Drivers, challenges, and emerging technologies for desalination of high-salinity brines: A critical review

KM Shah, IH Billinge, X Chen, H Fan, Y Huang… - Desalination, 2022 - Elsevier
Hypersaline brines are of growing environmental concern. While high-salinity desalination
and zero liquid discharge (ZLD) are increasingly attractive treatment options, the high salt …

Going beyond efficiency for solar evaporation

N Xu, J Li, C Finnerty, Y Song, L Zhou, B Zhu, P Wang… - Nature Water, 2023 - nature.com
Interfacial solar evaporation, which captures solar energy and localizes the generated heat
for evaporating water molecules, is regarded as an important emerging strategy for solar …

Bioinspired Aerogel with Vertically Ordered Channels and Low Water Evaporation Enthalpy for High‐Efficiency Salt‐Rejecting Solar Seawater Desalination and …

ZY Wang, YJ Zhu, YQ Chen, HP Yu, ZC Xiong - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Solar energy‐driven water evaporation is a promising sustainable strategy to purify
seawater and contaminated water. However, developing solar evaporators with high water …

[HTML][HTML] Fibrous aerogels with tunable superwettability for high-performance solar-driven interfacial evaporation

C Xu, M Gao, X Yu, J Zhang, Y Cheng, M Zhu - Nano-Micro Letters, 2023 - Springer
Solar-driven interfacial evaporation is an emerging technology for water desalination.
Generally, double-layered structure with separate surface wettability properties is usually …

Salt isolation from waste brine enabled by interfacial solar evaporation with zero liquid discharge

Y Wang, X Wu, P Wu, H Yu, J Zhao, X Yang… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The discharge of high volumes of waste brine from desalination plants is a serious
environmental challenge. While emerging zero liquid discharge (ZLD) technologies hold …

Interfacial-heating solar desalination of high-salinity brine: Recent progress on salt management and water production

F He, H You, X Liu, X Shen, J Zhang, Z Wang - Chemical Engineering …, 2023 - Elsevier
Interfacial-heating solar desalination (IHSD), a sustainable and efficient method of
harnessing solar energy to generate clean water, will contribute a meaningful technology to …

Interfacial solar evaporation by a 3D graphene oxide stalk for highly concentrated brine treatment

CTK Finnerty, AK Menon, KM Conway… - … science & technology, 2021 - ACS Publications
In this work, we demonstrate a 3-dimensional graphene oxide (3D GO) stalk that operates
near the capillary wicking limit to achieve an evaporation flux of 34.7 kg m–2 h–1 under 1 …

Solar-driven interfacial evaporation toward clean water production: burgeoning materials, concepts and technologies

F He, X Wu, J Gao, Z Wang - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Solar-driven interfacial evaporation, as a rising star for eco-friendly and cost-effective
freshwater production with a minimized carbon footprint, has been widely studied and …

[HTML][HTML] Pathways to a net-zero-carbon water sector through energy-extracting wastewater technologies

A Rani, SW Snyder, H Kim, Z Lei, SY Pan - NPJ Clean Water, 2022 - nature.com
The energy-consuming and carbon-intensive wastewater treatment plants could become
significant energy producers and recycled organic and metallic material generators, thereby …

Recent advances in structural regulation and optimization of high-performance solar-driven interfacial evaporation systems

X Han, S Ding, H Hu, S Wang - Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Solar-driven interfacial evaporation (SIE) is a sustainable and efficient technology for
producing clean water, which has promising applications in seawater desalination and …