Water Desalination Technologies and New Development

Objectives

• Apply and gain depth knowledge on the operation, heat balance, performance, optimization, start-up and troubleshooting of MSF and RO water desalination plants
• Develop a good understanding of thermal and flash desalination, single and multiple effects of evaporation, fouling, scaling and the recent trends desalination
• Describe the RO membrane desalination processes and the basic principles of MF and UF, including the fouling and cleaning of these systems
• Develop a good understanding of the basic principles and design of reverse osmosis technology(RO)
• Discuss fouling, pre-and post-treatment for RO and NF systems

Outline

Day one: 

• The global water crisis
• The desalination market
• Desalination and sustainability

Day Two: 

• Fouling in RO plants
• Safe and sustainable intake and outfall systems
• Environmental impacts of desalination processes

Day Three:

• Renewable-energy powered desalination
• Novel desalination technologies: membrane distillation

Day Four:

• Assessing the economic feasibility of new desalination processes
• Recent advances in desalination

Day Five:

• The Singapore experience: new water

TBD: The Boron issue in desalination

Who Should Attend ?

This course is intended for all engineers, scientists and technologists involved in the planning, management and operation of water desalination systems and also for manufacturers, consultants, designers, researchers, and water personnel. This course is also suitable for water laboratory staff including lab managers, chemists, scientists, analysts, technologists, and another lab technical staff.