Drivers, challenges, and emerging technologies for desalination of high-salinity brines: A critical review

KM Shah, IH Billinge, X Chen, H Fan, Y Huang… - Desalination, 2022 - Elsevier
Hypersaline brines are of growing environmental concern. While high-salinity desalination
and zero liquid discharge (ZLD) are increasingly attractive treatment options, the high salt …

Reverse osmosis desalination systems powered by solar energy: Preheating techniques and brine disposal challenges–A detailed review

SM Shalaby, SW Sharshir, AE Kabeel… - Energy Conversion and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Globally, reverse osmosis desalination systems are widely utilized as they have the
cheapest freshwater production cost. On the contrary, reverse osmosis systems have high …

Designing a next generation solar crystallizer for real seawater brine treatment with zero liquid discharge

C Zhang, Y Shi, L Shi, H Li, R Li, S Hong… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Proper disposal of industrial brine has been a critical environmental challenge. Zero liquid
discharge (ZLD) brine treatment holds great promise to the brine disposal, but its application …

Salt isolation from waste brine enabled by interfacial solar evaporation with zero liquid discharge

Y Wang, X Wu, P Wu, H Yu, J Zhao, X Yang… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The discharge of high volumes of waste brine from desalination plants is a serious
environmental challenge. While emerging zero liquid discharge (ZLD) technologies hold …

Desalination in the GCC countries-a review

B Moossa, P Trivedi, H Saleem, SJ Zaidi - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are located in one of the most arid
regions in the world with very less freshwater resources, and hence depending on …

Solar evaporator with controlled salt precipitation for zero liquid discharge desalination

Y Shi, C Zhang, R Li, S Zhuo, Y Jin, L Shi… - … science & technology, 2018 - ACS Publications
A sustainable supply of clean water is essential for the development of modern society,
which has become increasingly dependent on desalination technology since 96.5% of the …

Current advances in membrane technologies for produced water desalination

NA Ahmad, PS Goh, LT Yogarathinam, AK Zulhairun… - Desalination, 2020 - Elsevier
The limited clean water resource has urged the need to extract fresh water from non-
conventional sources. Produced water (PW) is a potential source of fresh water, particularly …

Energy consumption and environmental impact assessment of desalination plants and brine disposal strategies

MN Soliman, FZ Guen, SA Ahmed, H Saleem… - Process Safety and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Nowadays, desalination plants are considered as tools to utilize water from different natural
resources such as seawater and brackish water. Globally, the number of desalination plants …

A review of resource recovery from seawater desalination brine

X Zhang, W Zhao, Y Zhang, V Jegatheesan - Reviews in Environmental …, 2021 - Springer
In order to address freshwater scarcity, seawater desalination technologies have been
widely studied in recent years. However, the disposal of desalination brine which contains …

[HTML][HTML] Worldwide research trends on desalination

A Zapata-Sierra, M Cascajares, A Alcayde… - Desalination, 2021 - Elsevier
It is a fact that the world's population has increased twofold in the last 50 years, which has
meant that the availability of freshwater for all required activities, industrial use, agriculture …