Salinity gradients for sustainable energy: primer, progress, and prospects

NY Yip, D Brogioli, HVM Hamelers… - … science & technology, 2016 - ACS Publications
Combining two solutions of different composition releases the Gibbs free energy of mixing.
By using engineered processes to control the mixing, chemical energy stored in salinity …

Towards sustainability in water-energy nexus: Ocean energy for seawater desalination

Z Li, A Siddiqi, LD Anadon, V Narayanamurti - Renewable and Sustainable …, 2018 - Elsevier
Seawater desalination is an important option for addressing the world's water supply
challenges. Current desalination plants use enormous quantities of energy and cause a …

Osmotically assisted reverse osmosis for high salinity brine treatment

TV Bartholomew, L Mey, JT Arena, NS Siefert… - Desalination, 2017 - Elsevier
This work evaluates a novel osmotically assisted reverse osmosis (OARO) process for
dewatering high salinity brines using readily available membranes and equipment. While …

Sustainable brine management from the perspectives of water, energy and mineral recovery: A comprehensive review

O Ogunbiyi, J Saththasivam, D Al-Masri, Y Manawi… - Desalination, 2021 - Elsevier
Desalination activities around the world are increasing as a result of water scarcity. The
discharge of brine from desalination processes poses a significant threat to the environment …

Emerging electrochemical and membrane-based systems to convert low-grade heat to electricity

M Rahimi, AP Straub, F Zhang, X Zhu… - Energy & …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Low-grade heat from geothermal sources and industrial plants is a significant source of
sustainable power that has great potential to be converted to electricity. The two main …

Waste heat recovery using thermally responsive ionic liquids through TiO 2 nanopore and macroscopic membranes

M Pascual, N Chapuis, S Abdelghani-Idrissi… - Energy & …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Waste heat is the untapped heat produced by a thermodynamic process. It is usually
released into the surrounding environment without any valorization. But recently, industrial …

Membrane-based indirect power generation technologies for harvesting salinity gradient energy-A review

Y Jiao, L Song, C Zhao, Y An, W Lu, B He, C Yang - Desalination, 2022 - Elsevier
The giant and sustainable salinity gradient energy broadly occurs when mixing solution
sources with different concentrations can be potentially harvested through the intensively …

Innovative technologies for energy production from low temperature heat sources: critical literature review and thermodynamic analysis

D Brogioli, F La Mantia - Energy & Environmental Science, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
The scientific community has taken on the challenge to develop innovative methods to
exploit low-temperature (< 100° C) heat sources, having large potential to decrease the …

Forward osmosis membrane process: A review of temperature effects on system performance and membrane parameters from experimental studies

N Anh-Vu, Y Nomura, T Hidaka, T Fujiwara - Journal of Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
Forward osmosis (FO) offers a promising solution for concentration and material recovery,
characterized by its low energy consumption and high separation efficiency. Temperature …

Investigation of the reduced specific energy consumption of the RO-PRO hybrid system based on temperature-enhanced pressure retarded osmosis

Q Wang, Z Zhou, J Li, Q Tang, Y Hu - Journal of Membrane Science, 2019 - Elsevier
Reverse osmosis (RO) has been widely used as a dominant desalination technology to
produce fresh water from seawater (SW), but still consumes huge energy. To reduce the …