Water desalination plants could replace expensive chemicals with new carbon cloth electrodes that remove boron from seawater, an important step of turning seawater into safe drinking water.

A new tapered flow channel design for electrodes improves the efficiency of battery-based seawater desalination, potentially reducing energy use compared to reverse osmosis. This breakthrough may ...

Desalination of seawater with reverse osmosis (RO) membranes is a key technology for addressing water scarcity issues around ...

Engineers have found a way to eliminate the fluid flow 'dead zones' that plague the types of electrodes used for battery-based seawater desalination ... energy than reverse osmosis techniques ...

The City of Cape Town aims to construct a permanent desalination plant in Paarden Eiland in 2026. If the plan receives all ...

Researchers have developed carbon cloth electrodes that efficiently remove boron from seawater, potentially replacing ...

New technology cuts chemical and energy use of removing salt from seawater. It could save millions of dollars, making ...

Membrane treatment is more efficient, while saltier water generates more brine. A common pairing, Qadir said, is a reverse osmosis desalination facility that uses sea water. For every 10 gallons that ...

Wan Yinhua from the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has developed a dual-functional reverse osmosis ... purification, seawater desalination, and high ...