Membrane …, 2021 - Elsevier
In this work, three types of hollow fiber loose nanofiltration membranes (LNFs) with different
compactness in an “outside-in” mode were prepared via “chemical crosslinking and metal …

Tackle reverse solute flux in forward osmosis towards sustainable water recovery: reduction and perspectives

S Zou, M Qin, Z He - Water research, 2019 - Elsevier
Forward osmosis (FO) has emerged as a potentially energy-efficient membrane treatment
technology to yield high-quality reusable water from various wastewater/saline water …

Continuous juice concentration by integrating forward osmosis with membrane distillation using potassium sorbate preservative as a draw solute

X An, Y Hu, N Wang, Z Zhou, Z Liu - Journal of membrane science, 2019 - Elsevier
A green and sustainable technique is desired for juice concentration to increase its shelf life
and save the transportation cost. In this study, we investigated an integrated forward …