Salt isolation from waste brine enabled by interfacial solar evaporation with zero liquid discharge
Yida Wang, Xuan Wu, Pan Wu, Huimin Yu, Jingyuan Zhao, Xiaofei Yang, Qin Li, Zhezi Zhang, Dongke Zhang, Gary Owens, Haolan Xu
Abstract
An affordable and easy-to-fabricate solar evaporation-based crystallizer (SEC) was developed to implement interfacial brine evaporation towards zero liquid discharge (ZLD).
Topics & Concepts
BrineEvaporationSalt (chemistry)Environmental scienceIsolation (microbiology)Materials scienceWaste managementChemical engineeringEnvironmental engineeringChemistryThermodynamicsEngineeringOrganic chemistryPhysicsBiologyMicrobiologySolar-Powered Water Purification MethodsMembrane Separation Technologies