Membrane distillation (MD) is an emerging thermally-driven technology that poses a lot of
promise in desalination, and water and wastewater treatment. Developments in membrane …

Reverse osmosis is becoming popular for the purification of water resources eg sea and
brackish water. However, one of the major limitations in efficient operation are the fouling of …

Mineral scaling is one of the primary factors that constrain the performance of membrane
desalination. However, compared to numerous studies on organic and biological fouling …

Reverse osmosis (RO) plays an important role in freshwater production. Mineral scaling is
an inevitable problem in the RO desalination process. Various methods, including the …

With decades of developments, RO desalination has evolved into a mature technology with
excellent performance to meet emergent global freshwater needs. Nevertheless, the …

One of the main reasons that have limited industrialization of membrane distillation (MD) for
water desalination application is the lack of a proper membrane that could exhibit long-term …

Over the past few years, nanomaterials have been gradually developed as scale inhibitors.
In this work, an environmentally friendly and antibacterial sulfur quantum dot scale inhibitor …

Membrane fouling is the bottleneck of stable operations for reverse osmosis (RO), which is
the key technology for reclaimed water reuse in thermal power plants. The foulant …

The formation of scale poses several serious menaces in oil and gas exploitations. The
scaling phenomenon may cause technical problems such as obstruction of equipment and …

Scale deposition occurs when dissolved salts precipitate from aqueous solution. Scale
formation is reported to occur by two pathways, surface crystallization & bulk crystallization …