Search results for seawater desalination

Environment May 13, 2024

More desalination is coming to Australia's driest states—but super-salty outflows could trash ecosystems and fisheries

From around 1996 to 2010, Australia was gripped by the millennium drought. As water shortages bit hard, most of Australia's capital cities built large seawater desalination plants—Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne and ...

Environment Apr 23, 2024

A new electrochemical approach could reduce ocean acidity and remove carbon in the process

In the effort to combat the catastrophic impacts of global warming, we must accelerate carbon emissions reduction efforts and rapidly scale strategies to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere and the oceans. The ...

Earth Sciences Mar 30, 2024

New electrochemical technology could de-acidify the oceans—and even remove carbon dioxide in the process

In the effort to combat the catastrophic impacts of global warming, we must accelerate carbon emissions reduction efforts and rapidly scale strategies to remove carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere and the oceans. The ...

Nanomaterials Nov 22, 2022

Experiment demonstrates nanoscale structures can improve reverse osmosis seawater desalination

A multinational team of researchers have developed a process that builds on the success of current reverse osmosis processes that remove salt from seawater. Researchers led by Professor Heqing Jiang, of the Qingdao Institute ...

Materials Science Nov 10, 2021

Extracting high-quality magnesium sulphate from seawater desalination brine

Given that mining to extract high-grade mineral ores is wastefully energy intensive, exhaustible, and bad for the environment, scientists have been scouting for alternatives. A group of Korean researchers, led by Professor ...

Materials Science Jun 27, 2013

Drinking water from the sea: Electrochemically mediated seawater desalination in microfluidic systems

(Phys.org) —A new method for the desalination of sea water has been reported by a team of American and German researchers in the journal Angewandte Chemie. In contrast to conventional methods, this technique consumes little ...

Materials Science Oct 5, 2012

A more affordable, accessible material for seawater desalination

There are vast quantities of seawater available; drinking water, on the other hand, is in scarce supply. Desalination plants can convert seawater to drinking water. Yet these plants require pipelines made of a special kind ...

Engineering Feb 29, 2008

Dutch University Tests Windmill for Seawater Desalination

A traditional windmill which drives a pump: that is the simple concept behind the combination of windmill/reverse osmosis developed by the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) in The Netherlands. In this case, it involves ...

Nanomaterials Nov 9, 2020

A biomimetic membrane for desalinating seawater on an industrial scale

The treatment of seawater, including its large-scale desalination, is a major challenge for our society. Reverse osmosis is one of the most widely used techniques for the desalination of water. Some of the membranes currently ...

Materials Science Mar 27, 2019

Ultrabright X-rays reveal the molecular structure of membranes used to desalinate seawater

For the first time, a team of researchers from Stony Brook University and the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory has revealed the molecular structure of membranes used in reverse osmosis. The ...

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