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Membrane Desalination in Shale Gas Industry: Applications and Perspectives (2019)
Book Chapter
Onishi, V. C., Reyes-Labarta, J. A., & Caballero, J. A. (2019). Membrane Desalination in Shale Gas Industry: Applications and Perspectives. In A. Basile, E. Curcio, & Inamuddin (Eds.), Current Trends and Future Developments on (Bio-) Membranes (243-267).

Shale gas has drawn increasing investments as an unconventional primary resource to renovate the global energy market. Over the last decade, factors linked to supply reliability and the recent developments in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fractur... Read More about Membrane Desalination in Shale Gas Industry: Applications and Perspectives.

Desalination of shale gas wastewater: Thermal and membrane applications for zero-liquid discharge (2018)
Book Chapter
Onishi, V. C., Fraga, E. S., Reyes-Labarta, J. A., & Caballero, J. A. (2018). Desalination of shale gas wastewater: Thermal and membrane applications for zero-liquid discharge. In V. Gnaneswar Gude (Ed.), Emerging Technologies for Sustainable Desalination

Natural gas exploration from unconventional shale formations, known as “shale gas,” has recently arisen as an appealing energy supply to meet the increasing worldwide demand. During the last decade, development of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fr... Read More about Desalination of shale gas wastewater: Thermal and membrane applications for zero-liquid discharge.

Multi-Objective Optimization of Renewable Energy-Driven Desalination Systems (2017)
Book Chapter
Onishi, V. C., Ruiz-Femenia, R., Salcedo-Díaz, R., Carrero-Parreño, A., Reyes-Labarta, J. A., & Caballero, J. A. (2017). Multi-Objective Optimization of Renewable Energy-Driven Desalination Systems. In A. Espuña, M. Graells, & L. Puigjaner (Eds.), 27th

Environmental impacts related to increasing greenhouse gas emissions and depletion of fossil-fuel reserves and water resources are major global concerns. In this work, we introduce a new multi-objective optimization model for simultaneous synthesis o... Read More about Multi-Objective Optimization of Renewable Energy-Driven Desalination Systems.

Optimal Shale Gas Flowback Water Desalination under Correlated Data Uncertainty (2017)
Book Chapter
Onishi, V. C., Ruiz-Femenia, R., Salcedo-Díaz, R., Carrero-Parreño, A., Reyes-Labarta, J. A., & Caballero, J. A. (2017). Optimal Shale Gas Flowback Water Desalination under Correlated Data Uncertainty. In A. Espuña, M. Graells, & L. Puigjaner (Eds.), 2

Optimal flowback water desalination is critical to improve overall efficiency and sustainability of shale gas production. Nonetheless, great uncertainty in well data from shale plays strongly hinders the design task. In this work, we introduce a new... Read More about Optimal Shale Gas Flowback Water Desalination under Correlated Data Uncertainty.

Multistage Membrane Distillation for the Treatment of Shale Gas Flowback Water: Multi-Objective Optimization under Uncertainty (2017)
Book Chapter
Carrero-Parreño, A., Onishi, V. C., Ruiz-Femenia, R., Salcedo-Díaz, R., Caballero, J. A., & Reyes-Labarta, J. A. (2017). Multistage Membrane Distillation for the Treatment of Shale Gas Flowback Water: Multi-Objective Optimization under Uncertainty. In A

In this work, we analyze the effect of shale gas well data uncertainty on the multi-objective optimization of a multistage direct contact membrane distillation (DCMD) model. The uncertain parameters, flowrate and salt concentration of the flowback wa... Read More about Multistage Membrane Distillation for the Treatment of Shale Gas Flowback Water: Multi-Objective Optimization under Uncertainty.

Combining Forward and Reverse Osmosis for Shale Gas Wastewater Treatment to Minimize Cost and Freshwater Consumption (2017)
Book Chapter
Salcedo-Díaz, R., Ruiz-Femenia, R., Carrero-Parreño, A., Onishi, V. C., Reyes-Labarta, J. A., & Caballero, J. A. (2017). Combining Forward and Reverse Osmosis for Shale Gas Wastewater Treatment to Minimize Cost and Freshwater Consumption. In A. Espuña,

One of the challenges for the future of the shale gas production industry is the water management due to the large demand of water for wells drilling and fracturing and the high volumes of liquid effluent produced. On-site treatment is a convenient o... Read More about Combining Forward and Reverse Osmosis for Shale Gas Wastewater Treatment to Minimize Cost and Freshwater Consumption.

Metal Bioaccumulation by Plants in Roadside Soils: Perspectives for Bioindication and Phytoremediation (2017)
Book Chapter
Novo, L. A. B., Onishi, V. C., Bernardino, C. A. R., & da Silva, E. F. (2017). Metal Bioaccumulation by Plants in Roadside Soils: Perspectives for Bioindication and Phytoremediation. In N. A. Anjum, S. Singh Gill, & N. Tuteja (Eds.), Enhancing Cleanup of

Traffic-related metal pollution is a serious worldwide concern. Roadside soils are constantly subjected to the deposition of metals released by tailpipe gases, vehicle parts, and road infrastructure components. These metals, including platinum group... Read More about Metal Bioaccumulation by Plants in Roadside Soils: Perspectives for Bioindication and Phytoremediation.

MINLP Model for the Synthesis of Heat Exchanger Networks with Handling Pressure of Process Streams (2014)
Book Chapter
Onishi, V. C., Ravagnani, M. A., & Caballero, J. A. (2014). MINLP Model for the Synthesis of Heat Exchanger Networks with Handling Pressure of Process Streams. In 24th European Symposium on Computer Aided Process Engineering (163-168). Elsevier. https://

This paper introduces a new mathematical model for the simultaneous synthesis of heat exchanger networks (HENs), wherein the handling pressure of process streams is used to enhance the heat integration. The proposed approach combines generalized disj... Read More about MINLP Model for the Synthesis of Heat Exchanger Networks with Handling Pressure of Process Streams.

MINLP Optimization Algorithm for the Synthesis of Heat and Work Exchange Networks (2014)
Book Chapter
Onishi, V. C., Ravagnani, M. A., & Caballero, J. A. (2014). MINLP Optimization Algorithm for the Synthesis of Heat and Work Exchange Networks. In J. Jaromír Klemeš, P. Sabev Varbanov, & P. Yen Liew (Eds.), 24th European Symposium on Computer Aided Proce

This paper introduces a new optimization model for the simultaneous synthesis of heat and work exchange networks. The work integration is performed in the work exchange network (WEN), while the heat integration is carried out in the heat exchanger ne... Read More about MINLP Optimization Algorithm for the Synthesis of Heat and Work Exchange Networks.