We have designed a porous nanofluidic desalination device, a rotating carbon nanotube membrane filter (RCNT-MF), for the reverse osmosis desalination that can turn salt water into fresh water. The concept as well as design strategy of RCNT-MF is modeled, and demonstrated by using molecular dynamics simulation. It has been shown that the RCNT-MF device may significantly improve desalination effi...

In this review, the new solar water treatment technologies, including desalination in two direct and indirect methods, are comprehensively presented. Recent advances applications of five major technologies include solar-powered humidification–dehumidification, multi-stage flash desalination, multi-effect RO, stills. Each technology’s productivity, energy consumption, production costs Also, comm...

Nowadays, small remote islands rely heavily on desalination technologies to overcome freshwater scarcity. Unfortunately, these are accompanied by the production of brines which can affect receiving water bodies i.e., aquatic ecosystem. Yet, it is extremely appealing how such constitute an abundant source valuable raw materials (such as magnesium). In this work, a novel hybrid system introduced ...

Solar-Driven Desalination In article number 2300134, Chengbing Wang, Dan Wei, and co-workers propose a synergistic strategy of water skin effect double-sided evaporation for boosting all-weather high salinity desalination. An all-in-one arched evaporator with long-term salt rejection, water-electricity generation is constructed. The effectively enhances solar desalination performance.

The purpose of this study is to propose a theoretical framework based on a balanced scorecard (BSC) for performance measurement in the water desalination supply chain (WDSC). The reason for choosing this context is that the supply chain (SC) of water desalination has received a great amount of attention, due to issues related to the increased need of fresh water for agricultural, industrial and...

The ever increasing demand of water permits the need of alternative water sources for balancing the water supply and demand. Desalination has become a significant alternative water source due to growing demand of water and inadequate conventional water sources in many countries. Desalination is a process of removing excess salts and other dissolved solids from water in order to get clean water ...

Seawater desalination, the desalination of waters flowing back from hydraulic fracturing processes and brackish water desalination constitute important desalination applications. These have a combined market size in excess of $25 billion per annum and a combined water production rate equivalent to the domestic consumption of over 300 million people. Each application offers its own distinct chal...

Maximum entropy discrimination (MED) is a general framework for discriminative estimation which integrates the principles of maximum entropy and maximum margin. In this paper, we propose a novel approach named multi-kernel MED (MKMED) for multi-view learning (MVL), which takes advantage of the complementary principle for MVL. Multiple kernels encode the similarities in different views. We obtai...