Dramatically increased CO2 concentration from several point sources is perceived to cause severe greenhouse effect towards the serious ongoing global warming with associated climate destabilization, inducing undesirable natural calamities, melting of glaciers, and extreme weather patterns. CO2 capture and utilization (CCU) has received tremendous attention due to its significant role in intensifying global warming. Considering the lack of a timely review on the state-of-the-art progress of promising CCU techniques, developing an appropriate and prompt summary of such advanced techniques with a comprehensive understanding is necessary. Thus, it is imperative to provide a timely review, given the fast growth of sophisticated CO2 capture and utilization materials and their implementation. In this work, we critically summarized and comprehensively reviewed the characteristics and performance of both liquid and solid CO2 adsorbents with possible schemes for the improvement of their CO2 capture ability and advances in CO2 utilization. Their industrial applications in pre- and post-combustion CO2 capture as well as utilization were systematically discussed and compared. With our great effort, this review would be of significant importance for academic researchers for obtaining an overall understanding of the current developments and future trends of CCU. This work is bound to benefit researchers in fields relating to CCU and facilitate the progress of significant breakthroughs in both fundamental research and commercial applications to deliver perspective views for future scientific and industrial advances in CCU.

Industrial carbon dioxide capture and utilization: state of the art and future challenges

Desalination brine disposal methods and treatment technologies - A review.

Direct membrane filtration for wastewater treatment and resource recovery: A review.

This paper presents a comprehensive review of studies on electrodialysis (ED) applications in wastewater treatment, outlining the current status and the future prospect. ED is a membrane process of separation under the action of an electric field, where ions are selectively transported across ion-exchange membranes. ED of both conventional or unconventional fashion has been tested to treat several waste or spent aqueous solutions, including effluents from various industrial processes, municipal wastewater or salt water treatment plants, and animal farms. Properties such as selectivity, high separation efficiency, and chemical-free treatment make ED methods adequate for desalination and other treatments with significant environmental benefits. ED technologies can be used in operations of concentration, dilution, desalination, regeneration, and valorisation to reclaim wastewater and recover water and/or other products, e.g., heavy metal ions, salts, acids/bases, nutrients, and organics, or electrical energy. Intense research activity has been directed towards developing enhanced or novel systems, showing that zero or minimal liquid discharge approaches can be techno-economically affordable and competitive. Despite few real plants having been installed, recent developments are opening new routes for the large-scale use of ED techniques in a plethora of treatment processes for wastewater.

Electrodialysis Applications in Wastewater Treatment for Environmental Protection and Resources Recovery: A Systematic Review on Progress and Perspectives

Environmental impacts of desalination and brine treatment - Challenges and mitigation measures.

Multistage-batch electrodialysis to concentrate high-salinity solutions: Process optimisation, water transport, and energy consumption

Electrodialytic concentrating lithium salt from primary resource

Removal of heat stable salts (HSS) from spent alkanolamine wastewater using electrodialysis

A closed loop production of water insoluble organic acid using bipolar membranes electrodialysis (BMED)

A Sustainable Valorization of Neopentyl Glycol Salt Waste Containing Sodium Formate via Bipolar Membrane Electrodialysis

Haiyang Yan

Papers

Multistage-batch electrodialysis to concentrate high-salinity solutions: Process optimisation, water transport, and energy consumption

Electrodialytic concentrating lithium salt from primary resource

Removal of heat stable salts (HSS) from spent alkanolamine wastewater using electrodialysis

A closed loop production of water insoluble organic acid using bipolar membranes electrodialysis (BMED)

A Sustainable Valorization of Neopentyl Glycol Salt Waste Containing Sodium Formate via Bipolar Membrane Electrodialysis