Salinity gradient energy generation by pressure retarded osmosis: A review

RR Gonzales, A Abdel-Wahab, S Adham, DS Han… - Desalination, 2021 - Elsevier
Pressure retarded osmosis (PRO) has gained attention due to its use as a salinity gradient
energy-generating membrane process. This process can convert difference in salinity …

Development of microporous substrates of polyamide thin film composite membranes for pressure-driven and osmotically-driven membrane processes: A review

WJ Lau, GS Lai, J Li, S Gray, Y Hu, N Misdan… - Journal of Industrial and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Polyamide thin film composite (TFC) membranes are state-of-the-art membranes with
superior permeability and selectivity, and are widely used in various membrane-based …

Ultrathin thin-film composite polyamide membranes constructed on hydrophilic poly (vinyl alcohol) decorated support toward enhanced nanofiltration performance

X Zhu, X Cheng, X Luo, Y Liu, D Xu… - … science & technology, 2020 - ACS Publications
Traditional polyamide-based interfacial polymerized nanofiltration (NF) membranes exhibit
upper bound features between water permeance and salt selectivity. Breaking the limits of …

Metal–organic framework nanosheets for thin-film composite membranes with enhanced permeability and selectivity

Y Wen, X Zhang, X Li, Z Wang… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Widespread applications of reverse osmosis (RO)-based processes call for high-
performance thin-film composite (TFC) membranes. In this study, a TFC membrane by …

Interfacial polymerization with electrosprayed microdroplets: toward controllable and ultrathin polyamide membranes

XH Ma, Z Yang, ZK Yao, H Guo, ZL Xu… - … Science & Technology …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Commercial polyamide membranes for seawater desalination and water purification have
low water permeability because of their relatively thick rejection layers. We report a novel …

Recent development of pressure retarded osmosis membranes for water and energy sustainability: A critical review

Y Shi, M Zhang, H Zhang, F Yang, CY Tang, Y Dong - Water research, 2021 - Elsevier
With the goal of zero-liquid discharge and green energy harvest, extraction of abundant
green energy from saline water via pressure retarded osmosis (PRO) technology is a …

Tuning of nanofiltration membrane by multifunctionalized nanovesicles to enable an ultrahigh dye/salt separation at high salinity

H Zhou, X Li, Y Li, R Dai, Z Wang - Journal of Membrane Science, 2022 - Elsevier
A nanofiltration (NF) membrane capable of efficiently separating dye and salt at high-salinity
is of great interest for the effective treatment of the textile wastewater. However, existing NF …

A comprehensive review of the feasibility of pressure retarded osmosis: Recent technological advances and industrial efforts towards commercialization

C Lee, SH Chae, E Yang, S Kim, JH Kim, IS Kim - Desalination, 2020 - Elsevier
Since the early 2000s, pressure retarded osmosis (PRO) has been continuously
investigated, based on its potential to harvest energy from a salinity gradient. However …

Pressure retarded osmosis: Advancement, challenges and potential

N AlZainati, H Saleem, A Altaee, SJ Zaidi… - Journal of Water …, 2021 - Elsevier
An excessive amount of renewable energy could be possibly produced when solutions of
dissimilar salinities are combined simultaneously in a semipermeable membrane. The …

Fabrication of loose inner-selective polyethersulfone (PES) hollow fibers by one-step spinning process for nanofiltration (NF) of textile dyes

J Gao, Z Thong, KY Wang, TS Chung - Journal of Membrane Science, 2017 - Elsevier
The development of a loose inner-selective polyethersulfone (PES) hollow fiber by one-step
spinning process for nanofiltration (NF) has been demonstrated in this study. It is found that …