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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 Nov 2, 2021

How to do a better job of cleaning salty water? By keeping desalination tools dry

Growing up in Seattle, Allyson McGaughey, USC Viterbi School of Engineering Ph.D. '21, was never faced with the daily reality of drought. In the increasingly hot and dry desert of Los Angeles, however, the scarcity of water ...

Environment Aug 27, 2021

A 1,000-year drought is hitting the West: Could desalination be a solution?

The United States and many other parts of the world are reeling under the impacts of severe drought. One possible solution is the desalination of seawater, but is it a silver bullet?

Environment Jun 13, 2021

Drought-hit Jordan to build Red Sea desalination plant

Jordan said Sunday it plans to build a Red Sea desalination plant operating within five years, to provide the mostly-desert and drought-hit kingdom with critical drinking water.

Nanomaterials May 27, 2021

High-capacity pseudocapacitive electrodes by valence engineering developed for desalination

Recently, the researchers from Institute of Solid State Physics, Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences used valence engineering to develop three manganese oxides as electrodes with ...

Analytical Chemistry Feb 22, 2021

A salt solution for desalinating brine

Solar-powered brine crystallization could alleviate the environmental impacts of seawater desalination.

Nanomaterials Nov 3, 2020

Boron nitride coating is key ingredient in hypersaline desalination technology

A thin coating of the 2-D nanomaterial hexagonal boron nitride is the key ingredient in a cost-effective technology developed by Rice University engineers for desalinating industrial-strength brine.

Nanomaterials Sep 21, 2020

Carbon nanotubes developed for super efficient desalination

Membrane separations have become critical to human existence, with no better example than water purification. As water scarcity becomes more common and communities start running out of cheap available water, they need to ...

Environment Jun 26, 2020

Unorthodox desalination method could transform global water management

Water security is becoming an urgent global challenge. Hundreds of millions of people already live in water-scarce regions, and the UN projects that by 2030 about half the world's population will be living in highly water-stressed ...

Bio & Medicine Aug 21, 2019

Technique could make better membranes for next-generation filtration and desalination

Deriving drinkable water from seawater, treating wastewater and conducting kidney dialysis are just a few important processes that use a technology called membrane filtration.

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