Sustainable seawater desalination: Current status, environmental implications and future expectations

M Ayaz, MA Namazi, MA ud Din, MIM Ershath… - Desalination, 2022 - Elsevier
Desalination is the process of making the saltwater of the Earth's oceans drinkable and
could be a solution to droughts, especially in warmer and drier regions. However, the …

[HTML][HTML] Unconventional water resources: Global opportunities and challenges

Z Karimidastenaei, T Avellán, M Sadegh… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Water is of central importance for reaching the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of
the United Nations. With predictions of dire global water scarcity, attention is turning to …

Towards sustainable saline agriculture: Interfacial solar evaporation for simultaneous seawater desalination and saline soil remediation

P Wu, X Wu, Y Wang, H Xu, G Owens - Water Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Interfacial solar steam generation is an efficient way to produce freshwater from saline water.
This technology was further harnessed here for simultaneous saline soil remediation and …

[HTML][HTML] The impact of renewable energy and sector coupling on the pathway towards a sustainable energy system in Chile

JC Osorio-Aravena, A Aghahosseini… - … and Sustainable Energy …, 2021 - Elsevier
The aim of this research is to analyse the impact of renewable energy (RE) technologies and
sector coupling via analysing the transition pathways towards a sustainable energy system …

Photothermal Janus PPy-SiO2@ PAN/F-SiO2@ PVDF-HFP membrane for high-efficient, low energy and stable desalination through solar membrane distillation

Z Chen, J Li, J Zhou, X Chen - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2023 - Elsevier
Currently, membrane distillation driven by solar energy (solar membrane distillation, SMD) is
an effective method to address the high cost and high energy consumption problem of …

Afforesting arid land with renewable electricity and desalination to mitigate climate change

U Caldera, C Breyer - Nature Sustainability, 2023 - nature.com
Afforestation is one of the most practised carbon dioxide removal methods but is constrained
by the availability of suitable land and sufficient water resources. In this research, existing …

Optimization of wind/solar energy microgrid by division algorithm considering human health and environmental impacts for power-water cogeneration

M Kiehbadroudinezhad, A Merabet… - Energy Conversion and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Although freshwater is necessary for the well-being of humankind, increasing population
growth and limited resources lead to a serious crisis to supply freshwater. Since the Earth is …

[HTML][HTML] Feasibility of re-processing mine tailings to obtain critical raw materials using real options analysis

N Araya, Y Ramírez, A Kraslawski… - Journal of Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
The re-processing of mine tailings to obtain critical raw materials (CRMs) could reduce the
mining of new deposits as well as ensure the profitable use of the waste materials. Though …

Recent progress in green thin film membrane based materials for desalination: Design, properties and applications

S Raza, A Hayat, T Bashir, E Ghasali, AAA Hafez… - Desalination, 2024 - Elsevier
The urgent need for sustainable solutions to address freshwater scarcity has encouraged
significant research interest in green thin film membrane-based materials (GTFM) for …

[HTML][HTML] The sustainability of desalination as a remedy to the water crisis in the agriculture sector: An analysis from the climate-water-energy-food nexus perspective

B Zolghadr-Asli, N McIntyre, S Djordjevic… - Agricultural Water …, 2023 - Elsevier
Over the years, desalination has become integral to water resources management, primarily
in coastal semi-arid to arid regions. While desalinated seawater has mainly been supplied to …