Showing papers in "Desalination in 2019"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an updated review of studies related to membrane modules (plate and frame, tubular, spiral wound, and hollow fiber) and membrane characterization and discuss membrane cleaning and different pre-treatment technologies in place for RO desalination, such as feed-water pretreatment and biocides.

TL;DR: In this article, the most recent developments in photovoltaic powered reverse osmosis (PV-RO), solar thermal powered reverse Osmosis(ST-RO) and solar stills are discussed with respect to membrane materials, process configuration, energy recovery devices and energy storage.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an overview of the development and current trends in conventional and non-conventional RO pretreatment techniques whereby the techniques are critically reviewed to inform readers of potential improvements in such areas.

TL;DR: In this article, a critical review of the recent advances in capacitive deionization (CDI) to meet the technical requirements of various applicable areas, with an emphasis on hybrid systems.

TL;DR: In this article, a review on the characteristics and management of wastewaters originating for oil and gas extraction is presented, including the quantity and chemical composition of the produced water (FPW).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compared the energy efficiency of CDI and reverse osmosis (RO) for brackish and seawater desalination, and showed that RO is significantly more energy efficient than CDI, particularly for higher salinity feed streams and higher salt rejection values.

TL;DR: In this article, a positive charged nanofiltration membrane with abundant -NH3+ and -NH2+ was designed and fabricated via interfacial polymerization between polyethyleneimine (PEI) and trimesoyl chloride (TMC) on the polyethersulfone ultrafiltration membrane.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a general overview of membrane fouling by minerals usually found in sea and inland water resources and discuss some important aspects of the phenomena itself: different mechanisms; concentration polarization; the major types of mineral scales including their prevalence and characteristics; and consequences of fouling on membrane performance.

TL;DR: In this article, the nitrogen-doped graphene oxide quantum dots (N-GOQD) and thin film nanocomposite (TFN) were used to increase the water permeability of polyamide membrane in reverse osmosis (RO) desalination.

TL;DR: In this paper, the structure and morphology of rGO and rGO/Co3O4-B composites have been analyzed using XRD, FT-IR, TGA and SEM.

TL;DR: A critical review of conventional and membrane-based pretreatment technologies by presenting water quality issues impacting their performances, critical design characteristics and their impacts on pretreatment selection, non-water quality based selection criteria, and a conceptual decision matrix for selection of pretreatment technology for site specific conditions is presented in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide a chronological description of major developments in the field of Capacitive Deionization (CDI) with intercalation electrodes and provide an outlook of future developments in IC materials for CDI.

TL;DR: In this paper, the status of forward osmosis (FO) technology implementation and prospective commercial exploitation through examination of its energy consumption and other key process attributes compared with classical desalination technologies.

TL;DR: In this article, a review of recent research and technologies on recovering resources from desalination brine is presented, including thermal and membrane technologies for recovering water, minerals and energy.

TL;DR: In this paper, a thin film nanocomposite (TFN) membranes embedded with sulfonated graphene oxide (SGO) were fabricated to improve the hydrophilicity, salt rejection and antifouling of nanofiltration (NF) membrane.

TL;DR: A comprehensive review of functional materials used in desalination can be found in this paper, which provides current and future researchers an insight on the importance and significance of utilizing functional materials in various Desalination technologies.

TL;DR: In this paper, a negatively charged layered graphene analogue, molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), was synthesized through liquid exfoliation, and a novel thin film nanocomposite (TFN) reverse osmosis (RO) membrane was successfully fabricated with prepared laminar MoS2 as fillers in the organic phase through interfacial polymerization of m-phenylenediamine and trimesoyl chloride monomers.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors developed low-cost and washable photothermal fabrics by dyeing traditional cotton fabrics with carbon nanotube (CNT)-based ink, which exhibited strong optical absorption in 250-2500nm with a total solar absorption efficiency of 95.7%.

TL;DR: In this article, three polyvinylidene difluoride (PVDF) membranes with different surface characteristics were used for direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD) using a supersaturated CaSO4 feed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed how RO membrane element performance affects the cost of RO processes, especially the specific energy consumption, and proposed closed-circuit RO and batch RO processes.

TL;DR: In this paper, a thin-film composite (TFC) membrane with a polysulfone (PSf) support layer comprising an ultrathin polydopamine/graphene oxide (PDA/GO) interlayer was fabricated by phase inversion, self-polymerization, and interfacial polymerization to improve water permeability of the TFC membrane for forward osmosis (FO) application.

TL;DR: In this paper, thermal collective effects activated by the excitation of plasmonic modes in UV-irradiated Mixed Matrix Membranes composed of silver nanoparticles (Ag NPs) incorporated in polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) microporous films were investigated.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented an extremely low cost candle soot coated cotton as an ideal floating absorber to generate highly efficient steam using the concept of interfacial solar heating.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed the various aspects of nuclear desalination, the different nuclear reactors that have been coupled with desaline processes, and the hybrid desalinization systems coupled with nuclear reactors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report a more simple and cost-saving approach to improve the desalination performance of membrane-free HCDI cell by using nickel hexacyanoferrate/reduced graphene oxide (NiHCF/rGO) cathode which possesses high theoretic capacity and low Na+ intercalation/extraction potential at a low voltage operation (0.6

TL;DR: It was concluded that the use of AI tools will undoubtedly pave the way in the water sector towards better operation, process automation, and water resources management in an increasingly volatile environment.

TL;DR: A comprehensive review on the recent progress in bioelectrochemical systems integrated with membrane-based technologies is presented in this article, where the authors discuss advantages and limitations, and present outlooks toward further development of these technologies.

TL;DR: In this paper, the synthesis of carbon@Na4Ti9O20 (C@NTO) core-shell nanotube as novel electrodes for hybrid capacitive deionization (HCDI) with enhanced performance to overcome the several key issues of desalination.

TL;DR: In this paper, a mathematical model of a novel ZLDD system that consists of freeze desalination (FD) and membrane distillation-crystallization (MD-C) has been developed based on the theories of heat and mass transfer as well as experimental results.

TL;DR: In this paper, a novel class of thin film composite (TFC) membranes for forward osmosis (FO) desalination was reported, which were fabricated via interfacial polymerization (IP) of aqueous mixture of polyethyleneimine (PEI) and graphene quantum dots (GQDs) with organic solution of trimesoyl chloride (TMC) on modified polyacrylonitrile (PAN) ultrafiltration substrates.