The membranes could help desalination plants minimize or eliminate brine waste produced as a byproduct of turning seawater into drinking water. Today, liquid brine waste is stored in ponds until the ...

Innovative membranes from the University of Michigan enhance desalination processes, reducing brine waste and energy ...

Instead of digging up rocks and painstakingly isolating the material of interest, brine mining consists of injecting water down into salt deposits through deep boreholes. The water dissolves the ...

Lithium resources from brine deposits are attractive when the demand for lithium is expected to increase by nearly 500% ...