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Stein, Shaked, Orit Sivan, Yoseph Yechieli, and Roni Kasher. "Redox condition of saline groundwater from coastal aquifers influences reverse osmosis desalination process." Water Research 188 (January 2021): 116508. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2020.116508.
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Rosentreter, Hanna, Marc Walther, and André Lerch. "Partial Desalination of Saline Groundwater: Comparison of Nanofiltration, Reverse Osmosis and Membrane Capacitive Deionisation." Membranes 11, no. 2 (February 12, 2021): 126. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/membranes11020126.
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Saline groundwater (SGW) is an alternative water resource. However, the concentration of sodium, chloride, sulphate, and nitrate in SGW usually exceeds the recommended guideline values for drinking water and irrigation. In this study, the partial desalination performance of three different concentrated SGWs were examined by pressure-driven membrane desalination technologies: nanofiltration (NF), brackish water reverse osmosis (BWRO), and seawater reverse osmosis (SWRO); in addition to one electrochemical-driven desalination technology: membrane capacitive deionisation (MCDI). The desalination performance was evaluated using the specific energy consumption (SEC) and water recovery, determined by experiments and simulations. The experimental results of this study show that the SEC for the desalination of SGW with a total dissolved solid (TDS) concentration of 1 g/L by MCDI and NF is similar and ranges between 0.2–0.4 kWh/m3 achieving a water recovery value of 35–70%. The lowest SECs for the desalination of SGW with a TDS concentration ≥2 g/L were determined by the use of BWRO and SWRO with 0.4–2.9 kWh/m3 for a water recovery of 40–66%. Even though the MCDI technique cannot compete with pressure-driven membrane desalination technologies at higher raw water salinities, this technology shows a high selectivity for nitrate and a high potential for flexible desalination applications.
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Abdelkader, Sana, Ali Boubakri, Sven Uwe Geissen, and Latifa Bousselmi. "Direct contact membrane distillation applied to saline wastewater: parameter optimization." Water Science and Technology 77, no. 12 (June 18, 2018): 2823–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wst.2018.274.
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Abstract Freshwater availability is increasingly under pressure from growing demand, resource depletion and environmental pollution. Desalination of saline wastewater is an option for supplying households, industry and agriculture with water, but technologies such as reverse osmosis, evaporation or electrodialysis are energy intensive. By contrast, membrane distillation (MD) is a competitive technology for water desalination. In our study, response surface methodology was applied to optimize the direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD) treatment of synthetic saline wastewater. The aim was to enhance the process performance and the permeate flux Jp (L/m2·h) by optimizing the operating parameters: temperature difference ΔT, feed velocity Vf, salt concentration [NaCl], and glucose concentration [Gluc]. The results are a high permeate quality, with 99.9% electrical conductivity reduction and more than 99.9% chemical oxygen demand (COD) removal rate. The predicted optimum permeate flux Jp was 34.1 L/m2·h at ΔT = 55.2 °C and Vf = 0.086 m/s, the two most significant parameters. The model created showed a high degree of correlation between the experimental and the predicted responses, with high statistical significance.
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Wang, Jingbo, Dian Tanuwidjaja, Subir Bhattacharjee, Arian Edalat, David Jassby, and Eric M. V. Hoek. "Produced Water Desalination via Pervaporative Distillation." Water 12, no. 12 (December 18, 2020): 3560. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w12123560.
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Herein, we report on the performance of a hybrid organic-ceramic hydrophilic pervaporation membrane applied in a vacuum membrane distillation operating mode to desalinate laboratory prepared saline waters and a hypersaline water modeled after a real oil and gas produced water. The rational for performing “pervaporative distillation” is that highly contaminated waters like produced water, reverse osmosis concentrates and industrial have high potential to foul and scale membranes, and for traditional porous membrane distillation membranes they can suffer pore-wetting and complete salt passage. In most of these processes, the hard to treat feed water is commonly softened and filtered prior to a desalination process. This study evaluates pervaporative distillation performance treating: (1) NaCl solutions from 10 to 240 g/L at crossflow Reynolds numbers from 300 to 4800 and feed-temperatures from 60 to 85 °C and (2) a real produced water composition chemically softened to reduce its high-scale forming mineral content. The pervaporative distillation process proved highly-effective at desalting all feed streams, consistently delivering <10 mg/L of dissolved solids in product water under all operating condition tested with reasonably high permeate fluxes (up to 23 LMH) at optimized operating conditions.
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Kadhom, Mohammed, Noor Albayati, Suhaib Salih, Mustafa Al-Furaiji, Mohamed Bayati, and Baolin Deng. "Role of Cellulose Micro and Nano Crystals in Thin Film and Support Layer of Nanocomposite Membranes for Brackish Water Desalination." Membranes 9, no. 8 (August 15, 2019): 101. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/membranes9080101.
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Reverse osmosis is a major process that produces soft water from saline water, and its output represents the majority of the overall desalination plants production. Developing efficient membranes for this process is the aim of many research groups and companies. In this work, we studied the effect of adding cellulose micro crystals (CMCs) and cellulose nano crystals (CNCs) to the support layer and thin film nanocomposite (TFN) membrane on the desalination performance. SEM, TEM, ATR-FTIR, and contact angle measurements were used to characterize the membrane’s properties; and membrane’s performance were evaluated by water flux and NaCl rejection. Filling 2% of CNCs gel in the support layer improved the water flux by +40%, while salt rejection maintained almost the same, around 95%. However, no remarkable improvement was gained by adding CNCs gel to m-phenylenediamine (MPD) solution, which was used in TFN membrane preparation. Filling CMCs powder in TFN membrane led to a slight improvement in terms of water flux.
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Saeed, Mohamed O., Ghazzai F. Al-Otaibi, and M. I. Mohamed Ershath. "Fungal and marine shell fouling in desalination plant equipment." Journal of Water Reuse and Desalination 9, no. 4 (August 13, 2019): 423–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wrd.2019.026.
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Abstract The Saudi Arabian Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC) aims to maintain an uninterrupted desalinated water output and has tasked its Desalination Technologies Research Institute (DTRI) with trouble-shooting operational problems and unusual events faced by its desalination plants. Three events were reported and investigated by DTRI. Two were found to involve fungal fouling, and one was found to involve fouling by marine shells. One case of fungal fouling involved a new seawater reverse osmosis membrane and the plant was advised to review the handling and storage practice of membranes. The other case involved product water hoses and manifested itself in the form of black slimy deposits arising from dense fungal growth. The fungus originated from new product hoses and was eliminated by shock-dosing replacement hoses with chlorine. The marine shell fouling involved a feed water line of a combined power/desalination plant. Chlorine, hydrochloric acid, ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid, and fresh water were used to assess their ability to control marine shell fouling in laboratory experiments, with varying results. Since high doses of chlorine were not effective in controlling marine shell fouling, the practice of continuous chlorination should be abandoned in favor of an alternative chlorination regimen, e.g., pulse chlorination.
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Mulopo, J., and V. Radebe. "Recovery of calcium carbonate from waste gypsum and utilization for remediation of acid mine drainage from coal mines." Water Science and Technology 66, no. 6 (September 1, 2012): 1296–300. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wst.2012.322.
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The recovery of calcium carbonate from waste gypsum (a waste product of the reverse osmosis (RO) desalination process) was tested using sodium carbonate. Batch recovery of calcium carbonate from waste gypsum slurries by reacting with sodium carbonate under ambient conditions was used to assess the technical feasibility of CaCO3 recovery and its use for pre-treatment of acid mine drainage (AMD) from coal mines. The effect of key process parameters, such as the slurry concentration (%) and the molar ratio of sodium carbonate to gypsum were considered. It was observed that batch waste gypsum conversion significantly increased with decrease in the slurry concentration or increase in the molar ratio of sodium carbonate to gypsum. The CaCO3 recovered from the bench-scale batch reactor demonstrated effective neutralization ability during AMD pre-treatment compared with commercial laboratory grade CaCO3.
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Caballero, Alejandro, Pablo Caballero, Federico León, Bruno Rodríguez-Morgado, Luis Martín, Juan Parrado, Jenifer Vaswani, and Alejandro Ramos-Martín. "Conversion of Whey into Value-Added Products through Fermentation and Membrane Fractionation." Water 13, no. 12 (June 9, 2021): 1623. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w13121623.
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The cheese whey (95% composed of water) is an effluent produced in the cheese industry, of which more than 1.5 million tons are generated in Spain, constituting a serious environmental problem. The process starts with a new fermentative/enzymatic technology that totally converts whey, mainly composed by lactose, proteins, and salts, into a fermented product with higher added value. This new product is mainly composed by lactic acid bacteria biomass, ammonium lactate, and a protein hydrolysate. To separate valuable fractions, this fermented product is processed by a two-stage membrane system, which is a very innovative process in this type of fermented product. The first stage consists of ultrafiltration to separate all suspended solids. As a result of this stage, a product mainly constituted by lactic acid bacteria that have both agronomic applications, mainly as a biocontrol and biofertilizer/bio-stimulant, and applications in animal feeding as a probiotic, is obtained. The second stage consists of reverse osmosis used to concentrate the ultrafiltered permeate obtained earlier, leading to a microbiologically stable product and reducing transport costs. The concentrate is mainly composed of ammonium lactate and a protein hydrolysate, constituted by peptides and free amino acids, which has application both in agriculture as a bio-stimulant and in animal feeding, and the permeate is water, reusable in other industrial processes. This work demonstrates the technical feasibility of this valorization process to achieve the objective of “Waste 0” from a problematic by-product, while obtaining products with commercial utility.
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Leandro, Maria José, Susana Marques, Belina Ribeiro, Helena Santos, and César Fonseca. "Integrated Process for Bioenergy Production and Water Recycling in the Dairy Industry: Selection of Kluyveromyces Strains for Direct Conversion of Concentrated Lactose-Rich Streams into Bioethanol." Microorganisms 7, no. 11 (November 9, 2019): 545. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/microorganisms7110545.
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Dairy industries have a high environmental impact, with very high energy and water consumption and polluting effluents. To increase the sustainability of these industries it is urgent to implement technologies for wastewater treatment allowing water recycling and energy savings. In this study, dairy wastewater was processed by ultrafiltration and nanofiltration or ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis (UF/RO) and retentates from the second membrane separation processes were assessed for bioenergy production. Lactose-fermenting yeasts were tested in direct conversion of the retentates (lactose-rich streams) into bioethanol. Two Kluyveromyces strains efficiently fermented all the lactose, with ethanol yields higher than 90% (>0.47 g/g yield). Under severe oxygen-limiting conditions, the K. marxianus PYCC 3286 strain reached 70 g/L of ethanol, which is compatible with energy-efficient distillation processes. In turn, the RO permeate is suitable for recycling into the cleaning process. The proposed integrated process, using UF/RO membrane technology, could allow water recycling (RO permeate) and bioenergy production (from RO retentate) for a more sustainable dairy industry.
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Sharma, Nisha, Jaspal Singh, and Barjinder Kaur. "Performance Study of Some Reverse Osmosis Systems for Removal of Uranium and Total Dissolved Solids in Underground Waters of Punjab State, India." JOURNAL OF ADVANCES IN PHYSICS 4, no. 2 (April 22, 2014): 467–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.24297/jap.v4i2.2033.
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Radionuclides (uranium, thorium, radium, radon gas etc.) are found naturally in air, water, soil and rock. Everyday, we ingest and inhale these radionuclides through the air we breathe and through food and water we take. Out of the internal exposure via ingestion of radionuclides, water contributes the major portion. The natural radioactivity of water is due to the activity transfer from bed rock and soils. In our surveys carried out in the past few years, we have observed high concentrations of uranium and total dissolved solids (TDS) in drinking waters of some southern parts of Punjab State exceeding the safe limits recommended by national and international agencies. The main drinking water source is the underground water procured from different depths. Due to the highly saline taste, disorders in their digestive systems and other ailments, people are installing reverse osmosis (RO) systems in their houses. Some RO systems have been installed on commercial basis. The state government is also in the process of installing community RO systems at the village level. As high values of uranium are also undesired and may pose health hazards due to radioactivity and toxicity of uranium, we have conducted a survey in the field to study the performance of various RO systems for removal of uranium and TDS. Water samples from about forty RO systems from Faridkot, Mansa, Bathinda and Amritsar districts of Punjab State were collected and analyzed. Our results show that some RO systems are able to remove more than 99% of uranium in the underground waters used for drinking purposes. TDS values are also reduced considerably to the desired levels. So RO systems can be used to avoid the risk of unduly health problems posed by high concentrations of uranium and TDS in drinking water.
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Zhang, Xin, and Danny Reible. "Exploring the Function of Ion-Exchange Membrane in Membrane Capacitive Deionization via a Fully Coupled Two-Dimensional Process Model." Processes 8, no. 10 (October 19, 2020): 1312. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pr8101312.
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In the arid west, the freshwater supply of many communities is limited, leading to increased interest in tapping brackish water resources. Although reverse osmosis is the most common technology to upgrade saline waters, there is also interest in developing and improving alternative technologies. Here we focus on membrane capacitive deionization (MCDI), which has attracted broad attention as a portable and energy-efficient desalination technology. In this study, a fully coupled two-dimensional MCDI process model capable of capturing transient ion transport and adsorption behaviors was developed to explore the function of the ion-exchange membrane (IEM) and detect MCDI influencing factors via sensitivity analysis. The IEM enhanced desalination by improving the counter-ions’ flux and increased adsorption in electrodes by encouraging retention of ions in electrode macropores. An optimized cycle time was proposed with maximal salt removal efficiency. The usage of the IEM, high applied voltage, and low flow rate were discovered to enhance this maximal salt removal efficiency. IEM properties including water uptake volume fraction, membrane thickness, and fixed charge density had a marginal impact on cycle time and salt removal efficiency within certain limits, while increasing cell length and electrode thickness and decreasing channel thickness and dispersivity significantly improved overall performance.
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Botha, G. R., R. D. Sanderson, and C. A. Buckley. "Brief Historical Review of Membrane Development and Membrane Applications in Wastewater Treatment in Southern Africa." Water Science and Technology 25, no. 10 (May 1, 1992): 1–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wst.1992.0232.
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Away back in 1953 few people in the world, let alone South Africa, knew or had heard about membrane desalination, but there was an increasing awareness that electrodialysis had considerable potential for the desalination of brackish water. In South Africa the development of the new gold fields in the northern Orange Free State and the problems posed by the presence of excessive volumes of very saline mine waters stimulated interest in desalination and the CSIR* in collaboration with the mining industry became involved in the development of the electrodialysis process. By 1959 the largest brackish desalination plant in the world had been built and commissioned. South Africans were thus in the forefront of this technology, even to the extent of making the required membranes locally. Our historical review of membrane development and the applications of membrane technology in Southern Africa encompasses both pressure- and voltage-driven processes. Examples of the pressure processes are microfiltration, ultrafiltration and charged membrane ultrafiltration or nanofiltration, and finally reverse osmosis with fixed and dynamically formed membranes. The voltage-drive processes considered are electrodialysis and electrodialysis reversal.
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Schorr, Michael, Benjamín Valdez, Amir Eliezer, Ricardo Salinas, and Carlos Lora. "Managing corrosion in desalination plants." Corrosion Reviews 37, no. 2 (March 26, 2019): 103–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/corrrev-2018-0038.
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AbstractEnvironment quality, clean energy and worldwide water scarcity have been established today as central disciplines in modern science, engineering and technology. The innovative desalination technology of saline water (SW) contributes to alleviate these problems by producing fresh water from SW, mainly seawater and brackish water. Desalination plants (DPs) have a high level of corrosion risk as they handle and process aggressive SW under severe operating conditions, which include filtration, heat exchange, distillation, evaporation, agitation and circulation and high flow velocities, often turbulent. These SW, that is, sea, brackish and brines, cause localized corrosion such as pitting, crevice, galvanic and stress corrosion. In addition, biological fouling and mineral scaling are frequent nuisances that alter the equipment surface performance and induce corrosion. Two main technologies are used to obtain potable water and a brine for disposal: thermal evaporation and membrane separation, called reverse osmosis. The main way to minimize corrosion is the correct selection of corrosion-resistant materials for the fabrication of DP equipment, structures, installations and machinery. To protect the DP materials, industrial paints, polymeric coatings and rubber linings compatible with the DP fluids are applied. Cathodic protection with sacrificial anodic metals and/or impressed direct electrical current and corrosion inhibitors are supplied.
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Ciptaraharja, Iman, and Veronica S. Praptowidodo. "Membran nonofiltrasi untuk penghilangan ion valensi tinggi dan senyawa organik dari sumber air salinitas tinggi." Jurnal Teknik Kimia Indonesia 5, no. 3 (October 2, 2018): 478. http://dx.doi.org/10.5614/jtki.2006.5.3.3.
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Utilization of nanofiltration membrane for high valence ion and organic compound removing from high salinized water source.The influence of solvent selection to membrane morphology for cellulose acetate nanofiltration membrane preparation in mass transfer of a multistage reverse osmosis process is studied. Membrane is prepared via precipitation immersion technique. The polymer used in this study is cellulose acetate (CA) with a concentration of 25 %-w. The feed concentration of univalent ion solution (NaCl) is varied between 2000-16.000 mg/L. The operating pressure is adjusted such that the operating pressure is three times of the osmotic pressure of NaCl solution. The concentration of bivalent ion (CaCl2), trivalent ion (FeCl3), and organic substance (glucose) are 200 mg/L, 50 mg/L, and 100 mg/L, respectively. The morphology of the membrane is characterized using Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM). Membrane CA-01 (CA/DMF/Water) is a nanofiltration membrane with a thinner active layer and a more porous support layer than membrane CA-02 (CA/Aceton/Watter) which is categorized as a reverse osmosis membrane. A reduced feed concentration (at a fixed operating pressure) gives an elevated flux however the rejection is decreased. Meanwhile, an elevated operating pressure (at a fixed feed concentration) gives an elevated flux and rejection. Membrane CA-01 has met the requirement as a nanofiltration membrane since it gives 66 % rejection for NaCl at 20 Bar. At the same operating pressure, membrane CA-01 gives rejection for CaCl2, FeCl3, and glucose of 80.45%, 82.14%, and 83.42%, respectively.Keywords: Cellulose Acetate, Membrane, Multistage, Nanotiltration, Reverse Osmosis, Saline WaterAbstrakPenelitian ini dilakukan untuk mempelajari pengaruh jenis pelarut dalam pembuatan membran nanofiltrasi dari polimer selulosa asetat terhadap struktur morfologi membran dalam peristiwa perpindahan massa pada proses pemisalan osmosis balik multitahap. Teknik pembuatan membran yang digunakan adalah presipitasi imersi. Polimer membran yang digunakan adalah seulosa asetat (CA) pada konsentrasi 25 %-berat. Umpan yang digunakan adalah larutan ion valensi satu (NaCl) dengan variasi konsentrasi antara 2000 hingga 16.000 mg/L. Tekanan operasi diatur sedemikian rupa sehingga nilai rekanan operasi adalah sekitar tiga kali tekanan osmotik larutan NaCl. Percobaan juga dilakukan untuk umpan larutan ion valensi dua (CaCl2), ion valensi tiga (FeCl3), dan senyawa organik (glukosa) dengan konsentrasi, berturut-turut, adalah 200 mg/L, 50 mg/L, dan 100 mg/L. Struktur morfologi membran diuji menggunakan metoda Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM). Membran CA-01 (CA/DMF/Air) merupakan membran nanofiltrasi dengan lapisan aktif yang lebih tipis dan ukuran pori lapisan penyangga yang lebih besar daripada membran CA-02 (CA/Aseton/Air), yang termasuk ke dalam membran osmosis balik. Penurunan konsentrasi umpan pada tekanan operasi yang tetap memberikan nilai fluks yang meningkat, namun memberikan nilai rejeksi yang menurun. Sementara itu, peningkatan tekanan operasi pada konsentrasi umpan yang tetap akan memberikan nilai fluks dan rejeksi yang meningkat. Membran CA-01 telah memenuhi persyaratan sebagai membran nanofiltrasi dengan rejeksi NaCl mencapai 66 % pada tekanan 20 Bar. Pada tekanan yang sama membran CA-01 memberikan nilai rejeksi untuk CaCl2, FeCl3, dan glukosa berturut-turut sebesar 80,45%, 82,14%, dan 83,42 %.Kata Kunci: Air Salinitas Tinggi, Membran, Multitahap, Nanofiltrasi, Osmosis Balik, Selulosa Asetat.
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Jones, Gavin O., Alexander Yuen, Rudy J. Wojtecki, James L. Hedrick, and Jeannette M. García. "Computational and experimental investigations of one-step conversion of poly(carbonate)s into value-added poly(aryl ether sulfone)s." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 113, no. 28 (June 27, 2016): 7722–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1600924113.
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It is estimated that ∼2.7 million tons poly(carbonate)s (PCs) are produced annually worldwide. In 2008, retailers pulled products from store shelves after reports of bisphenol A (BPA) leaching from baby bottles, reusable drink bottles, and other retail products. Since PCs are not typically recycled, a need for the repurposing of the PC waste has arisen. We report the one-step synthesis of poly(aryl ether sulfone)s (PSUs) from the depolymerization of PCs and in situ polycondensation with bis(aryl fluorides) in the presence of carbonate salts. PSUs are high-performance engineering thermoplastics that are commonly used for reverse osmosis and water purification membranes, medical equipment, as well as high temperature applications. PSUs generated through this cascade approach were isolated in high purity and yield with the expected thermal properties and represent a procedure for direct conversion of one class of polymer to another in a single step. Computational investigations performed with density functional theory predict that the carbonate salt plays two important catalytic roles in this reaction: it decomposes the PCs by nucleophilic attack, and in the subsequent polyether formation process, it promotes the reaction of phenolate dimers formed in situ with the aryl fluorides present. We envision repurposing poly(BPA carbonate) for the production of value-added polymers.
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Alqaed, Saeed, Jawed Mustafa, and Fahad Awjah Almehmadi. "Design and Energy Requirements of a Photovoltaic-Thermal Powered Water Desalination Plant for the Middle East." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 3 (January 23, 2021): 1001. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18031001.
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Seawater or brackish water desalination is largely powered by fossil fuels, raising concerns about greenhouse gas emissions, particularly in the arid Middle East region. Many steps have been taken to implement solar resources to this issue; however, all attempts for all processing were concentrated on solar to electric conversion. To address these challenges, a small-scale reverse-osmosis (RO) desalination system that is in part powered by hybrid photovoltaic/thermal (PVT) solar collectors appropriate for a remote community in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) was designed and its power requirements calculated. This system provides both electricity to the pumps and low-temperature thermal energy to pre-heat the feedwater to reduce its viscosity, and thus to reduce the required pumping energy for the RO process and for transporting the feedwater. Results show that both thermal and electrical energy storage, along with conventional backup power, is necessary to operate the RO continuously and utilize all of the renewable energy collected by the PVT. A cost-optimal sizing of the PVT system is developed. It displays for a specific case that the hybrid PVT RO system employs 70% renewable energy while delivering desalinized water for a cost that is 18% less than the annual cost for driving the plant with 100% conventional electricity and no pre-heating of the feedwater. The design allows for the sizing of the components to achieve minimum cost at any desired level of renewable energy penetration.
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Honarparvar, Soraya, Xin Zhang, Tianyu Chen, Ashkan Alborzi, Khurshida Afroz, and Danny Reible. "Frontiers of Membrane Desalination Processes for Brackish Water Treatment: A Review." Membranes 11, no. 4 (March 29, 2021): 246. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/membranes11040246.
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Climate change, population growth, and increased industrial activities are exacerbating freshwater scarcity and leading to increased interest in desalination of saline water. Brackish water is an attractive alternative to freshwater due to its low salinity and widespread availability in many water-scarce areas. However, partial or total desalination of brackish water is essential to reach the water quality requirements for a variety of applications. Selection of appropriate technology requires knowledge and understanding of the operational principles, capabilities, and limitations of the available desalination processes. Proper combination of feedwater technology improves the energy efficiency of desalination. In this article, we focus on pressure-driven and electro-driven membrane desalination processes. We review the principles, as well as challenges and recent improvements for reverse osmosis (RO), nanofiltration (NF), electrodialysis (ED), and membrane capacitive deionization (MCDI). RO is the dominant membrane process for large-scale desalination of brackish water with higher salinity, while ED and MCDI are energy-efficient for lower salinity ranges. Selective removal of multivalent components makes NF an excellent option for water softening. Brackish water desalination with membrane processes faces a series of challenges. Membrane fouling and scaling are the common issues associated with these processes, resulting in a reduction in their water recovery and energy efficiency. To overcome such adverse effects, many efforts have been dedicated toward development of pre-treatment steps, surface modification of membranes, use of anti-scalant, and modification of operational conditions. However, the effectiveness of these approaches depends on the fouling propensity of the feed water. In addition to the fouling and scaling, each process may face other challenges depending on their state of development and maturity. This review provides recent advances in the material, architecture, and operation of these processes that can assist in the selection and design of technologies for particular applications. The active research directions to improve the performance of these processes are also identified. The review shows that technologies that are tunable and particularly efficient for partial desalination such as ED and MCDI are increasingly competitive with traditional RO processes. Development of cost-effective ion exchange membranes with high chemical and mechanical stability can further improve the economy of desalination with electro-membrane processes and advance their future applications.
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Jia, Huanfei, and Johann Poinapen. "Coal seam gas associated water treatment and management—opportunities and limitations." APPEA Journal 53, no. 1 (2013): 185. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/aj12015.
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Coal seam gas (CSG) is a new major export for Australia. The production of CSG releases a significant amount of brackish water to the surface, known as associated water. Queensland’s Department of Environment and Heritage Protection (DEHP) has predicted that the peak yearly flow of the associated water could range between 100-280 gigalitres (GL) per year. This presents a major challenge to the CSG industry in water and its by-product (brine) management. CSG water quality varies across regions, but is typically high in total dissolved solids, bicarbonate, hardness, and silica. Consequently, CSG water without treatment is unsuitable for beneficial uses. To date, reverse osmosis (RO) desalination processes with suitable pre-treatment steps have been employed to remove elevated salts and other compounds before CSG water can be used beneficially. One type of beneficial reuse of the treated water that has gained acceptance and prominence in recent times is the irrigation of agricultural crops and forestry. RO brine, a highly saline stream, requires a managed response to ensure a socially, environmentally and financially sound outcome. Conventional evaporation in brine ponds is not considered favourably under existing government directions and, consequently, alternative solutions are sought. Thermal processes, such as brine concentrators, have been used in the treatment of CSG RO brine. The resulting high-quality distillate produced by thermal processes can be used in a number of applications along with a greater proportion of water recovered from such processes. This peer-reviewed paper concludes that a thermal process in conjunction with a high-recovery RO membrane plant, configured as a hybrid membrane/thermal configuration, is probably a suitable solution to meet policy direction by improving system recovery as a precursor to advance associated water treatment and brine management. The discussion is generated out of MWH’s experience with CSG water treatment and management processes, which totals a number of significant projects in the CSG industry.
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Tjahjono, Tri, Mehdi Ali Ehyaei, Abolfazl Ahmadi, Siamak Hoseinzadeh, and Saim Memon. "Thermo-Economic Analysis on Integrated CO2, Organic Rankine Cycles, and NaClO Plant Using Liquefied Natural Gas." Energies 14, no. 10 (May 14, 2021): 2849. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en14102849.
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The thermal energy conversion of natural gas (NG) using appropriate configuration cycles represents one of the best nonrenewable energy resources because of its high heating value and low environmental effects. The natural gas can be converted to liquefied natural gas (LNG), via the liquefaction process, which is used as a heat source and sink in various multigeneration cycles. In this paper, a new configuration cycle is proposed using LNG as a heat source and heat sink. This new proposed cycle includes the CO2 cycle, the organic Rankine cycle (ORC), a heater, a cooler, an NaClO plant, and reverse osmosis. This cycle generates electrical power, heating and cooling energy, potable water (PW), hydrogen, and salt all at the same time. For this purpose, one computer program is provided in an engineering equation solver for energy, exergy, and thermo-economic analyses. The results for each subsystem are validated by previous researches in this field. This system produces 10.53 GWh electrical energy, 276.4 GWh cooling energy, 1783 GWh heating energy, 17,280 m3 potable water, 739.56 tons of hydrogen, and 383.78 tons of salt in a year. The proposed system energy efficiency is 54.3%, while the exergy efficiency is equal to 13.1%. The economic evaluation showed that the payback period, the simple payback period, the net present value, and internal rate of return are equal to 7.9 years, 6.9 years, 908.9 million USD, and 0.138, respectively.
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Soares, Tales Miler, Sergio Nascimento Duarte, Cristiano Nascimento Duarte, Christiano César Dibbern Graf, Marcelo Zanetti, and Silvio Sandoval Zocchi. "IRRIGAÇÃO DE PORTA-ENXERTOS CÍTRICOS COM ÁGUAS SALINAS." IRRIGA 11, no. 3 (September 14, 2006): 428–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.15809/irriga.2006v11n3p428-440.
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IRRIGAÇÃO DE PORTA-ENXERTOS CÍTRICOS COM ÁGUAS SALINAS Tales Miler Soares1; Sergio Nascimento Duarte1; Christiano César Dibbern Graf2; Marcelo Zanetti2; Silvio Sandoval Zocchi31Departamento de Engenharia Rural, Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz, Universidade de São Paulo, Piracicaba, SP, talesmiler@bol.com.br2Citrograf Mudas, Conchal, SP3Departamento de Ciências Exatas, Escola Superior de Agricultura Luiz de Queiroz, Universidade de São Paulo, Piracicaba, SP 1 RESUMO Avaliar o desenvolvimento dos porta-enxertos limoeiro ‘Cravo’, tangerineira ‘Cleópatra’ e citrumeleiro ‘Swingle’, irrigados com águas salinas, mensurando se a aplicação de Ca(NO3)2 mitiga eventuais efeitos de íons fitotóxicos, foi objetivo do presente trabalho, conduzido sob ambiente protegido, em Rio Claro-SP. Investigou-se três qualidades de água: água natural (CEa= 1,19 dS m-1), explorada de poço tubular profundo, água dessalinizada (CEa= 0,02 dS m-1), obtida mediante osmose reversa da água natural, e água residual (CEa= 2,11 dS m-1), sub-produto da dessalinização. Os níveis de Ca(NO3)2 avaliados foram 0 e 2,105 g L-1. Averiguando-se os parâmetros usuais do crescimento vegetal, não foram observadas diferenças estatísticas, entre os tratamentos, decorrentes da qualidade da água, embora se tenha registrado que esta contribuiu para o aumento da salinização do substrato, ultrapassando, inclusive, o valor da salinidade limiar (CEes= 1,4 dS m-1) reconhecido para os citros. A adição de Ca(NO3)2 não incrementou o desenvolvimento, atuando negativamente no crescimento inicial das raízes e do caule. O curto período necessário ao crescimento dos porta-enxertos, proporcionado pelo atual sistema de produção, associado às irrigações freqüentes e suas frações de lixiviação podem ter restringido efeitos negativos das águas salinas investigadas. UNITERMOS: Citrus, salinidade, condutividade elétrica, substrato. SOARES, T.M.; DUARTE, S.N.; GRAF, C.C.D.; ZANETTI, M.; ZOCCHI, S.S. CITRUS ROOTSTOCKS IRRIGATION WITH SALINE WATER 2 ABSTRACT This research aimed to evaluate the growth of three citrus rootstocks (‘Rangpur’ lime, ‘Cleopatra’ mandarin and ‘Swingle’ citrumelo) irrigated with saline waters, under greenhouse conditions, in order to measure if calcium nitrate mitigates their toxic effects. Three water qualities were investigated: natural water (ECw= 1,19 dS m-1), obtained from a deep tubular well, desalinated water (ECw= 0,02 dS m-1), obtained by reverse osmosis from the natural water, and reject water (ECw= 2,11 dS m-1), resultant from the desalination process. Two Ca(NO3)2 levels were evaluated: 0 and 2,105 g L-1. Usual parameters for plant growth analysis were measured. According to Tukey’s test (5% probability), water quality did not affect rootstocks development, although the water type have contributed to increase the electrical conductivity of substrate saturation extract (ECs) along the experimental period, surpassing the salinity threshold value (ECs = 1,4 dS m-1) reported for citrus. The Ca(NO3)2 addition did not increase the plant growth, but negatively affected the first evaluations of root and stem diameter development. The short time necessary to rootstocks growth provided by new production system, associated to the frequent irrigations and its leaching fractions possible may have restricted the negative effects of saline waters. KEYWORDS: Citrus, salinity, electrical conductivity, substrate.
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Lee, Julie. "Using Reverse Osmosis, Electrodialysis, and Nanofiltration to Increase Affordable Desalinated Groundwater Use in Texas." Maneto Undergraduate Research Journal 2, no. 1 (April 23, 2019). http://dx.doi.org/10.15367/m:turj.v2i1.162.
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Droughts and flooding that have impacted Texas have decreased surface water availability, while draining the limited number of non-saline groundwater sources. Therefore, desalination of saline groundwater would be able to supplement the increasing demand of water for industrial and domestic uses. The process would have to be affordable and capable of meeting WHO1 standards for drinking water. Of the current desalination options available, the methods analyzed are reverse osmosis, electrodialysis, and nanofiltration. Of the three options, it was determined that reverse osmosis was the best solution for the desalination of saline groundwater for both industrial and domestic uses. Reverse osmosis filters saline water to meet WHO standards for sodium and chloride ions. Although both RO and electrodialysis processes were effective enough for eliminating total dissolved solids in the sample saline waters, only RO yielded potable water. If this system is successfully implemented, it could supplement the nonsaline groundwater being used for human consumption, as well as yield RO discharge water for residential or industrial uses. As a result, the severe impacts of the reoccurring droughts in Texas can be reduced, while lessening the drainage of the non-saline groundwater reservoirs in Texas. Keywords: Desalinated Groundwater, Reverse Osmosis, Electrodialysis, Nanofiltration, cost- comparison, potable water, brackish water desalination
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Liang, Can Zeng, Mohammad Askari, Looh Tchuin Choong, and Tai-Shung Chung. "Ultra-strong polymeric hollow fiber membranes for saline dewatering and desalination." Nature Communications 12, no. 1 (April 20, 2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22684-1.
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AbstractOsmotically assisted reverse osmosis (OARO) has become an emerging membrane technology to tackle the limitations of a reverse osmosis (RO) process for water desalination. A strong membrane that can withstand a high hydraulic pressure is crucial for the OARO process. Here, we develop ultra-strong polymeric thin film composite (TFC) hollow fiber membranes with exceptionally high hydraulic burst pressures of up to 110 bar, while maintaining high pure water permeance of around 3 litre/(m2 h bar) and a NaCl rejection of about 98%. The ultra-strong TFC hollow fiber membranes are achieved mainly by tuning the concentration of the host polymer in spinning dopes and engineering the fiber dimension and morphology. The optimal TFC membranes display promising water permeance under the OR and OARO operation modes. This work may shed new light on the fabrication of ultra-strong TFC hollow fiber membranes for water treatments and desalination.
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Emdadi, Arash, Mansour Zenouzi, Amir Lak, Behzad Panahirad, Yunus Emami, Farshad Lak, and Gregory J. Kowalski. "Exergy Analysis-Potential of Salinity Gradient Energy Source." Journal of Energy Resources Technology 140, no. 7 (February 15, 2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/1.4038964.
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Mixing of fresh (river) water and salty water (seawater or saline brine) in a controlled environment produces an electrical energy known as salinity gradient energy (SGE). Two main conversion technologies of SGE are membrane-based processes: pressure retarded osmosis (PRO) and reverse electrodialysis (RED). Exergy calculations for a representative river-lake system are investigated using available data in the literature between 2000 and 2008 as a case study. An exergy analysis of an SGE system of sea-river is applied to calculate the maximum potential power for electricity generation. Seawater is taken as reference environment (global dead state) for calculating the exergy of fresh water since the sea is the final reservoir. Aqueous sodium chloride solution model is used to calculate the thermodynamic properties of seawater. This model does not consider seawater as an ideal solution and provides accurate thermodynamics properties of sodium chloride solution. The chemical exergy analysis considers sodium chloride (NaCl) as main salt in the water of this highly saline Lake with concentration of more than 200 g/L. The potential power of this system is between 150 and 329 MW depending on discharge of river and salinity gradient between the Lake and the River based on the exergy results. This result indicates a high potential for constructing power plant for SGE conversion. Semipermeable membranes with lifetime greater than 10 years and power density higher than 5 W/m2 would lead to faster development of this conversion technology.