Academic Publications

Academic Research Articles: Featured

2023

Featured: Atia, Adam A., Jeff Allen, Ethan Young, Ben Knueven, Timothy V. Bartholomew. “Cost Optimization of Low-Salt-Rejection Reverse Osmosis.” Desalination 551 (2023): e116407. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2023.116407.

Featured: Duan, Yanghua, Wenli Jiang, and David L. Sedlak. “Surface Processes Control the Fate of Reactive Oxidants Generated By Electrochemical Activation Of Hydrogen Peroxide On Stainless-Steel Electrodes.” Environmental Science & Technology 57, no. 47 (2023): 18680–18689. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c08404.

Featured: Qin, Ji, Eric Ziemann, Edo Bar-Zeev, Sharon E. Bone, Yuanhze Liang, Meagan S. Mauter, Moshe Herzberg, and Roy Bernstein. “Microporous Polyethersulfone Membranes Grafted with Zwitterionic Polymer Brushes Showing Microfiltration Permeance and Ultrafiltration Bacteriophage Removal.” ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 15, no. 14 (2023): 18343–18353. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.3c01495.

Featured: Wang, Ruoyu, Ravindra Duddu, and Shihong Lin. “Extended Donnan-Manning Theory for Selective Ion Partition and Transport in Ion Exchange Membrane.” Journal of Membrane Science 681 (2023): e121782. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2023.121782.

Featured: Yang, Zilan, Jiaxiang Zhao, Emil G. Sullivan, and Shiqiang Zou. “Cost-Effective Cathode Materials to Electrochemically Tackle Aquatic Selenite Pollution.”ACS ES&T Engineering 3, no. 4 (2023): 458–466. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestengg.2c00323.

Featured: Zilberman, David, Alice Huang, Lanie Goldberg, and Thomas Reardon. “The Evolution of Symbiotic Innovation, Water, and Agricultural Supply Chains.” Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy 45, no. 3 (2023): 1592–1603. https://doi.org/10.1002/aepp.13342.

Academic Research Articles: Special Issues

2024

Special Issue: Thiloka, Edirisooriya M. N., Huiyano Wang, Sankha Banerjee, Karl Longley, William Wright, Walter Mizuno, and Pei Xu. “Economic Feasibility of Developing Alternative Water Supplies for Agricultural Irrigation.” Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering 43 (2024): e100987. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coche.2023.100987.

2023

Special Issue: Alhussaini, Mohammed A., Zachary M. Binger, Bianca M. Souza-Chaves, Oluwamayowa O. Amusat, Jangho Park, Timothy V. Bartholomew, Dan Gunter, and Andrea Achilli. “Analysis of Backwash Settings to Maximize Net Water Production in an Engineering-Scale Ultrafiltration System for Water Reuse.” Journal of Water Process Engineering 53 (2023): e103761. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jwpe.2023.103761.

Special Issue: Deemer, Eva M., Pei Xu , Rafael Verduzco, and William Shane Walker. “Challenges and Opportunities for Electro-Driven Desalination Processes in Sustainable Applications.” Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering 42 (2023): e 100972. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coche.2023.100972.

Special Issue: Einkauf, Jeffrey D., Neil J. Williams, Charles A. Seipp, and Radu Custelcean. “Near Quantitative Removal of Selenate and Sulfate Anions from Wastewaters by Cocrystallization with Chelating Hydrogen-Bonding Guanidinium Ligands.” JACS Au 3 no 3 (2023): 879–888. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacsau.2c00673.

Special Issue: Ferguson, Noah, Maqsud R. Chowdhury, Colin Fitzsimonds, Nicole Beauregard, Mayur Ostwal, Marianne Pemberton, Edward Wazer, Caylin Cyr, Ranjan Srivastava, and Jeffrey R. McCutcheon. “Self-Regulating Behavior of Hybrid Membrane Systems as Demonstrated in an Element-Scale Forward Osmosis-Reverse Osmosis Hybrid System." Preprint, posted Aug. 2, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4528921.

Special Issue: Gupta, Srishti, Adam Chismar, and Christopher Muhich. “Understanding the Effect of Single Atom Cationic Defect Sites in an Al2O3 (012) Surface on Altering Selenate and Sulfate Adsorption: An Ab Initio Study.” The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 127, no, 14 (2023): 6925–6937. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.3c00098.

Special Issue: He, Jinlong, Jeffrey R. McCutcheon, and Ying Li. “Effect of Different Manufacturing Methods on Polyamide Reverse-Osmosis Membranes for Desalination: Insights from Molecular Dynamics Simulations.” Desalination 547 (2023): 116204. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2022.116204.

Special Issue: He, Jinlong, Tom Arbaugh, Danh Nguyen, Weikang Xian, Eric M.V. Hoek, Jeffrey R. McCutcheon, and Ying Li. “Molecular Mechanisms of Thickness-Dependent Water Desalination in Polyamide Reverse-Osmosis Membranes.” Journal of Membrane Science 674 (2023): e121498. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2023.121498.

Special Issue: Kuras, Aurora, Tzahi Y. Cath, and Amanda S. Hering. “Functional Data Analysis Approach for Detecting Faults in Cyclic Water and Wastewater Treatment Processes.” ACS ES&T Water. Published online April 10, 2023. https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsestwater.3c00061.

Special Issue: Liang, Yuanzhe, Alexander V. Dudchenko, Meagan S. Mauter. “Novel Method for Accurately Estimating Membrane Transport Properties and Mass Transfer Coefficients in Reverse Osmosis.”Journal of Membrane Science 679 (2023): e121686. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2023.121686.

Liu, Tanya, and Meagan S. Mauter. “Comparative Infrared Microscopy for Measuring Membrane Thermal Conductivity and Validating Theoretical Heat Transport Models.” ACS ES&T Engineering 3, no. 6 (2023): 874–882. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestengg.2c00436.

Special Issue: Patel, Sohum K., Weiyi Pan, Yong-Uk Shin, Jovan Kamcev, and Menachem Elimelech. “Electrosorption Integrated with Bipolar Membrane Water Dissociation: A Coupled Approach to Chemical-free Boron Removal.” Environmental Science & Technology 57, no. 11 (2023), 4578–4590. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.3c00058.

Special Issue: Penteado de Almeida, Juliano, Zachary Stoll, and Pei Xu. “An Alternating, Current-Induced Electromagnetic Field for Membrane Fouling and Scaling Control during Desalination of Secondary Effluent from Municipal Wastewater.” Water 15, no. 12 (2023): e2234. https://doi.org/10.3390/w15122234.

Special Issue: Qian, Xin, Arezou Anvari, Eric M.V. Hoek, and Jeffrey R .McCutcheon. “Advancements in Conventional and 3D Printed Feed Spacers in Membrane Modules.” Desalination 556 (2023): e116518. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2023.116518.

Special Issue: Seth, Kushal, Margaret Busse, Gyoung Jang, Sanket Joag, Kyungho Kim, Thomas Pankratz, Divyansh Sahu, Ramesh Sharma, Jennifer Stokes-Draut, Costas Tsouris, et al. “Electrocoagulation of High-Salinity Produced Water: Lessons Learned from Its Early Applications in Unconventional Reservoir Plays.” Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering 42 (2023): e100952. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coche.2023.100952.

Special Issue: Spearing, Lauryn A., Miriam Tariq, Haniye Safarpour, Thomas Abia, Matt Mallory, Jeff Guild, Lynn E. Katz, and Kasey M. Faust. “Moving Beyond Techno-Economic Considerations: Incorporating Organizational Constraints into Fit-for-Use Technologies.” Current Opinion in Chemical Engineering 42 (2023): e 100950. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coche.2023.100950.

Special Issue: Tao, Lei, Jinlong He, Tom Arbaugh, Jeffrey R. McCutcheon, and Ying Li. “Machine Learning Prediction on the Fractional Free Volume of Polymer Membranes.” Journal of Membrane Science 665 (2023): e121131. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2022.121131.

Special Issue: Wajeha Tauqir, Adaeze C. Maduako, Xi Yang, George M. Bollas. “Modeling Aqueous Multi-Electrolyte Systems for the Simulation and Optimization of Concentrated Brine Processes.”Computer Aided Chemical Engineering, 52 (2023): 733–738. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-443-15274-0.50117-7.

Special Issue: Wang, Xingyu, Ishrat Rashid, Zhiyuan Zhao, Mayowa Oladele, Wenjun Xiang, Yuankai Huang, Edward Wazer, Jeffery McCutcheon, George Bollas, Jason Contreras, et al. “Machine Learning Algorithm Integrated with Real-Time In Situ Sensors and Physiochemical Principle-Driven Soft Sensors toward an Anaerobic Digestion-Data Fusion Framework.” ACS ES&T Water (2023): e3c00236. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestwater.3c00236.

Special Issue: Yao, Yinuo, Siqin Yu, and Ilenia Battiato. “Understanding Flow Dynamics in Membrane Distillation: Effects of Reactor Design on Polarization.”Separation and Purification Technology 314 (2023): e123664. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seppur.2023.123664.

Special Issue: Zhang, Xudong, Yiqun Yao, Thomas Horseman, Ruoyu Wang, Yiming Yin, Sizhuo Zhang, TiezhengTong, and Shihong Lin. “Electrodialytic Crystallization to Enable Zero Liquid Discharge.” Nature Water 1 (2023): 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-023-00095-4.

2022

Special Issue: Das, Sabyasachi, Margaret G. O'Connell, Hui Xu, Roy Bernstein, Jae-Hong Kim, Kirti Sankhala, Tamar Segal-Peretz, Rahul Shevate, Wei Zhang, Xuechen Zhou, et al. “Assessing Advances in Anti-Fouling Membranes to Improve Process Economics and Sustainability of Water Treatment.” ACS ES&T Engineering 2, 11 (2022): 2159–2173. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestengg.2c00184.

Special Issue: Etemad Zadeh, Ali, Khaled Touati, Catherine N. Mulligan, Jeffrey R. McCutcheon, and Saifur Rahaman. “Closed-Loop Pressure Retarded Osmosis Draw Solutions and Their Regeneration Processes: A Review.” Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews 159 (2022): e112191. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rser.2022.112191.

Special Issue: Horseman, Thomas, and Shihong Lin. “Exceptional Mineral Scaling Resistance from the Surface Gas Layer: Impacts of Surface Wetting Properties and the Gas Layer Charging Mechanism.” ACS Environmental Au 2, no. 5 (2022): 418–427. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsenvironau.2c00011.

Special Issue: Jang, G. G., Y. Zhang, J. K. Keum, Y. Z. Bootwala, M. C. Hatzell, D. Jassby, and C. Tsouris. “Neutron Tomography of Porous Aluminum Electrodes Used in Electrocoagulation of Groundwater.” Frontiers in Chemical Engineering 4 (2022): e1046627. https://doi.org/10.3389/fceng.2022.1046627.

Liu, Yang, and Meagan S. Mauter. “High-Resolution Carbon Accounting Framework for Urban Water Supply Systems.” Environmental Science & Technology 56, no. 19 (2022): 13920–13930. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c04127.

Special Issue: Liu, Yu-Hsuan, Yousuf Z. Bootwala, Gyoung Gug Jang, Jong K. Keum, Chia Miang Khor, Eric M. V. Hoek, David Jassby, Costas Tsouris, Jom Mothersbaugh, and Marta C. Hatzell. “Electroprecipitation Mechanism Enabling Silica and Hardness Removal Through Aluminum-Based Electrocoagulation.” ACS ES&T Engineering 2, no. 7 (2022): 1200–1210. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestengg.1c00433.

Special Issue: Mauter, Meagan S., Dionysios D. Dionysiou, and Jae-Hong Kim. “Technology Baselines and Innovation Priorities for Securing Water Supply.” In Desalination and Water Reuse Technologies for a Circular Economy: National Alliance for Water Innovation Special Issue. ACS ES&T Engineering 2, no. 3 (2022): 271–272. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestengg.2c00014.

Special Issue: Ostwal, Mayur, Edward Wazer, Marianne Pemberton, and Jeffrey R. McCutcheon. “Scaling Electrospray Based Additive Manufacturing of Polyamide Membranes.” Journal of Membrane Science Letters 2, no. 2 (2022): e100035. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memlet.2022.100035.

Special Issue: Plata, Sophia L., Connie L. Devenport, Ariel Miara, Kurban A. Sitterley, Anna Evans, Michael Talmadge, Kurt M. Van Allsburg, Parthiv Kurup, Jordan Cox, Samuel Kerbe, et al. “Zero Liquid Discharge and Water Reuse in Recirculating Cooling Towers at Power Facilities: Review and Case Study Analysis.” ACS ES&T Engineering 2, no. 3 (2022): 508–525. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestengg.1c00377.

Special Issue: Ramanuj, Vimal, Ramanan Sankaran, Luka Malenica, Kyle Cole, Marcus Day, and Jeffrey McCutcheon. “Macrovoid Resolved Simulations of Transport through HPRO Relevant Membrane Geometries.” Journal of Membrane Science 662 (2022): e120958. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2022.120958.

Special Issue: Sitaraman, Hariswaran, and Ilenia Battiato. “Impact of Large-Scale Effects on Mass Transfer and Concentration Polarization in Reverse Osmosis Membrane Systems.” Separation and Purification Technology 303 (2022): 122121. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seppur.2022.122121.

Special Issue: Tran, Richard, Duo Wang, Ryan Kingsbury, Aini Palizhati, Kristin Aslaug Persson, Anubhav Jain, and Zahary W. Ulissi. “Screening of Metallic Electrocatalysts for Water Purification with Machine Learning.” The Journal of Chemical Physics 157, no. 7 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0092948.

Special Issue: Wilson, Aaron D., Hyeonsong Lee, and Caleb Stetson. “Local Stress within a Granular Molecular Solvent Matrix, a Mechanism for Individual Ion Hydration.” Journal of Molecular Liquids 361 (2022): e119544. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molliq.2022.119544.

2021

Special Issue: Gingerich, Daniel B., Jiachen Liu, and Meagan S. Mauter. “Carbon Benefits of Drinking Water Treatment Electrification.”ACS ES&T Engineering 2, no. 3 (2021): 367–376. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestengg.1c00165.

Special Issue: Hejase, Charifa A., Katelin A. Weitzel, Sean C. Stokes, Brandi M. Grauberger, Robert B. Young, Miguel S. Arias-Paic, Minghao Kong, Soryong Chae, Todd M. Bandhauer, Tiezheng Tong, et al. “Opportunities for Treatment and Reuse of Agricultural Drainage in the United States.” ACS ES&T Engineering 2, no. 3 (2021): 292–305. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestengg.1c00277.

Special Issue: Liu, Yang, Alison Sim, and Meagan S. Mauter. “Energy-Optimal Siting of Decentralized Water Recycling Systems.” Environmental Science & Technology 55, no. 22 (2021): 15343–15350. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.1c04708.

Special Issue: Podar, Mircea, Amanda L May, Weiliang Bai, Kellie Peyton, Dawn M Klingeman, Cynthia M Swift, Devan AF Linson, Jacques Mathieu, Daniel Siljeström, Ignacio Beneyto, et al. “Microbial Diversity Analysis of Two Full-Scale Seawater Desalination Treatment Trains Provides Insights into Detrimental Biofilm Formation.” Journal of Membrane Science Letters 1, no. 1 (2021): e100001. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memlet.2021.100001.

Special Issue: Quon, Hunter, Joshua Sperling, Katie Coughline, David Greene, Ariel Miara, Sertac Akar, Michael Talmadge, Jennifer R Stokes-Draut, Jordan Macknick, and Sunny Jiang. “Pipe Parity Analysis of Seawater Desalination in the United States: Exploring Costs, Energy, and Reliability via Case Studies and Scenarios of Emerging Technology.” ACS ES&T Engineering 2, no. 3 (2021): 434–445. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestengg.1c00270.

Academic Research Articles

2024

Arezou Anvari, Jishan Wu, Arian Edalat, Nikolay Voutchkov, Ahmed Al-Ahmoudi, Subir Bhattacharjee, Eric M.V. Hoek. “What will it take to get to 250,000 ppm brine concentration via ultra-high pressure reverse osmosis? And is it worth it?” Desalination 580 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2024.117565.

Li, Mingheng and Li, Joseph. “Novel Variable Configuration Design for Ultrahigh Recovery Reverse Osmosis Desalination of Brackish Water” Ind. Eng. Chem. Res. 63, no. 13 (2024): 5813-5822.. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.iecr.3c04406.

Wilson, Aaron D., Zi Hao Foo, Ashini S. Jayasinghe, Caleb Stetson, Hyeonseok Lee, Harry W. Rollins, Akshay Deshmukh, and John H. Lienhard. “Modeling Henry's Law and Phase Separations of Water–Nacl–Organic Mixtures with Solvation and Ion-Pairing.” Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 26 (2024): 749–759. https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2024/cp/d3cp02003g.

Zaniolo, Marta. Sarah Fletcher, and Meagan Mauter. “FIND: A Synthetic Weather Generator to Control Drought Frequency, Intensity, and Duration.” Environmental Modelling & Software 172 (January 2024): e105927. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2023.105927.

Zhao, Jiaziang, Zilan Yang, Qingshi Wang, Brandon Alderman, and Shiqiang Zou. “Electrooxidation of Aminomethyl Phosphonic Acid (Ampa) Using a Boron Doped Diamond Anode.” Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering 12, no. 1 (2024): e111669. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jece.2023.111669.

2023

Letter: Gabitto, Jorge F., and Costas Tsouris. “A Review of Transport Models in Charged Porous Electrodes.” Frontiers in Chemical Engineering 4 ( 2023): e1051594. https://doi.org/10.3389/fceng.2022.1051594.

Letter: He, Jinlong, Tom Arbaugh, Danh Nguyen, Weikang Xian, Eric MV Hoek, Jeffrey R. McCutcheon, and Ying Li. “Molecular Mechanisms of Thickness-Dependent Water Desalination in Polyamide Reverse-Osmosis Membranes.” Journal of Membrane Science 674 (2023): e121498. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2023.121498.

He, Jinlong, Tianle Yue, Jeffrey R. McCutcheon, and Ying Li. “Recent Developments in 3d-Printed Membranes for Water Desalination.” Journal of Physics: Energy 6 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7655/ad0d01.

Johnston, Jacob. Sarah M. Dischinger, Mostafa Nassr, Ji Yeon Lee, Pedram Bigdelou, Benny D. Freeman, Kristofer L. Gleason, Denis Martinand, Daniel J. Miller, Sergi Molins, et al. “A Reduced-Order Model of Concentration Polarization in Reverse Osmosis Systems with Feed Spacers.” Journal of Membrane Science 675 (2023): e121508. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2023.121508.

Kim, Kwiyong, Alexandra Zagalskaya, Jing Lian Ng, Jaeyoung Hong, Vitaly Alexandrov, Tuan Ahn Pham, and Xiao Su. “Coupling Nitrate Capture with Ammonia Production through Bifunctional Redox-Electrodes.” Nature Communications 14, no. 1 (2023): 823. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36318-1.

Klanderman, Molly C. Junho Lee, Kris Villez, Tzahi Y. Cath, and Amanda S. Hering. “Adaptive Online Multivariate Signal Extraction with Locally Weighted Robust Polynomial Regression.” Data Science in Science 2, no. 1 (2023): e2200856. https://doi.org/10.1080/26941899.2023.2200856.

McCutcheon, Jeffrey R., and Meagan S. Mauter. “Fixing the Desalination Membrane Pipeline.” Science 380, no. 6642 (2023): 242–244. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ade531.

Quon, Hunter, and Sunny Jiang. “Decision Making for Implementing Non-Traditional Water Sources: A Review of Challenges and Potential Solutions. npj Clean Water 6, no. 56 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41545-023-00273-7.

Villalobos, Luis. F., Kevin E. Pataroque, Weiyi Pan, Tianchi Cao, Masashi Kaneda, Camille Violet, Cody L. Ritt, Eric M. V. Hoek, and Menachem Elimelech. “Orientation Matters: Measuring the Correct Surface of Polyamide Membranes with Quartz Crystal Microbalance.” Journal of Membrane Science Letters 3, no. 2 (2023): e100048. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memlet.2023.100048.

Wang, Li. Jinlong He, Mohammad Heiranian, Hanqing Fan, Lianfa Song, Ying Li, and Menachem Elimelech. “Water Transport in Reverse Osmosis Membranes is Governed by Pore Flow, Not a Solution-Diffusion Mechanism.” Science Advances 9, no. 15 (2023): eadf8488. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adf8488.

Zaniolo, Marta, Sarah Fletcher, and Meagan S. Mauter. “Multi-Scale Planning Model for Robust Urban Drought Response.” Environmental Research Letters 18 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/acceb5.

2022

Cabrera, Sandra M., Louis Winnubst, Hannes Richter, Igolf Voigt, Jeffrey McCutcheon, and Arian Nijmeijer. “Performance Evaluation of an Industrial Ceramic Nanofiltration Unit for Wastewater Treatment in Oil Production.” Water Research 220, no. 15 (2022): e118593. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.watres.2022.118593.

Review: Ewell, Elliott , Hailey Haglid, Emily Truszkowski, Clare Walicki, Patrick De Meulder, Matthew De Meulder, Theodore Stephens, Xun Zhang, Carina Trama, Ashli Hamilton, et al. “Invention as a Complement to High School Chemistry.” Journal of Chemical Education 99, no. 5 (2022): 2012–2019. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.2c00135.

Foo, Zi H., Caleb Stetson, Elizabeth Dach, A Deshmukh, Hyeonseok Lee, Akanksha K. Menon, Ravi Prasher, Ngai Yin Yip, John H. Lienhard, and Aaron D. Wilson. “Solvent-Driven Aqueous Separations for Hypersaline Brine Concentration and Resource Recovery.” Trends in Chemistry 4, no. 12 (2022): 1078–1093. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trechm.2022.09.004.

He, Jinlong, Jason Yang, Jeffrey R. McCutcheon, and Ying Li. “Molecular Insights into the Structure-Property Relationships of 3D Printed Polyamide Reverse-Osmosis Membrane for Desalination.” Journal of Membrane Science 658 (2022) e120731. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2022.120731.

Review: Liu, Tanya, and Meagan S. Mauter. “Heat Transfer Innovations and Their Application in Thermal Desalination Processes.” Joule 6 (2022): 1199–1229. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2022.05.004.

Miller, Kaleisha D., Matthew J. Bentley, Joseph N. Ryan, Karl G. Linden, Caleb Larison, Benjamin A. Kienzle, Lynn E. Katz, Alana M. Wilson, Jordan T. Cox, Parthiv Kurup, et al. “Mine Water Use, Treatment, and Reuse in the United States: A Look at Current Industry Practices and Select Case Studies.” ACS ES&T Engineering 2, no. 3 (2021): 391–408. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestengg.1c00244.

Qian, Xin, Mayur Ostwal, Ayse Asatekin, Geoffrey M. Geise, Zachary P. Smith, William A. Phillip, Ryan P. Lively, and Jeffrey R. McCutcheon. “A Critical Review and Commentary on Recent Progress of Additive Manufacturing and Its Impact on Membrane Technology.” Journal of Membrane Science 645. 2022: e120041. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2021.120041.

Winter, Lea R., Nathanial J. Cooper, Boreum Lee, Sohum K. Patel, Li Wang, and Menachem Elimelech. “Mining Nontraditional Water Sources for a Distributed Hydrogen Economy.” Environmental Science & Technology 56, no. 15 (2022): 10577–10585. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c02439.

Xu, Xuesong, J. Erik Ness, Ariel Miara, Kurban A. Sitterley, Michael Talmadge, Barbara O’Neill, Katie Coughlin, Sertac Akar, E. M. N. Thiloka Edirisooriya, Parthiv Kurup, et al. “Analysis of Brackish Water Desalination for Municipal Uses: Case Studies on Challenges and Opportunities.” ACS ES&T Engineering 2, no. 3 (2022): 306–322. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestengg.1c00326.

Yang, J. Lei Tao, Jinlong He, Jeffrey R. McCutcheon, and Ying Li. “Machine Learning Enables Interpretable Discovery of Innovative Polymers for Gas Separation Membranes.” Science Advances 8, no. 29 (2022): eabn9545. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abn9545.

Yin, Yiming, Tianshu Li, Kuichang Zuo, Xitong Liu, Shihong Lin, Yiqun Yao, and Tiezheng Tong. “Which Surface Is More Scaling Resistant? A Closer Look at Nucleation Theories for Heterogeneous Gypsum Nucleation in Aqueous Solutions.” Environmental Science & Technology 56, no. 22 (2022): 16315–16324. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.est.2c06560.

2021

Bell, Erin M., Sylvain De Guise, Jeffrey R. McCutcheon, Yu Lei, Milton Levin, Baikun Li, James F. Rusling, David A. Lawrence. Jennifer M. Cavallari, Caitlin O’Connell, et al. “Exposure, Health Effects, Sensing, and Remediation of the Emerging PFAS Contaminants–Scientific Challenges and Potential Research Directions.” Science of the Total Environment 780 (2021): e146399. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.146399.

Cooper, Carolyn M., James McCall, Sean C. Stokes, Cameron McKay, Matthew J. Bentley, James S. Rosenblum, Tamzin A. Blewett, Zhe Huang, Ariel Miara, Michael Talmadge, et al. “Oil and Gas Produced Water Reuse: Opportunities, Treatment Needs, and Challenges.” ACS ES&T Engineering 2, no. 3 (2021): 347–366. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestengg.1c00248.

Dudchenko, Alexander V., Timothy V Bartholomew, Meagan S Mauter, 'Cost optimization of multi-stage gap membrane distillation' Journal of Membrane Science (2021) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2021.119228

Dudchenko, Alexander V., Timothy V. Bartholomew, and Meagan S Mauter. “High-Impact Innovations for High-Salinity Membrane Desalination.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118, no. 37 (2021), e2022196118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2022196118.

Giammar, Daniel E., David M. Greene, Anushka Mishra, Nalini Rao, Joshua B. Sperling, Michael Talmadge, Ariel Miara, Kurban A. Sitterley, Alana Wilson, Sertac Akar, et al. “Cost and Energy Metrics for Municipal Water Reuse.” ACS ES&T Engineering 2, no. 3 (2021): 489–507. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestengg.1c00351.

Ling, Bowen, Peng Xie, David Ladner, and Ilenia Battiato. “Dynamic Modeling of Fouling in Reverse Osmosis Membranes.” Membranes 11, no. 5 (2021): 349. https://doi.org/10.3390/membranes11050349.

Liu, Yang, and Meagan S. Mauter. “Marginal Energy Intensity of Water Supply.”
Energy & Environmental Science 14, no. 8 (2021): 4533–4540. https://doi.org/10.1039/D1EE00925G.

Preview: McCutcheon, Jeffrey R. “Unraveling the Mysteries of the Thin Film Composite Reverse Osmosis Membrane.” Joule 5, no. 3 (2021): 528–530. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joule.2021.03.004.

Meese, Aidan F., David J Kim, Xuanhao Wu, Linh Le, Cade Napier, Mark T. Hernandez, Nicollette Laroco, Karl G. Linden, Jordan Cox, Parthiv Kurup, et al. “Opportunities and Challenges for Industrial Water Treatment and Reuse.” ACS ES&T Engineering 2 no. 3 (2021): 465–488. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestengg.1c00282.

Perspective: Quay, Amanda N., Peter S. Fiske, and Meagan S. Mauter. “Recommendations for Advancing Fair and Open Data Standards in the Water Treatment Community.”ACS ES&T Engineering 2, no. 3 (2021): 337–346. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsestengg.1c00245.

Sim, Alison, and Meagan S. Mauter. “Cost and Energy Intensity of US Potable Water Reuse Systems.” Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology 4 (2021): 748–761. https://doi.org/10.1039/D1EW00017A.

Wilson, Aaron D., Hyeonseok Lee, and Caleb Stetson. “Mass Action Model of Solution Activity via Speciation by Solvation and Ion Pairing Equilibria.” Communications Chemistry 4, no. 1 (2021): 163. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42004-021-00599-8.

Yang, Jason, Lei Tao, Jinlong He, Jeffrey McCutcheon, and Ying Li. “Discovery of Innovative Polymers for Next-Generation Gas-Separation Membranes using Interpretable Machine Learning.” Preprint, submitted December 26, 2021. https://chemrxiv.org/engage/chemrxiv/article-details/61c59c9d9efae73b4f255c59.

2020

Mauter, Meagan S., and Peter S. Fiske. “Desalination for a Circular Water Economy.” Energy & Environmental Science 13, no. 10( 2020): 3180–3184. https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2020/ee/d0ee01653e/unauth.

Yang, Jason, Zhiqiang Shen, Jinlong He, and Ying Li. “Efficient Separation of Small Organic Contaminants in Water Using Functionalized Nanoporous Graphene Membranes: Insights from Molecular Dynamics Simulations Journal of Membrane Science 630 (2020): e119331. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.memsci.2021.119331.

Chapters or other part of an edited book

Chowdhury, Dhrubajit, Alexander Melin, and Kris Villez. “Method for Automatic Correction of Offset Drift in Online Sensors.” In Celebrating Passion for Water, Science and Technology: Festschrift in Honour of Gustaf Olsson, ed. Wolfgang Rauch and Pernille Ingildsen. (London: IWA Publishing, 2022), https://iwaponline.com/ebooks/book/859/chapter/3031776/Method-for-automatic-correction-of-offset-drift-in.

Reports

Borch, Thomas, Dionysios D. Dionysiou, Lynn Katz, Pei Xu, Richard Breckenridge, Kirk Ellison, Jessica Fox, Jordon Macknick, David Sedlak, and Jennifer Stokes-Draut. National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI) Agriculture Sector Technology Roadmap 2021. Golden, CO: National Renewable Energy Lab, 2021. https://doi.org/10.2172/1782447.

Cath, Tzahi, Shankar Chellam, Lyyn Katz, Richard Breckenridge, Carolyn Cooper, Kirk Ellison, Jordan Macknick, Cameron McKay, Kaleisha Miller, Jason Monnell, et al. NAWI Resource Extraction Technology Roadmap 2021. National Alliance for Water Innovation, DOE/GO-102021-5563, 2021. https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy21osti/79895.pdf.

Childress, Amy, Daniel Giammar, Sunny Jiang, Richard Breckenridge, Andrew Howell, Jordan Macknick, Sophia Plata, David Sedlak, and Jennifer Stokes-Draut. NAWI Power Sector Technology Roadmap. National Alliance for Water Innovation, DOE/GO-102021-5566, 2021. https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy21osti/79894.pdf.

Fairhart, Alex, David L. Sedlak, Meagan Mauter, Peter Fiske, and Paula Kehoe. Extreme Decentralized Water Treatment: Exploring the Future of Premise-Scale Water Treatment and Reuse. Stanford: Stanford University, 2023). https://waterinthewest.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/Extreme_Decentralized_Water_Treatment.pdf.

Giammar, Daniel, Sunny Jiang, Pei Xu, Richard Breckenridge, Thiloka Edirisooriya, Wenbin Jiang, Lu Lin, Jordan Macknick, Nalini Rao, David Sedlak, et al. National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI) Municipal Sector Technology Roadmap 2021. Golden, Colorado: National Renewable Energy Lab, 2021. https://doi.org/10.2172/1782448.

Gunter, Dan, Oluwamayowa Amusat, Timothy Bartholomew, and Markus Drouven. Santa Barbara Desalination Digital Twin Technical Report. Berkeley, CA: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, 2021 . https://doi.org/10.2172/1831427.

Sedlak, David, Meagan Mauter, Jordan Macknick, Jennifer Stokes-Draut, Peter Fiske, Deborah Agarwal, Thomas Borch, Richard Breckenridge, Tzahi Cath, Shankar Chellam, et al. National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI) Master Technology Roadmap. Golden, CO: National Renewable Energy Lab, 2021. https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1818076.

Tzahi, Cath, Shankar Chellam, Lynn Katz, Jaehong Kim, Richard Breckenridge, Jordan Macknick, Aidan Meese, Jason Monnell, Trenton Rogers, David Sedlak, et al. 2021. “National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI) Technology Roadmap: Industrial Sector.” DOE/GO-102021-5562. https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy21osti/79886.pdf.

Technical Papers and Briefs

Bryan, Scott. “Water Innovation and Ecological Transformation: Entrepreneurial Approaches to Advancing Sustainable Solutions.” Field Actions Science Reports. Special issue, Innovation for Ecological Transformation 25, no. 3 (2023): 68–71. https://journals.openedition.org/factsreports/7294.

Feeley, Thomas J. “Responding to the Water-Energy Nexus Challenge: NETL's Comprehensive, Integrated Research & Development (R&D) Program” Preprint from February 2020. https://doi.org/ 10.13140/RG.2.2.36384.33286.

Sitterley, Kurban A., and Alexander Dudchenko. “WaterTAP Technical Brief: Ion Exchange Model Demonstration and Optimization.” United States (2023). e2005544. https://doi.org/10.2172/2005544.

Turner, John, Matt Sieger Srikanth Allu, Muhsin Ameen, Santanu Chaudhuri, Jackie Chen, Yousu Chen, Flavio Dal Forno Chuahy, Charles Finney, Vyaas Gururajan, et al. 2023. “Computational Requirements in Clean Energy and Manufacturing: Summary Report of The Virtual Workshop Held on June 28-29, 2021.” United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1971039.

Presentations

Ajami, Newsha. “Water Management.” Panelist at California’s 5th Climate Change Assessment Roundtables of California Council on Science & Technology, September 21, 2022. https://ccst.us/register-californias-5th-climate-change-assessment-roundtables/

Bartholomew, T., D. C. Miller, and A. Lee. “A Comprehensive Process Model Library for Optimizing the Design and Operation of Water Desalination Systems.” Presentation at AGU Fall Meeting, December 2020. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020AGUFMH117…05B/abstract.

Bauer, Diana, William Gaieck, James McCall, Prakash Rao, and Mai Tran. Presentation at The Future of Water Infrastructure and Innovation Summit. May 1, 2021, United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1785307.

Chowdhury, Dhruba, Alexander Melin, and Kris Villez. “Automatic Drift Correction through Nonlinear Sensing.” Presentation at 2021 Resilience Week (RWS), Salt Lake City, Utah, October 2021. https://doi.org/10.1109/RWS52686.2021.9611798.

DeJesus, Arjun, Noah Ferguson, Srivatsa Bettahalli, Edward Wazer, and Jeffrey McCutcheon. “Employing Gutter Layers on Printed Gas Separation Membranes to Improve Membrane Permeance.”2023 AIChE Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida, November 6, 2023. https://aiche.confex.com/aiche/2023/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/67586.

Fiske, Peter S. “Advancing Desalination and Treatment of Non-Traditional Source Water: The First 3.5 Years of the National Alliance for Water Innovation (NAWI).” Presented at WEFTEC 2023, Chicago, Illinois, October 2023. https://doi.org/10.2175/193864718825158978.

McCutcheon, Jeffrey, Xin Qian, Mayur Ostwal, and Edward Wazer. “3D Printing of Thin Film Composite Membranes for Nanofiltration and Beyond.”2022 AIChE Annual Meeting, Phoenix, Arizona, November 17, 2022. https://aiche.confex.com/aiche/2022/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/649074.

Sreejith, N. A., Hariswaran Sitaraman, Marc Day, Yara Suleiman, Sina Shabazmohamadi, Wu Jishan, and Eric Hoek. 2023. “Simulation of Reverse Osmosis Membrane Compaction Using Material Point Method (MPM).” Presented at the National Alliance for Water Innovation Quarterly Review, 2023. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1987486.

Stokes-Draut, J.R., A. Miara, P. Kurup, M. Talmadge, and J. Weers. “The Challenge and Opportunity of Quantifying Pipe Parity to Enable the Circular Water Economy.” Presented at the AGU Fall Meeting 2020, December 2020. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020AGUFMH117…01S/abstract

Thesis or dissertation

2023

Gupta, S. “Advancing Material Discovery for Selective Adsorption and Catalysis of Toxic Oxo-Anion Pollutants in Aqueous Phase-An Ab-Initio Study.” PhD diss., Colorado State University, 2023.

Lugo Montes, Abdiel. “Development and Application of Technical, Economic, Energetic, and Environmental Process Modeling Framework for Evaluating Alternative Water Supplies for Desalination and Reuse.” Master’s thesis, New Mexico State University, 2023. (ProQuest ATT 30419723). Preview available at: https://www.proquest.com/openview/e8900e59dcb160545c2894c828e542c5/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y.

Quon, Hunter. “Evaluating Non-Traditional Water Supply Options Through Process-Based Modeling and Risk Assessment.” PhD diss., University of California, Irvine, 2023. (Proquest ATT 30525671). Preview available at: https://www.proquest.com/openview/79b38c8fbc66c276309376a6c9f7fc89/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y.

Stokes, Sean. “Soil Degradation and Water Scarcity: The Importance of Soil Organic Matter and Reuse of Non-Traditional Water Sources Within Agricultural Systems.” PhD diss., Colorado State University, 2023. (ProQuest AAT 30527143). https://www.proquest.com/openview/652417e59813a8ca4bbf17c092189102/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y.

Van Houghton, Brett D. “A Comprehensive Evaluation of Advanced Water Treatment Processes for the Treatment and Desalination of Produced Water.” PhD diss., Colorado School of Mines, 2023. (Proquest ATT 30636693). Preview available at: https://www.proquest.com/openview/cd321318ec5d998471024c0ea9f128c7/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y.

2022

Kuras, Aurora. “Functional Data Analysis for Detecting Faults in Water and Wastewater Treatment.” Master’s thesis, Colorado School of Mines, 2022. (Proquest ATT 29067625). Preview available at: https://www.proquest.com/openview/aff92deb7c590bb77f61e04e83ce8072/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y.

2021

Footracer, Cheyenne. “Performance Evaluation of Integrated Closed-Circuit RO/NF Desalination and Simulated Solar Energy for the Navajo Nation Brackish Groundwater.” Master’s thesis, Colorado School of Mines,– 2021. (Proquest ATT 28646620). Preview available at: https://www.proquest.com/openview/fdc9798e1ca27761cf10631d16b5b84f/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=18750&diss=y