Membrane-based technologies for lithium recovery from water lithium resources: A review

X Li, Y Mo, W Qing, S Shao, CY Tang, J Li - Journal of Membrane Science, 2019 - Elsevier
Lithium production has become increasingly critical for sustainable development. The
extraction of lithium from aqueous sources, particularly salt-lake brine, has become a trend …

Potential and implemented membrane-based technologies for the treatment and reuse of flowback and produced water from shale gas and oil plays: A review

H Chang, T Li, B Liu, RD Vidic, M Elimelech… - Desalination, 2019 - Elsevier
Recovery of natural gas and oil from unconventional (shale) reservoirs relies on horizontal
drilling and hydraulic fracturing to make it economical. Hydraulic fracturing generates vast …

Wetting, scaling, and fouling in membrane distillation: state-of-the-art insights on fundamental mechanisms and mitigation strategies

T Horseman, Y Yin, KSS Christie, Z Wang… - ACS ES&T …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Membrane distillation (MD) has been garnering increasing attention in research and
development, since it has been proposed as a promising technology for desalinating …

Salt-rejecting solar interfacial evaporation

G Liu, T Chen, J Xu, G Yao, J Xie, Y Cheng… - Cell Reports Physical …, 2021 - cell.com
Solar evaporation offers a promising approach to drive the distillation process, and
nanotechnology may help overcome operational issues such as salt fouling. Here, we …

Brine management in desalination industry: From waste to resources generation

MO Mavukkandy, CM Chabib, I Mustafa, A Al Ghaferi… - Desalination, 2019 - Elsevier
Desalination brine has high salinity and contains various chemical contaminants and its
disposal causes a major concern for desalination around the world. Environmentally friendly …

Integrated membrane electrochemical reactor-membrane distillation process for enhanced landfill leachate treatment

Z Yan, Z Zhu, H Chang, G Fan, Q Wang, X Fu, F Qu… - Water Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Treatment of recalcitrant landfill leachate (LFL) induces huge energy consumption
and carbon emissions due to its complex composition. Although membrane distillation (MD) …

Towards a low-energy seawater reverse osmosis desalination plant: A review and theoretical analysis for future directions

K Park, J Kim, DR Yang, S Hong - Journal of Membrane Science, 2020 - Elsevier
Seawater is receiving consideration as an infinite water source in the current era of water
shortage. The application of seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO) to prepare seawater for …

Membrane distillation crystallization technology for zero liquid discharge and resource recovery: Opportunities, challenges and futuristic perspectives

A Yadav, PK Labhasetwar, VK Shahi - Science of The Total Environment, 2022 - Elsevier
Water resources are getting limited, which emphasises the need for the reuse of wastewater.
The conventional waste (water) treatment methods such as reverse osmosis (RO) and multi …

An overview on the progress in produced water desalination by membrane-based technology

NM Abounahia, AMA El-Sayed, H Saleem… - Journal of Water Process …, 2023 - Elsevier
The scarcity of clean water sources has become a global concern in the present-day society.
This has driven to the extraction of fresh water from produced water (PW), from the oil and …

Janus membranes for membrane distillation: Recent advances and challenges

M Afsari, HK Shon, LD Tijing - Advances in Colloid and Interface Science, 2021 - Elsevier
Membrane distillation (MD) is a promising hybrid thermal-membrane separation technology
that can efficiently produce freshwater from seawater or contaminated wastewater. However …