Rodoula Ktori

Delft University of Technology | TU · Department of Biotechnology

Valuable and rare materials in seawater brine are often discarded during desalination. However, there is an increasing focus on recovering these resources, rather than minimizing their disposal volume, due to the economic and environmental opportunities it can bring. Despite this shift, current Sustainability Assessment (SA) studies in desalination...

Seawater, a rich source of valuable materials, can be efficiently treated for water and circular economy benefits. The transition to resource recovery requires the consideration of societal benefits and costs. This study employs Value Sensitive Design approach, integrating stakeholder values and expectations into technical scenarios design and asse...

Valuable and rare materials are found in seawater brine that are often discarded as waste during the desalination process. Treatment of seawater brine increasingly focuses on resource recovery instead of disposal minimization due to economic and environmental opportunities. The transition to resource recovery requires considering societal benefits...

This work explores resource recovery coupled to seawater desalination in small islands. As small islands depend on seawater desalination for water access, they make an excellent ground for exploring the trade-offs associated to resource recovery, like potential economic gains, energy use, and environmental impacts. Here, we investigated these tensi...

The sustainable supply of water is crucial, especially on islands where water is scarce. Our study applied the social life cycle assessment (S-LCA), under the organizational approach, to assess industrial water production on the island of Lampedusa, Italy. A novel plant for industrial water production considering a circular concept was compared wit...

European policy encourages the adoption of sustainable systems that promote the efficient use and recovery of minerals and chemicals. In this respect, desalination brines do contain a dramatic amount of valuable minerals and can be valorized through appropriate treatments rather than releasing them into the environment. This paper proposes an innov...