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Carbon-Negative Desalination With High-Value Materials Recovery (Case No. 2024-008)

Summary: Researchers led by Dr. Eric Hoek have developed a carbon-negative method to desalinate brine and seawater and extract valuable materials from the source solution. Background: Increased global temperatures and extreme droughts are driving water shortages throughout the world. To address this, water recycling and desalination efforts have...

Published: 10/8/2024 | Inventor(s): Eric Hoek, Yongho Ju, Yoram Cohen, David Jassby

Keywords(s): brine, brine concentrate, carbon negative, carbon neutral, carbon sequestration, Desalination Wastewater, Energy & Water, freshwater generation, global carbon utilization, Half-Reaction Electrolysis Of Water Oxygen Evolution, Membrane bioreactor, membrane fouling, membrane scaling, Membranes, mineral harvesting, nanofiltration, renewable fuel, reverse osmosis (RO), Seawater, treatment efficacy, Wastewater treatment, Water Injection (Oil Production), Water Purification, Nanofiltration, Ultrafiltration, water recovery, Water treatment

Category(s): Chemical, Chemical > Chemical Processing & Manufacturing, Energy & Environment, Energy & Environment > Energy Generation, Energy & Environment > Water Monitoring & Treatment, Energy & Environment > Carbon Capture, Energy & Environment > Energy Efficiency, Materials, Materials > Nanotechnology, Materials > Water Treatment, Materials > Membranes

Self-Adaptive Control And Optimization Of Ultrafiltration

UC Case No. 2016-159SUMMARYUCLA researchers in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular engineering have developed a novel UF-RO system.BACKGROUNDUltrafiltration (UF) is the process of membrane-based removal of particles. It is used in a number of different industries such as food production, water treatment, desalination etc. In particular, in water...

Published: 7/19/2023 | Inventor(s): Yoram Cohen, Panagiotis Christofides, Anditya Rahardianto, Han Gu, Larry Xingming Gao

Keywords(s): Energy & Water

Category(s): Energy & Environment > Water Monitoring & Treatment, Materials > Water Treatment

System and Method for Flexible Low-Energy Membrane-Based Liquid Purification

UC Case No. 2016-871SUMMARYUCLA researchers in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering have developed a platform and method for membrane-based water purification and desalination that combines operational flexibility with energy efficiency, allowing effective treatment and desalination of raw feed water over a wider range of solute concentrations...

Published: 7/19/2023 | Inventor(s): Yoram Cohen, Anditya Rahardianto, Tae Kyung Lee

Keywords(s): Energy & Water

Category(s): Materials > Water Treatment

2011-138 Integrated Ultrafiltration and Reverse Osmosis Process and System

SUMMARYProfessor Cohen and colleagues have developed a compact and self-adaptive integrated water ultrafiltration and reverse osmosis (UF/RO) process and system. Designed to produce up to 18,000 gallons of drinking quality water per day with no intermediate tanks between UF and RO or for UF backwash, the system can be further expanded for even larger...

Published: 7/19/2023 | Inventor(s): Yoram Cohen, Panagiotis Christofides, Anditya Rahardianto, Alex Bartman, Aihua Zhu, Han Gu, Larry Xingming Gao

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Category(s): Materials > Functional Materials

2008-736 Fouling and Scaling Resistant Surface Nano-Structured Membranes

SUMMARYUCLA researchers have developed a novel class of membranes capable of resisting organic- and biofouling, as well as mineral salt scaling. These novel membranes have applications in water treatment and desalination, where biomaterial buildup and salt scaling of reverse osmosis membranes represent major impediments to high recovery rates.BACKGROUND"In...

Published: 7/19/2023 | Inventor(s): Yoram Cohen, Myung Man Kim, Gregory Lewis, Nancy Lin

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Category(s): Materials > Functional Materials

Graft Polymerization Induced by Atmospheric Pressure Plasma

Case 2006-661BACKGROUNDPolymer thin films have been used for surface engineering of inorganic and organic substrate surfaces to enhance substrate chemical selectivity and modify surface topology in such areas as biotechnology, tribology, chromatography, chemical sensors and separation technology. Thin polymer films which are applied via traditional...

Published: 7/19/2023 | Inventor(s): Yoram Cohen, Gregory Lewis

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Category(s): Materials > Functional Materials

Method and System for High Recovery Water Desalting

Case 2008-787Professor Cohen and colleagues have developed a method and system to continuously, sustainably, and inexpensively desalinate high salinity water of high mineral scaling propensity. The system is able to process waters as contaminated as industrial, agricultural, and mining wastewaters, with recovery levels reach in excess of 90-95%.

Published: 7/19/2023 | Inventor(s): Yoram Cohen, Anditya Rahardianto, Brian Mccool

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Category(s): Chemical > Chemical Processing & Manufacturing

2006-408 A Novel Ex-Situ Scale Observation Detector (EXSOD) for RO Process Monitoring

SUMMARY UCLA researchers at the Water Technology Research Center have developed a method and a device for real time monitoring of reverse osmosis membrane scaling for large scale water purification applications.BACKGROUNDThe major fraction of large scale water desalination processes use Reverse Osmosis (RO) membranes. RO membranes clog with mineral...

Published: 7/19/2023 | Inventor(s): Yoram Cohen, Michal Uchymiak

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Category(s): Energy & Environment > Water Monitoring & Treatment, Materials > Water Treatment, Chemical > Chemical Sensors