Magnesium recovery from seawater desalination brines: a technical review

Danilo Fontana (), Federica Forte, Massimiliana Pietrantonio, Stefano Pucciarmati and Caterina Marcoaldi
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Danilo Fontana: ENEA, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development
Federica Forte: ENEA, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development
Massimiliana Pietrantonio: ENEA, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development
Stefano Pucciarmati: ENEA, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development
Caterina Marcoaldi: ENEA, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development

Environment, Development and Sustainability: A Multidisciplinary Approach to the Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development, 2023, vol. 25, issue 12, No 4, 13733-13754

Abstract: Abstract Existing desalination technologies produce large amount of waste brines with higher salinity concentration than feed seawater, the disposal of which pose serious environmental problems. At the same time, waste brines represent a valuable source of strategic materials—such as magnesium—and therefore their valorization offers the opportunity to overtake both the environmental and the economic issues. Current needs are to identify gaps and challenges to recover secondary magnesium in order to bring recovery technologies closer to the market for potential commercial applications. In this technical review, the available methods for magnesium recovery from seawater desalination brines are described and compared in details, to provide the readers with a wide overview to better address their research efforts towards resources valorization, in accordance with the circular economy principles. Graphical abstract

Keywords: Magnesium; Resource recovery; Brines; Desalination (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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