Advances in water desalination by noam lior nook book. An advanced chemical and environmental engineering textbook as well as a comprehensive reference book, this. Personal information is secured with ssl technology. Water scarcity as an outcome of global population expansion, climate change, and industrialization calls for new and innovative technologies to provide sustainable solutions to address. Solar energy desalination technology explains how to obtain clean water from sea water using solar energy. During world war ii, it was felt that desalination technology desalting as it was called then should be developed to convert saline water into usable water, where fresh water supplies were limited. Economics and financing by corrado sommariva isbn 0866890696 balaban desalination publications 2010 price 59 contact. These chapters emphasize the relationship between problems encountered with the use of feed water, the processes. This study mainly focuses on upcoming trends in modern desalination technologies and emphasizing the options offered by them. Along with the major advantages and benefits resulting from its use, there are still aspects to improve such as energy consumption or the reduction in environmental impacts, mainly focused on. Desalination water and wastewater books and publications. Research avenues that show the most promise for reducing energy usage lie in the development and testing of novel desalination technologies with reduced. This compendium will assist designers, engineers and investigators to select the process and. Health and environmental impacts covers the latest developments in desalination, examining the environmental and public healthrelated impacts of these technologies.
Fundamentals of salt water desalination 1st edition. D 1141 standard practice for the preparation of substitute ocean water d 2035 standard practice. Advanced desalination technologies that are applied to seawater and brackish water prove to be effective alternatives in a variety of situations. Emerging technologies for sustainable desalination. Advanced desalination technologies that are applied to seawater and brackish. Desalination is a main source of fresh water in the gulf countries, a number of the caribbean and mediterranean islands, and several municipalities in a large number of countries. Desalination is a process that takes away mineral components from saline water. The asmc desalination technology has immediate, potentially commercial applications using type b catalysts, and 0. Wdr is the most accurate and uptodate news source for the desalination and advanced water treatment sector.
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