Desalination Technologies

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.



- Provides the fundamentals of different desalination processes



- Includes desalination modeling from short and simple, to detailed and more advanced



- Discusses desalination optimization and synthesis to reduce environmental impact



- Handles thermo-physical property models and correlations



- Includes case studies to give a clearer understanding of desalination