Drivers, challenges, and emerging technologies for desalination of high-salinity brines: A critical review

KM Shah, IH Billinge, X Chen, H Fan, Y Huang… - Desalination, 2022 - Elsevier
Hypersaline brines are of growing environmental concern. While high-salinity desalination
and zero liquid discharge (ZLD) are increasingly attractive treatment options, the high salt …

Solvent-driven aqueous separations for hypersaline brine concentration and resource recovery

ZH Foo, C Stetson, E Dach, A Deshmukh, H Lee… - Trends in Chemistry, 2022 - cell.com
Solvent-driven separation processes can extract water and high-value minerals from high
salinity or contaminated brines, simultaneously reducing the environmental impact of brine …

Solar–thermal water evaporation: a review

Y Pang, J Zhang, R Ma, Z Qu, E Lee, T Luo - ACS Energy Letters, 2020 - ACS Publications
Solar–thermal water evaporation (SWE) has received much interest in recent years due to a
few seminal works on materials innovation and thermal management. With many studies …

Ionic liquid enables highly efficient low temperature desalination by directional solvent extraction

J Guo, ZD Tucker, Y Wang, BL Ashfeld, T Luo - Nature Communications, 2021 - nature.com
Seawater desalination plays a critical role in addressing the global water shortage
challenge. Directional Solvent Extraction (DSE) is an emerging non-membrane desalination …

Thermodynamics of solvent-driven water extraction from hypersaline brines using dimethyl ether

A Deshmukh, ZH Foo, C Stetson, H Lee… - Chemical Engineering …, 2022 - Elsevier
Solvent-driven water extraction (SDWE) has promising applications in hypersaline brine
desalination, including zero-liquid discharge processing for industrial wastewaters, and …

Molecular simulations of understanding separation of cadmium and lead ions from aqueous waste water using directional solvent extraction

P Sappidi, RP Rai - Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, 2023 - ACS Publications
In this paper, we present an all-atomistic molecular dynamics simulation study to understand
the separation of cadmium (Cd2+) and lead (Pb2+) from the aqueous waste using …

Solute displacement in the aqueous phase of water–NaCl–organic ternary mixtures relevant to solvent-driven water treatment

JS McNally, ZH Foo, A Deshmukh, CJ Orme… - RSC …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Twelve water miscible organic solvents (MOS): acetone, tetrahydrofuran, isopropanol,
acetonitrile, dimethyl sulfoxide, 1, 4-dioxane, dimethylacetamide, N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone …

Seawater desalination by forward-osmosis-assisted temperature swing solvent extraction

J Frauholz, H Roth, M Wessling - Desalination, 2023 - Elsevier
This study investigates seawater desalination by a combined process consisting of forward
osmosis and temperature swing solvent extraction (TSSE). While direct desalination by …

Non-membrane solvent extraction desalination (SED) technology using solubility-switchable amine

OK Choi, JH Seo, GS Kim, Z Hendren, GD Kim… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2021 - Elsevier
Solvent extraction desalination (SED) is one of the liquid–liquid separation techniques that
selectively uptake freshwater from high saline water, and then separate the absorbed …

Electronic structure calculations of the fundamental interactions in solvent extraction desalination

X Liu, C Turner - Journal of Molecular Liquids, 2022 - Elsevier
Solvent extraction desalination (SED) is a promising membrane-free desalination
technology, but new solvents are still needed that can improve the molecular-level water …