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Economic and cost-effectiveness analysis of integrated desalination and brine treatment systems

LI, CHANGLIN (author)

The brine generated from desalination is a threat to the environment, and its disposal has been a great challenge. A new concept Zero liquid discharge (ZLD) can minimize the environmental impact of brine. However, the high costs for construction and running of a ZLD plant limits its growth in desalination market. Therefore, a new strategy...

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Comparison of Concentration Performance and Energy Consumption in Reverse Osmosis, Vacuum Membrane Distillation, and Electrodialysis for Brine Treatment

Woen, Monique (author)

Brine producing industries progressively become the centre of attentionas they carry greater environmental consequences. Despite the extensiveliterature that can be found on desalination, limited information is availableabout the practical comparison of the technologies with regards to the brineconcentration performance and associated energy...

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Benthic biodiversity near brine discharge sites in the Port of Rotterdam

Avramidi, Eleni (author), García Gómez, Sergio Carlos (author), Papaspyrou, Sokratis (author), Louca, Vasilis (author), Xevgenos, Dimitris (author), Küpper, Frithjof C. (author)

The Port of Rotterdam is a heavily man-modified estuarine system, Europe's major seaport and home to a large number of chemical and petrochemical plants, many of which are supplied with distilled water from two demineralized water plants in Botlek and Maasvlakte. In this study, we assessed the ecological conditions near the brine outfalls and...

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The role of porosity on degradation of concrete under severe internal and external brine attack in confined conditions

Sherzer, G. Lifshitz (author), Ye, G. (author), Schlangen, E. (author), Kovler, K. (author)

It has been observed that a trench wall embedded in the soil of the Dead Sea has lost strength and is deteriorating due to brine attack. This phenomenon demonstrates that concrete wall structural stability and durability can be seriously endangered. Yet conventional analysis using macroscopic models is considered an oversimplification, as it...

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Towards sustainable production of minerals and chemicals through seawater brine treatment using Eutectic freeze crystallization and Electrodialysis with bipolar membranes

Culcasi, A. (author), Ktori, R. (author), Pellegrino, A. (author), Rodriguez Pascual, M. (author), van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. (author), Tamburini, A. (author), Cipollina, A. (author), Xevgenos, Dimitris (author), Micale, G. (author)

European policy encourages the adoption of sustainable systems that promote the efficient use and recovery of minerals and chemicals. In this respect, desalination brines do contain a dramatic amount of valuable minerals and can be valorized through appropriate treatments rather than releasing them into the environment. This paper proposes an...

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Feasibility study of using desalination brine to control the stiffness and early-age hydration of 3D printable cementitious materials

Chen, Y. (author), Toosumran, Nuttapon (author), Chehab, Noura (author), Spanjers, H. (author), Copuroglu, Oguzhan (author)

This paper proposes the use of desalination brine as a setting and hydration activator in set-on-demand 3D concrete printing. A series of tests were conducted to investigate the effect of adding different concentrations of desalination brine on stiffness evolution and early-age hydration of Portland cement mortars (PC mixtures) and limestone...

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Valorisation of SWRO brines in a remote island through a circular approach: Techno-economic analysis and perspectives

Morgante, C. (author), Vassallo, F. (author), Xevgenos, Dimitris (author), Cipollina, A. (author), Micari, M. (author), Tamburini, A. (author), Micale, G. (author)

Nowadays, small remote islands rely heavily on desalination technologies to overcome freshwater scarcity. Unfortunately, these technologies are accompanied by the production of brines which can affect the receiving water bodies i.e., the aquatic ecosystem. Yet, it is extremely appealing how such brines constitute an abundant source of...

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Techno-Economic Analysis of Selected PV-BWRO Desalination Plants in the Context of the Water–Energy Nexus for Low–Medium-Income Countries

Bdour, Ahmed N. (author), Al-Sadeq, Noor (author), Gharaibeh, Muna (author), Mendoza-Sammet, Angeles (author), Kennedy, M.D. (author), Salinas-Rodriguez, Sergio G. (author)

Jordan was late in adopting seawater and brackish water desalination as a source until the late 1990s and early 2000s. However, ongoing studies are still discussing the technical, economic, and socio-political aspects of brackish water reverse osmosis (BWRO) desalination plants. In this study, the water–energy nexus was considered, in order...

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Valorization of coal mine effluents - Challenges and economic opportunities

Pawar, Nikhil Dilip (author), Harris, Steve (author), Mitko, Krzysztof (author), Korevaar, G. (author)

Coal-mine effluent treatment has the potential to both reduce the environmental impact of the effluent and provide economic opportunities by recovering valuable minerals and clean water. In this study, we modeled a novel treatment process, which includes nanofiltration (NF), two-step crystallization, reverse osmosis (RO), electrodialysis (ED),...

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Creating coagulants through the combined use of ash and brine

Hao, Xiaodi (author), Wang, Xiangyang (author), Shi, Chen (author), van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. (author), Wu, Yuanyuan (author)

Sludge incineration and seawater desalination are two approaches that can be used in the disposal of waste activated sludge (WAS) and for obtaining fresh water. As resource recovery from wastewater treatment and water purification is a topic of particular interest in these times, “water mining” has become a focus of research, with phosphate/P...

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Physicochemical model for simulating the chemical processes during the crystallization of minerals from spent ion exchange regenerant

Boncz, M.A. (author), van Linden, N. (author), Haidari, A.H. (author), Wang, Y. (author), Spanjers, H. (author)

Traditionally, industrial processes produce wastes that, even though often containing useful materials, are discarded, contributing to environmental pollution and depletion of natural resources. An example of such wastes are brines, flows of concentrated salts, produced in water treatment processes, which are now routinely discharged into...

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Contact angle measurement for hydrogen/brine/sandstone system using captive-bubble method relevant for underground hydrogen storage

Hashemi, L. (author), Glerum, Wuis (author), Farajzadeh, R. (author), Hajibeygi, H. (author)

Subsurface porous formations provide large capacities for underground hydrogen storage (UHS). Successful utilization of these porous reservoirs for UHS depends on accurate quantification of the hydrogen transport characteristics at continuum (macro) scale, specially in contact with other reservoir fluids. Relative-permeability and capillary...

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Aspects of environmental impacts of seawater desalination: Cyprus as a case study

Xevgenos, Dimitris (author), Marcou, M. (author), Louca, V. (author), Avramidi, E. (author), Ioannou, G. (author), Argyrou, M. (author), Stavrou, P. (author), Mortou, M. (author), Küpper, F. C. (author)

Cyprus relies on seawater desalination for a large part of its drinking water supply, with reverse osmosis providing more than 95% of the total desalination capacity in the country. Nevertheless, the environmental impacts of desalination for the Cypriot environment remain poorly understood. Using a combination of mining existing governmental...

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Sulfate precipitation treatment for NOM-rich ion exchange brines

Caltran, I. (author), Ayumurti Kukuh, Floriana (author), Rietveld, L.C. (author), Heijman, Sebastiaan (author)

Ion exchange (IEX) resins can remove natural organic matter (NOM) from drinking water sources. However, the IEX system produces a waste brine rich of sodium, chloride, NOM and sulfate. The treatment of the waste brine aims to recover a clean solution rich of sodium chloride, that can be reused to regenerate IEX resin. Previous research showed...

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Mitigation of Silica Scaling by Closed-Circuit Reverse Osmosis

Flambouris, Stelios (author)

Reverse osmosis (RO) is considered the most reliable and cost-effective membrane desalination technologyworldwide. However, it suffers significant performance limitations due to mainly inorganic foulinggenerated in the highly concentrated brine. Especially, scaling caused by silica and silicates depositionsresults in irreversible damages with...

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Effect of sodium chloride on the formation of ice and salt during eutectic freeze crystallization of sodium sulfate with a scenario study of real brine

Wu, HAO (author)

Brine streams from industry is a burden to the environment if not disposed properly. “Zero liquid discharge” (ZLD) is an ideal way of converting saline streams from waste to resource through multiple membrane-based or thermal-based treatment technologies. The utilization of the recovered resource minimizes both costs and environmental impacts....

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How do ions contribute to brine-hydrophobic hydrocarbon Interfaces? An in silico study

Badizad, Mohammad Hasan (author), Koleini, Mohammad Mehdi (author), Hartkamp, R.M. (author), Ayatollahi, Shahab (author), Ghazanfari, Mohammad Hossein (author)

HYPOTHESIS: The saltwater-oil interface is of broad implication in geochemistry and petroleum disciplines. To date, the main focus has been on the surface contribution of polar, heavy compounds of crude oil, widely neglecting the role of non-polar hydrocarbons. However, non-polar compounds are expected to contribute to characteristics of oil...

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Separating NOM from salts in ion exchange brine with ceramic nanofiltration

Caltran, I. (author), Rietveld, L.C. (author), Shorney-Darby, H. L. (author), Heijman, Sebastiaan (author)

In drinking water treatment, natural organic matter (NOM) is effectively removed from surface water using ion exchange (IEX). A main drawback of using IEX for NOM removal is the production of spent IEX regeneration brine, a polluting waste that is expensive to discharge. In this work, we studied ceramic nanofiltration as a treatment for the...

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Separation of natural organic matter and sodium chloride for salt recovery purposes in zero liquid discharge

van Linden, N. (author), Shang, R. (author), Stockinger, Georg (author), Heijman, Sebastiaan (author), Spanjers, H. (author)

The application of zero liquid discharge (ZLD) results in the generation of solid residual streams, which are often not fit for reuse. In this study, we assessed the separation of natural organic matter (NOM) and sodium chloride (NaCl) by nanofiltration (NF), electrodialysis (ED) and ion exchange (IEX) in reverse osmosis brine (RO-brine) and by...

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Life Cycle Assessment and Life Cycle Costing on Brine Effluent Treatment: A Case Study of the Zero Brine Project in the Netherlands

Panteleaki Tourkodimitri, Kallirroi (author)

The water crisis is one of the most important global risks influencing humanity. Urbanization as well as economic, social and technological evolution have led to water overconsumption across the world and thus to water scarcity. Industry comprises one of the main water consumers along with agriculture and municipalities. At the same time,...

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