Overview
This course will introduce you to water desalination technologies, processes and methods. You will learn the importance of site and water source selection. You will be introduced to an approach for selecting the appropriate desalination technology and process. You will learn about distillation/condensation techniques, membrane techniques and ion exchange techniques. You will find out how to develop process concepts, evaluate their utility, and move forward into preliminary design for projects and sites where water desalination is an operational requirement. This course will give engineers and others an introduction to technologies, processes and techniques for treating saline water, such as from the sea, to provide potable or suitable process water to meet the operational requirements of facilities and activities.
Specific Knowledge or Skill Obtained
This course teaches the following specific knowledge and skills:
- About water storage and system modularization
- About the typical desalination flowsheet
- About typical reverse osmosis desalination processes
- About cellulose acetate and polyaromatic amide membranes and their use in membrane desalination processes
- About electrodialysis reversal desalination technology
- The importance of energy conservation and efficiency when evaluating desalination processes
- About high temperature distillation/condensation techniques
- How multiple effect evaporation units are applied
- The characteristics of multistage flash-evaporation units
- About low-temperature distillation processes and how to apply them
- When to use vapor compression techniques in water desalination
- About applications of a multistage flash distillation facility
- About the importance of waste heat recovery evaporation process
- The fundamentals of the vapor-compression vertical-tube distillation system
- The principles of electrodialysis desalination
Course
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An Introduction to Water Desalination
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