Elsevier Desalination Technologies: Design and Operation

Desalination Technologies: Design and Operation sets the scene for desalination technologies as a long term solution to freshwater demand by analyzing the current demand for water, available water resources and future predicted demand.  The book captures recent developments in thermal desalination (multistage flash desalination, multi-effect evaporation, vapor compression), membrane desalination (forward osmosis, reverse osmosis, pressure retarded, electrodialysis, membrane distillation, ultra-, nano-, and micro-filtration), and alternative processes such as freezing and ion exchange. Both dynamic and steady state models (from short cut, simple, to detail) of various desalination processes are discussed. The book is intended for (under)graduate students in chemical engineering and postgraduate researchers and industrial practitioners in desalination. Review Comprehensive reference capturing the fundamentals of thermal and membrane desalination and discussing dynamic and steady state models of desalination From the Back Cover Desalination Technologies: Design and Operation sets the scene for desalination technologies as long term solutions to freshwater demand by analyzing the current demand for water, available water resources and future predicted demand. It captures recent developments in thermal desalination (multistage flash desalination, multi-effect evaporation, vapour compression), membrane desalination (forward osmosis, reverse osmosis, pressure retarded, electrodialysis, membrane distillation, ultra-, nano-, and micro-filtration), and alternative processes such as freezing and ion exchange. Both dynamic and steady state models (from short cut, simple, to detail) of various desalination processes are discussed. The book is intended for (under)graduate students in chemical engineering and postgraduate researchers and industrial practitioners in desalination. About the Author Iqbal M. Mujtaba is a Professor of Computational Process Engineering and is the Head of the School of Engineering. He is a Chartered Chemical Engineer, a Chartered Scientist and is a Fellow of the IChemE. Professor Mujtaba is actively involved in many research areas, including dynamic modelling, simulation, optimization and control of batch and continuous chemical processes with specific interests in distillation, industrial reactors, refinery processes and desalination. Professor Mujtaba has managed several research collaborations and consultancy projects with industry and academic institutions in the UK, Italy, Hungary, Malaysia, Iraq, China, Libya, Qatar, India, Bahrain, Algeria, Thailand and Saudi Arabia. He has published 229 technical papers in international scientific journals, international conference proceedings and books and has supervised 24 PhD students since 1997 and is currently supervising 8 PhD and 1 MPhil projects. He has given over 60 invited lectures home and abroad and several keynotes in international conferences. Dr. Md Tanvir Sowgath is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Engineering. He is currently Visiting Academic of the School of Engineering, University of Bradford, UK. He is an Associate Member of the IChemE (UK) and is a technical member for the Ministry of Environment (Bangladesh). He has 7 years of teaching and research experience in the field of Chemical Engineering as an Assistant Professor at BUET. Dr. Sowgath obtained his BEng degree in Chemical Engineering at BUET and obtained his PhD degree from the University of Bradford in 2007. His main research interests are in process modelling, dynamic simulation, steady state and dynamic optimization of chemical processes with specific interests in desalination, gas processing, and refinery. His current research focus is in the area of desalination process at the University of Bradford with particular interest in fault diagnosis, scheduling and maintenance of desalination processes.