MIT Engineers Turn Desalination Waste into Useful Chemicals Engineers from MIT have devised a new approach for turning desalination waste into useful chemicals. Modern desalination processes often leave behind a lot of highly concentrated brine, which is usually disposed of by dumping it back into the sea. This process requires costly pumping systems which have to be managed carefully to prevent damage to marine ecosystems. (LINK). MIT Engineers Turn Desalination Waste into Useful ChemicalsHIWI042019-02-19T12:11:07+01:00
MIT tech could let desalination plants use their own brine waste When salt is removed from seawater in desalination plants, the byproduct is â not surprisingly â a lot of highly-concentrated salty brine. Ordinarily, this is just dumped back into the sea, which can harm the environment. Thanks to a new treatment process, however, that brine could actually be used to desalinate more water. Developed by a research team at MIT, the proprietary system incorporates what are described as âwell-known and standard chemical processes.â These include a nano-filtration process to initially [âŠ] MIT tech could let desalination plants use their own brine wasteHIWI042019-02-16T05:43:30+01:00