This paper offers a comprehensive overview of advanced water desalination systems
powered by renewable energy sources, specifically focusing on developments in the past …

In the past few years, osmotic membrane systems, such as forward osmosis (FO), have
gained popularity as “soft” concentration processes. FO has unique properties by combining …

Forward osmosis (FO) has attracted wide research attention owing to its potential application
in seawater desalination. In the past decade, the research advancements in FO …

The forward osmosis (FO) process has recently gained significant attention due to low
energy consumption. The concentration polarizations of external concentration polarization …

Salinity gradient power has been identified as a promising new renewable energy
technology, but previous attempts to commercialize the technology have failed due to low …

Large-scale CFD studies are currently lacking in membrane distillation due to high
computational overhead. This study utilizes a validated CFD model for vacuum membrane …

In the recent decade, various printing technologies have been under development for
producing spacers in reverse osmosis (RO) and nanofiltration (NF) modules. One …

This paper presents an overview to the state-of-the-art area of mathematical modeling for
reverse osmosis (RO) process. As a liquid-solid process, RO constitutes a valuable and vital …

Do really reverse osmosis (RO) membranes need modification to cover their disadvantages
or enhance their efficiency? Are there any defects in RO membranes manufacturing that …

We present well-resolved computational fluid dynamics simulations of a large-scale reverse
osmosis membrane-spacer configuration (∼ 1 m). Our computational model solves the flow …