Harvesting blue energy based on salinity and temperature gradient: challenges, solutions, and opportunities

M Rastgar, K Moradi, C Burroughs, A Hemmati… - Chemical …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Greenhouse gas emissions associated with power generation from fossil fuel combustion
account for 25% of global emissions and, thus, contribute greatly to climate change …

Significant roles of substrate properties in forward osmosis membrane performance: A review

M Kahrizi, RR Gonzales, L Kong, H Matsuyama, P Lu… - Desalination, 2022 - Elsevier
Forward osmosis (FO) has gained considerable interest as an attractive membrane-based
desalination technology due to its reversible fouling and potentially low costs. Thin-film …

Fabrication of polymeric nanocomposite forward osmosis membranes for water desalination—A review

H Jain, MC Garg - Environmental Technology & Innovation, 2021 - Elsevier
Osmosis has started discovering technical application in the developing membrane
technologies like Forward Osmosis and Pressure-Retarded Osmosis. It is the natural motion …

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 …

Progress in membranes for pressure retarded osmosis application

SN Rahman, H Saleem, SJ Zaidi - Desalination, 2023 - Elsevier
The ever-growing global energy crisis has been pushing industries to lean towards
renewable resources as an alternative for power generation. Recent research is focusing …

Recent advances in nanomaterial-incorporated nanocomposite membranes for organic solvent nanofiltration

C Wang, MJ Park, DH Seo, E Drioli… - Separation and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Recently, there is an increasing interest on organic solvent nanofiltration (OSN) for the
separation and recovery of organic solvents due to the high energy consumption and the …

Temporally multi-staged batch counterflow reverse osmosis

A Das, AN Beni, C Bernal-Botero, DM Warsinger - Desalination, 2024 - Elsevier
Batch reverse osmosis (RO) is a desalination process that can follow the osmotic pressure of
gradually concentrating feed to achieve high energy efficiency. Its limitation of treating high …

High-flux TFN nanofiltration membranes incorporated with Camphor-Al2O3 nanoparticles for brackish water desalination

YH Kotp - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
A new approach of highly fluxes thin film nanocomposite (TFN) nanofiltration (NF)
membranes is reported. The fabricated module was made by incorporation of commercial-Al …

A comprehensive review of the feasibility of pressure retarded osmosis: Recent technological advances and industrial efforts towards commercialization

C Lee, SH Chae, E Yang, S Kim, JH Kim, IS Kim - Desalination, 2020 - Elsevier
Since the early 2000s, pressure retarded osmosis (PRO) has been continuously
investigated, based on its potential to harvest energy from a salinity gradient. However …

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 …