Howdy folks, about time for me to knock the cobwebs off of this blog. Here are a few things I’ve been working on lately that you may be interested in.… Read More »Some things I’m working on – Monday April 13th 2020
The large amounts of water required in the hydraulic fracturing of shales for oil or gas is a pressing concern. In hydraulic fracturing, water is sent down underground at high pressures… Read More »Taking out the Salt
In a recently published paper in the Journal of Membrane Science, Prof. Syed Zubair, Prof. Lienhard and I reported on how the cost of achieving high purity water with electrodialysis, an electrically driven… Read More »The benefits of hybridising electrodialysis with reverse osmosis
This blog is based upon “The cost effectiveness of electrodialysis for diverse salinity applications” by Ronan K. McGovern, Syed M. Zubair and John H. Lienhard, published in Desalination. For researchers… Read More »Desalination: Is it better to remove the water or the salt?
by Ronan K. McGovern This decade may be remembered for a debate between two similarly named desalination technologies, perhaps to be known as the “reverse osmosis vs forward osmosis (RO vs FO) debacle”.… Read More »Perspective: A new future for desalination?
Next Wednesday, April 23rd 2014, I will present the research I have conducted over the past two and a half years. This presentation, the details of which follow, is open to… Read More »Doctoral Defense: Future Desalination Processes and Applications