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ReviewWater environment research : a research publication of the Water Environment Federation2025

A Critical Review of Produced Water Management Using the Chlor-Alkali Process: Challenges and Future Prospects.

Wajid Ali, Chunqing Jiang, Hassan Dehghanpour

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Review in Water environment research : a research publication of the Water Environment Federation, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. A Critical Review of Produced Water Management Using the Chlor-Alkali Process: Challenges and Future Prospects.Water environment research : a research publication of the Water Environment Federation · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Wajid AliDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, School of Mining and Petroleum Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0009-2589-4577
Chunqing JiangNatural Resources Canada, Geological Survey of Canada, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Hassan DehghanpourDepartment of Civil and Environmental Engineering, School of Mining and Petroleum Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Funding

Natural Resources CanadaUniversity of Engineering and Technology Peshawar, Pakistan
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The utilization of produced water (PW) as a feedstock for chlor-alkali (CA) processes offers significant potential for sustainable chemical production. This review article examines the technical feasibility of transforming PW into valuable products such as caustic soda, chlorine, and hydrogen gases through electrochemical processes. The high salinity of PW is identified as a potential advantage for reducing energy consumption in CA processes. However, the variable composition and presence of impurities, including multivalent cations like Ca

Indexed as

ChlorineWaste Disposal, FluidWater PurificationElectrolysisChlorinecaustic sodachlor‐alkali processchlorineelectrodeshydrogenproduced water

Identifiers

PMID40542550
PMCPMC12181759

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Registered trials

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