Salinity gradients for sustainable energy: primer, progress, and prospects

NY Yip, D Brogioli, HVM Hamelers… - … science & technology, 2016 - ACS Publications
Combining two solutions of different composition releases the Gibbs free energy of mixing.
By using engineered processes to control the mixing, chemical energy stored in salinity …

Salinity gradient energy generation by pressure retarded osmosis: A review

RR Gonzales, A Abdel-Wahab, S Adham, DS Han… - Desalination, 2021 - Elsevier
Pressure retarded osmosis (PRO) has gained attention due to its use as a salinity gradient
energy-generating membrane process. This process can convert difference in salinity …

Ultra-strong polymeric hollow fiber membranes for saline dewatering and desalination

CZ Liang, M Askari, LT Choong, TS Chung - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Osmotically assisted reverse osmosis (OARO) has become an emerging membrane
technology to tackle the limitations of a reverse osmosis (RO) process for water desalination …

Development of microporous substrates of polyamide thin film composite membranes for pressure-driven and osmotically-driven membrane processes: A review

WJ Lau, GS Lai, J Li, S Gray, Y Hu, N Misdan… - Journal of Industrial and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Polyamide thin film composite (TFC) membranes are state-of-the-art membranes with
superior permeability and selectivity, and are widely used in various membrane-based …

Thin film nanocomposite hollow fiber membranes comprising Na+-functionalized carbon quantum dots for brackish water desalination

W Gai, DL Zhao, TS Chung - Water research, 2019 - Elsevier
We have incorporated Na+-functionalized carbon quantum dots (Na-CQDs) into the
polyamide layer via interfacial polymerization reaction and developed novel thin film …

Melamine-based covalent organic framework-incorporated thin film nanocomposite membrane for enhanced osmotic power generation

RR Gonzales, MJ Park, TH Bae, Y Yang… - Desalination, 2019 - Elsevier
A melamine-based covalent organic framework (COF) nanomaterial, Schiff base network-1
(SNW-1), was incorporated into the polyamide layer of a novel thin film nanocomposite …

Thin-film composite hollow fiber membrane with inorganic salt additives for high mechanical strength and high power density for pressure-retarded osmosis

CF Wan, T Yang, W Gai, Y De Lee, TS Chung - Journal of membrane …, 2018 - Elsevier
Using high salinity draw solutions in pressure retarded osmosis (PRO) demands novel
membranes with a higher withstanding pressure and a higher power density to take full …

Optimization of TFC-PES hollow fiber membranes for reverse osmosis (RO) and osmotically assisted reverse osmosis (OARO) applications

M Askari, CZ Liang, LTS Choong, TS Chung - Journal of Membrane …, 2021 - Elsevier
The osmotically assisted reverse osmosis (OARO) has been recently proposed to increase
the water recovery of the reverse osmosis (RO) process, in which RO has reached its …

Inner-selective polyethersulfone-polydimethylsiloxane (PES-PDMS) thin film composite hollow fiber membrane for CO2/N2 separation at high pressures

B Zhao, JW Wong, CZ Liang, J Wu, TS Chung… - Separation and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Carbon dioxide (CO 2) is the dominant greenhouse gas (GHG) and thus CO 2 capture from
flue gas of power plants, the main anthropogenic source of emission, is a key approach to …

Highly permeable thin film composite hollow fiber membranes for brackish water desalination by incorporating amino functionalized carbon quantum dots and …

W Gai, Y Zhang, Q Zhao, TS Chung - Journal of Membrane Science, 2021 - Elsevier
A novel strategy has been demonstrated to synergistically improve the separation
performance of thin film composite (TFC) hollow fiber membranes for brackish water reverse …