Mineral scaling induced membrane wetting in membrane distillation for water treatment: Fundamental mechanism and mitigation strategies

H Chang, Y Zhu, L Huang, Z Yan, F Qu, H Liang - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
The scaling-induced wetting phenomenon seriously affects the application of membrane
distillation (MD) technology in hypersaline wastewater treatment. Unlike the large amount of …

Lithium extraction from spodumene by the traditional sulfuric acid process: A review

J Rioyo, S Tuset, R Grau - Mineral Processing and Extractive …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The sulfuric acid process is the dominant technology for lithium extraction from spodumene.
However, this process generates huge quantities of waste residue and needs high …

Renewable energy-driven membrane distillation in the context of life cycle assessment

M Kaczmarczyk, M Mukti, N Ghaffour, S Soukane… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2024 - Elsevier
Desalination and water treatment processes have seen a worldwide increase due to
increasingly limited access to drinking water sources. In this context, the article focuses on …

Water quality of shale gas produced water greatly influences the performance of membrane distillation

M Lu, H Chang, Z Yan, F Qu, Z Zhou, Y Liang… - Separation and …, 2024 - Elsevier
Shale gas is abundant worldwide and has a smaller carbon footprint than conventional coal.
However, exploitation of shale gas produces a large amount of hydraulic fracturing …

Integration of membrane distillation as volume reduction technology for in-land desalination brines management: Pre-treatments and scaling limitations

G Viader, O Casal, B Lefèvre… - Journal of environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
Management of in-land reverse osmosis (RO) desalination brines generated from surface
brackish waters is a current challenge. Among the different near-Zero and Zero Liquid …

Thermodynamic and kinetic analyses of Janus membrane scaling in membrane distillation for zero liquid discharge engineering

A Wang, H Xu, J Ma, J Fu, T Lin, M Ding - Desalination, 2023 - Elsevier
Scaling phenomena are the principal obstacle to the factual application of membrane
distillation (MD). In this study, we fabricated a Janus membrane composed of a commercial …

Na+/Mg2+ interactions on membrane distillation permeation flux and crystallization performance during high saline solution treatment

P Li, G Li, W Xiao, X Ruan, X Yan, G He… - Separation and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Membrane distillation crystallization (MDC) was an effective method for saline solution
treatment to simultaneously recovery pure water and salt products. In MDC process, an …

Pilot-scale field demonstration of environmental nanotechnology for groundwater defluoridation

Z Deng, S Cheng, N Xu, X Zhang, B Pan - ACS ES&T Engineering, 2022 - ACS Publications
Fluoride contamination in groundwater is a global issue. Nanoscale oxides of Zr (IV), Al (III),
and Ti (IV) can form the inner-sphere complex with fluoride through ligand exchange …

Brine minimization in desalination of the geothermal reinjection fluid by pressure-driven membrane separation processes

YA Jarma, A Karaoğlu, IRA Senan, A Baba, N Kabay - Desalination, 2022 - Elsevier
Brine obtained during water treatment by pressure driven membrane processes remains the
major drawback. Therefore, it is of paramount important to find a lasting solution in order to …

Forward osmosis coupled with lime-soda ash softening for volume minimization of reverse osmosis concentrate and CaCO3 recovery: A case study on the coal …

J Lu, S You, X Wang - Frontiers of Environmental Science & Engineering, 2021 - Springer
Reverse osmosis (RO) is frequently used forwaterreclamation fromtreated
wastewaterordesalination plants. The RO concentrate (ROC) produced from the coal …