Prante, Jeri L.; Ruskowitz, Jeffrey A.; Childress, Amy E.; … - In: Applied Energy 120 (2014) C, pp. 104-114
Although reverse osmosis (RO) is currently the most energy efficient desalination technology, it still requires a great deal of energy to create the high pressures necessary to desalinate seawater. An opposite process of RO, called pressure retarded osmosis (PRO), utilizes the salinity gradient...