Fresh method or readjustment | Description |
Nanostructured membranes | Such membranes possess until 20% bigger productivity than traditional ones, or they could function at the identical productivity but employ until 15% less energy. |
Carbon nanotubes | If carbon nanotubes with much bigger productivity could be suggested, then this may slash desalination prices to the level of traditional water treatment techniques during ten years. |
Forward osmosis (FO) | Such type of osmosis, presently utilized mostly for industrial wastewater treatment, is being expanded for drinking water, with the capacity to decrease energy use until one-third. |
Membrane distillation (MD) | Such version of distillation technology can mainly double the recovery ratio from SW (from 45% - 50% to 80%). |
Dewvaporation | Dewvaporation, a low-temperature, low-price evaporation technique at an early step of expansion, can diminish the prices of thermal evaporation until one-quarter, especially in hot, dry regions. |
Adsorption techniques | Such methods could decrease scaling and corrosion in thermal plants, even if the techniques remain costly. |
Electrochemical desalination | Electrochemical desalination can considerably decrease prices until 15%via more efficacious energy usage. |
Capacitive deionization (CDI) | CDI can bring priced is counts until one-third if the numerous technique dares could be beat to render it a main stream solution. |
Biomimetic membranes with aquaporin structures | These membranes, which are membranes modeled on those of living organisms, can furnish the ultimate breakthrough in low-energy desalination. Intensive research is undertaken; however, it stays in the early steps. |