A solvent-extraction approach for desalination of high-salinity brines

摘要

Hypersaline industrial wastewater brines are difficult to treat. Current approaches for removing salt from such brines — such as evaporative distillation and reverse-osmosis (RO) — are problematic because evaporation is highly energy-intensive and RO cannot handle salt levels present in hypersaline brines, which can be several times that of seawater.