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Brine management methods: Recent innovations and current status
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The most obvious sustainable improvements in reject brine management are based on minimization techniques or reuse that can be achieved through the recovery of valuable materials such as salts, metals, and chemicals as discussed by the authors.About:
This article is published in Desalination.The article was published on 2017-04-01. It has received 209 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Brining & Desalination.read more
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The state of desalination and brine production: A global outlook.
Edward R. Jones,Edward R. Jones,Manzoor Qadir,Michelle T. H. van Vliet,Vladimir Smakhtin,Seong Mu Kang,Seong Mu Kang +6 more
TL;DR: Improved brine management strategies are required to limit the negative environmental impacts and reduce the economic cost of disposal, thereby stimulating further developments in desalination facilities to safeguard water supplies for current and future generations.
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Progress and prospects in reverse electrodialysis for salinity gradient energy conversion and storage
Ramato Ashu Tufa,Sylwin Pawlowski,Joost Veerman,Karel Bouzek,Enrica Fontananova,Gianluca Di Profio,Svetlozar Velizarov,João G. Crespo,Kitty Nijmeijer,Efrem Curcio +9 more
TL;DR: A critical review of the most significant achievements in RED, focusing on membrane development, stack design, fluid dynamics, process optimization, fouling and potential applications, is presented in this paper, where the main hurdles to market implementation are mainly related to unavailability of high performance, stable and low-cost membrane materials.
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Environmental impact of desalination technologies: A review
Khaled Elsaid,Mohammed Kamil,Enas Taha Sayed,Mohammad Ali Abdelkareem,Mohammad Ali Abdelkareem,Mohammad Ali Abdelkareem,Tabbi Wilberforce,Abdul Ghani Olabi +7 more
TL;DR: The leading desalination technologies of RO, MSF, and MED were analyzed, along with different feedwaters, and recommendations were given to minimize the negative impacts of Desalination on both the local and global environments.
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Electrodialysis Applications in Wastewater Treatment for Environmental Protection and Resources Recovery: A Systematic Review on Progress and Perspectives
TL;DR: A comprehensive review of studies on electrodialysis applications in wastewater treatment, outlining the current status and the future prospect is presented, showing that zero or minimal liquid discharge approaches can be techno-economically affordable and competitive.
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Nitrate removal from drinking water with a focus on biological methods: a review
TL;DR: Sulfur-based and hydrogen-based denitrifications, which are the most common autotrophic processes of nitrate removal, are reviewed with the aim of presenting the salient features of hydrogenotrophic denitrification along with some drawbacks of the technology and research areas in which it could be used but currently is not.
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Sabine Lattemann,Thomas Höpner +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an overview on present seawater desalination capacities by region, a synopsis of the key environmental concerns of desalification, including ways of mitigating the impacts on the environment, and of avoiding some of the dangers of the environment to Desalination.
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TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the fundamental heat and mass transfer processes in membrane distillation, recent advances in membrane technology, module configurations, and applications and economics of membrane distilled water is presented.
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State of the art and review on the treatment technologies of water reverse osmosis concentrates.
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Techno-economic assessment and environmental impacts of desalination technologies
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