It is here: Developing Salt-Rejecting Evaporators for Solar Desalination: A Critical Review Zhi Yang, Dawei Li, Yunxia Zhu, Xiangyu Zhu, Wentao Yu, Kaijie Yang, and Baoliang Chen Environmental Science & Technology 2024 58 (20), 8610-8630.
Unfortunately, the paper focuses on solar desalination, which of course is the natural way solar desalination works, apparently focusing on industrializing natural systems.
I have not had a chance to read the paper, but I'm aware of it. (Industrial solar turns me off; it's unacceptably problematic.)
I have been interested in this problem for quite some time, and discussed cleaner approaches to desalination - which I increasingly feel may become a requirement in the era of global heating - here: The Energy Required to Supply California's Water with Zero Discharge Supercritical Desalination.
To my way of thinking, it can be shown that isolated solidified sea salt is a form of stored energy, if one exploits ion selective membranes, which will control the rate at which salt is released back into the sea, and thus the risks of concentration if one accounts for diffusion rates. One can further mitigate the environmental cost if one thinks of where salts are returned to the sea.
It is however, a huge problem.
Thanks for the post.
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