Hypersaline brines are of growing environmental concern. While high-salinity desalination
and zero liquid discharge (ZLD) are increasingly attractive treatment options, the high salt …

Gas hydrates have received considerable attention due to their important role in flow
assurance for the oil and gas industry, their extensive natural occurrence on Earth and …

Water resource management impacts almost all aspects of the economy, in particular health,
food production and security, domestic water supply and sanitation, energy, industry and …

The scarcity of clean water sources has become a global concern in the present-day society.
This has driven to the extraction of fresh water from produced water (PW), from the oil and …

The solar and waste heat-powered humidification-dehumidification (HDH) desalination
systems are gaining much significance owing to the alarming effects of global warming and …

Owing to the substantial deposits and widespread applications of gas hydrates, research in
gas hydrates has been increasing in recent decades. The inherent excellent physiochemical …

Freeze desalination (FD) is an emerging technology to overcome limitations of membrane-
and thermal-energy-based desalination processes. Extant studies concerning FD have …

Water scarcity is viewed as the top global risk for the next decade. One way to resolve water
shortage is desalination which expends energy to derive fresh water from the vast amount of …

The production of oil and gas can lead to creation of wastewater termed as produced water.
In certain cases, produced water can be greater in volume than the oil or gas itself. Huge …

Carbon capture, utilization, and storage (CCUS) technologies are important to provide clean
energy and mitigate climate change to meet the rising electricity demand due to the …