A review of advances in freeze desalination and future prospects

A Najim - Npj clean water, 2022 - nature.com
Freeze desalination (FD) has several benefits compared to vaporization-based and
membrane-based desalination methods. The FD process needs approximately 1/7th of the …

Development of progressive freeze concentration and its application: A review

O Miyawaki, T Inakuma - Food and Bioprocess Technology, 2021 - Springer
Progressive freeze concentration (PFC) forms a single ice crystal in the system; therefore,
the system is much simpler as compared with the conventional method of equilibrium …

Concentration of apple juice with an intelligent freeze concentrator

Z Ding, FGF Qin, J Yuan, S Huang, R Jiang… - Journal of Food …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract A 2.5-L multi-pass intelligent freeze concentration (FC) prototypical instrument with
liquid food freezing point depression (FPD) data built into its controller was tested in this …

Experimental and theoretical investigation of a novel system for progressive freeze-concentration based desalination process

A Najim, S Krishnan - Chemical Engineering and Processing-Process …, 2022 - Elsevier
This paper develops a novel vertical freezing system for an energy-efficient progressive
freeze-concentration (PFC) based desalination process. Unlike the stirrer-based PFC …

Experimental and theoretical study of a novel freeze desalination system with an intermediate cooling liquid

R Kaviani, H Shabgard, A Elhefny, J Cai… - Desalination, 2024 - Elsevier
Freeze desalination (FD) is a potentially suitable method for treatment of high salinity brines.
In this study, a novel FD system utilizing an intermediate cooling liquid (ICL) is fabricated …

Treatment of an industrial wastewater for phosphorus and fluoride recovery by a process coupling block freeze concentration and precipitation

M Guessous, A Rich, S Mountadar, M Siniti… - Journal of Crystal …, 2023 - Elsevier
The work aims at developing a process for treating industrial wastewater from phosphoric
acid and fertilizer production units by a coupled block freeze concentration-precipitation …

Optimization of progressive freezing for residual oil recovery from a palm oil–water mixture (POME model)

MAM Anuar, NA Amran, MSH Ruslan - ACS omega, 2021 - ACS Publications
Oil and grease remain the dominant contaminants in the palm oil mill effluent (POME)
despite the conventional treatment of POME. The removal of residual oil from palm oil–water …

Antioxidant recovery from pomegranate peel waste by integrating maceration and freeze concentration technology

S Samsuri, TH Li, MSH Ruslan… - International Journal of …, 2020 - degruyter.com
Pomegranate peel, a by-product of pomegranate fruit is rich in antioxidants. It is being used
as an animal feed or discarded to the environment, which could cause an environmental …

An approach to the optimization of the progressive freeze concentration of sucrose solutions in an agitated vessel

C Moussaoui, M Blanco, IB Muñoz… - Separation Science …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The freeze concentration of liquid foods is a technique that consists of separating the water
from the liquid fluid food through freezing. It is an emerging technology that uses low …

Experimental study on progressive freeze-concentration based desalination employing a rectangular channel crystallizer

A Najim, S Krishnan - Environmental Science: Water Research & …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
This paper reports an experimental study on progressive freeze-concentration based
desalination of saltwater to produce drinking water, irrigation water, and concentration …