Researchers from Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Manufacturing have developed a novel off-grid direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD) system that ...

Flocean, a Norwegian company, is set to open the world’s first commercial-scale subsea desalination plant, an approach that ...

The dual "thermal + membrane" technology leads green water treatment solutions, sets global benchmark for project ...

Graphene-based membranes have emerged as a transformative platform in separation science, offering the unique combination of atomic thinness, high mechanical strength and chemically tuneable ...

There are more than 21,000 desalination plants around the world, according to statistics from the European Union, and those plants pump out about 99 million m 3 of fresh water every day. Some regions ...

A viable solution is seawater desalination via membrane separation to clean water. However, most membranes are limited by low water flux since membrane quality is compromised during preparation due to ...

The world faces a dire freshwater crisis. According to the UN, half of the global population currently faces severe ...

A team of researchers has developed a new kind of “smart” dynamic membrane that could make desalination more viable in parts of the world that depend on it, particularly in the Middle East and North ...

From Cape Town to Tehran to Lima to Phoenix, dozens of cities across the globe have experienced water shortages recently. And in the next five years the world’s demand for fresh water could ...

The limited freshwater sources and the ease of water pollution necessitate efficient treatment systems. Membranes are commonly employed as filters and quality control materials in water treatment ...