Solute displacement in the aqueous phase of water–NaCl–organic ternary mixtures relevant to solvent-driven water treatment
Joshua S. McNally, Zi Hao Foo, Akshay Deshmukh, Christopher J. Orme, John H. Lienhard, Aaron D. Wilson
Abstract
from a saturated solution, a challenging scalant. DME-driven water softening recycles the DME within the system improving the atom-efficiency over existing seawater desalination pretreatments by avoiding chemical consumption.
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ChemistryAqueous solutionTernary operationPhase (matter)SolventAqueous two-phase systemTetrahydrofuranSalt (chemistry)Inorganic chemistrySolvophobicChemical engineeringOrganic chemistryComputer scienceEngineeringProgramming languageMembrane-based Ion Separation TechniquesMembrane Separation TechnologiesGroundwater flow and contamination studies