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Emerging desalination technologies for water treatment: a critical review.
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Among the thermal-based technologies, membrane distillation and adsorption desalination show the most promise for enhanced performance with the availability of a waste heat source, along with a comparison of performance, water quality and energy consumption.About:
This article is published in Water Research.The article was published on 2015-05-15. It has received 670 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Desalination & Geothermal 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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Review on the criteria anticipated for the fabrication of highly efficient ZnO-based visible-light-driven photocatalysts
TL;DR: In this article, the main advancements in overcoming the barriers accompanied by pure ZnO and the criteria for fabrication of effective visible-light-responsive (ZnO-based) photocatalysts are reviewed.
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The Global Rise of Zero Liquid Discharge for Wastewater Management: Drivers, Technologies, and Future Directions
Tiezheng Tong,Menachem Elimelech +1 more
TL;DR: This critical review discusses the drivers, incentives, technologies, and environmental impacts of zero liquid discharge, and highlights the evolution of ZLD from thermal- to membrane-based processes, and analyzes the advantages and limitations of existing and emerging ZLD technologies.
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A review on polyamide thin film nanocomposite (TFN) membranes: History, applications, challenges and approaches
Woei Jye Lau,Stephen Gray,Takeshi Matsuura,Daryoush Emadzadeh,J. Paul Chen,Ahmad Fauzi Ismail +5 more
TL;DR: This review attempts to give the readers insights into the difficulties of incorporating inorganic nanomaterials into the organic PA layer whose thickness usually falls in a range of several-hundred nanometers and shows new possible approaches to overcome these challenges in TFN membrane fabrication.
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A review of reverse osmosis membrane fouling and control strategies
TL;DR: This paper reviews membrane fouling types and fouling control strategies, with a focus on the latest developments, including biofouling, organic fouling, inorganic scaling and colloidal fouling.
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