Alleviating the burden of ion exchange brine in water treatment: From operational strategies to brine management

Z Liu, M Haddad, S Sauvé, B Barbeau - Water Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Ion exchange (IX) using synthetic resins is a cost-efficient technology to cope with a wide
range of contaminants in water treatment. However, implementing IX processes is …

Evaluation of a hybrid ion exchange-catalyst treatment technology for nitrate removal from drinking water

AM Bergquist, JK Choe, TJ Strathmann, CJ Werth - Water Research, 2016 - Elsevier
Ion exchange (IX) is the most common approach to treating nitrate-contaminated drinking
water sources, but the cost of salt to make regeneration brine, as well as the cost and …

[HTML][HTML] A pilot-plant for the selective recovery of magnesium and calcium from waste brines

F Vassallo, D La Corte, N Cancilla, A Tamburini… - Desalination, 2021 - Elsevier
The problem of brines disposal has raised great interest towards new strategies for their
valorisation through the recovery of minerals or energy. As an example, the spent brine from …

Application of electrodialysis pretreatment to enhance boron removal and reduce fouling during desalination by nanofiltration/reverse osmosis

MR Landsman, DF Lawler, LE Katz - Desalination, 2020 - Elsevier
Membranes have emerged as promising technologies for treatment of non-traditional
waters, but fouling and poor rejection of small, neutral solutes (eg, boric acid) impede their …

Combined magnetic ion exchange and cation exchange for removal of DOC and hardness

SEH Comstock, TH Boyer - Chemical Engineering Journal, 2014 - Elsevier
The overall goal of this research was to evaluate an innovative combined ion-exchange
process for multi-contaminant treatment. Magnetically enhanced anion exchange resin and …

Efficiency and life cycle environmental impacts of ion-exchange regeneration using sodium, potassium, chloride, and bicarbonate salts

GA Maul, Y Kim, A Amini, Q Zhang, TH Boyer - Chemical Engineering …, 2014 - Elsevier
The goal of this research was to investigate the efficiency and life cycle environmental
impacts of ion exchange (IX) regeneration using conventional NaCl and the alternative salts …

Combined membrane and thermal desalination processes for the treatment of ion exchange resins spent brine

M Micari, A Cipollina, A Tamburini, M Moser, V Bertsch… - Applied Energy, 2019 - Elsevier
The disposal of industrial wastewater effluents represents a critical environmental issue.
This work focuses on the treatment of the spent brine produced by the regeneration of ion …

Increasing RO efficiency by chemical-free ion-exchange and Donnan dialysis: Principles and practical implications

M Vanoppen, G Stoffels, C Demuytere, W Bleyaert… - Water research, 2015 - Elsevier
Ion-exchange (IEX) and Donnan dialysis (DD) are techniques which can selectively remove
cations, limiting scaling in reverse osmosis (RO). If the RO concentrate could be recycled for …

Development and calibration of a new mathematical model for the description of an ion-exchange process for ammonia removal in the presence of competing ions

I Lizarralde, S Guida, J Canellas, B Jefferson, P Grau… - Water Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Ammonia ion removal and recovery via an ion-exchange process using zeolites is a
promising alternative to traditional biological treatments. The analysis of its efficiency is not …

High purity recovery of magnesium and calcium hydroxides from waste brines

F Vassallo, D La Corte, A Cipollina… - Chemical Engineering …, 2021 - cetjournal.it
Direct disposal of concentrate brines, generated by many industrial sectors, causes serious
environmental concerns. An industrial sector that produces high concentrate brines is …