Current development and future prospect review of freeze desalination

B Kalista, H Shin, J Cho, A Jang - Desalination, 2018 - Elsevier
Freeze desalination (FD) is an emerging technology to overcome limitations of membrane-
and thermal-energy-based desalination processes. Extant studies concerning FD have …

Reverse osmosis concentrate: physicochemical characteristics, environmental impact, and technologies

H Valdés, A Saavedra, M Flores, I Vera-Puerto, H Aviña… - Membranes, 2021 - mdpi.com
This study's aim is to generate a complete profile of reverse osmosis concentrate (ROC),
including physicochemical characteristics, environmental impact, and technologies for ROC …

Technical and environmental opportunities for freeze desalination

L Macias-Bu, M Guerra-Valle, G Petzold… - Separation & …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Freeze desalination (FD) is an efficient technology to produce fresh water through formation
of ice crystals in the seawater or brackish water and subsequent separation of salt (or other …

Towards the circular economy—Sustainable fouling mitigation strategies in ultrafiltration of secondary effluent

K Czuba, K Pacyna-Iwanicka, A Bastrzyk… - Desalination, 2022 - Elsevier
Membrane separation is an emerging technology for secondary effluent (SE) recycling as an
alternative water source. However, SE contains secondary metabolites which form a film on …

Is Direct Seawater Splitting Realistic with Conventional Electrolyzer Technologies?

H Saada, B Fabre, G Loget, G Benoit - ACS Energy Letters, 2024 - ACS Publications
Dihydrogen (H2) constitutes a promising energy carrier for transporting part of the world's
energy demand and concomitantly for reducing toxic emissions. Water electrolysis powered …

Investigating reverse osmosis membrane fouling and scaling by membrane autopsy of a bench scale device

P García-Triñanes, MA Chairopoulou… - Environmental …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
In response to the escalating world water demand and aiming to promote equal
opportunities, reverse osmosis desalination has been widely implemented. Desalination is …

Increasing water recovery during reclamation of treated municipal wastewater using bipolar membrane electrodialysis and fluidized bed crystallization

M AzadiAghdam, A Achilli, SA Snyder… - Journal of Water Process …, 2020 - Elsevier
This research investigated the effectiveness of bipolar membrane electrodialysis coupled
with fluidized bed crystallization and coagulation/flocculation with FeCl 3 for removing …

Brackish water desalination: an effective pretreatment process for reverse osmosis systems

GM Ayoub, L Korban, M Al-Hindi, R Zayyat - Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 2019 - Springer
Fouling and scaling of membranes in reverse osmosis (RO) units presents a major
impediment to the effective and efficient operation of the system. Consequently, pretreatment …

Desupersaturation of RO concentrate and gypsum removal via seeded precipitation in a fluidized bed crystallizer

JY Choi, F Kaufmann, A Rahardianto, Y Cohen - Water Research, 2021 - Elsevier
The feasibility of a continuous chemically-enhanced seeded precipitation (CCESP) process
was evaluated for desupersaturation of primary reverse osmosis (PRO) concentrate …

Kinetics of CaCO3 precipitation in seeded aeration softening of brackish water desalination concentrate

I Rom, S Klas - Chemosphere, 2020 - Elsevier
Desalination of brackish water is energetically attractive, but the concentrate produced
poses a major environmental issue. Intensive research has been carried out to develop …