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Advances in Water Desalination
Noam Lior (Edited by), N Lior (Author)
9780470054598, Wiley
Hardback, published 8 January 2013
712 pages
24.1 x 16 x 4.1 cm, 1.111 kg
“It is a key guide for professionals and researchers in water desalination and related areas including chemical, mechanical, and civil engineers, chemists, materials scientist, manufacturers of desalination membranes, water reuse engineers, and water authorities, as well as students in these fields.” (Biotechnol. Agron. Soc. Environ, 1 March 2013
Desalination is a dynamically growing field with more research, more engineering, more applications, more countries, more people, and with more training programs. This book provides high quality invited reviews on progress in various aspects of the desalination field. It features comprehensive coverage of desalination science, technology, economics, markets, energy considerations, environmental impact, and more. It is a key guide for professionals and researchers in water desalination and related areas including chemical, mechanical, and civil engineers, chemists, materials scientists, manufacturers of desalination membranes, water reuse engineers, and water authorities, as well as students in these fields.
Preface vii Introduction to the Book Series ix About the Authors xi 1. Water Desalination Revisited in Changing Physical and Economic Environments 1 2. Environmental and Performance Aspects of Pretreatment and Desalination Technologies 79 3. Economic Aspects of Water Desalination 197 4. Advances in Hollow-Fiber Reverse-Osmosis Membrane Modules in Seawater Desalination 309 5. Adsorption–Desalination Cycle 377 6. Advanced Instrumentation, Measurement, Control, and Automation (IMCA) in Multistage Flash (MSF) and Reverse-Osmosis (RO) Water Desalination 453 Index 659
Noam Lior
Noam Lior
Yehia M. El-Sayed
Sabine Lattemann,∗ Sergio G. Salinas Rodriguez, Maria D. Kennedy, Jan C. Schippers, and Gary L. Amy
Amitzur Barak
Atsuo Kumano
Anutosh Chakraborty, Kyaw Thu, Bidyut Baran Saha,∗ and Kim Choon Ng∗
Noam Lior,∗ Ali El-Nashar, and Corrado Sommariva
Subject Areas: Chemistry [PN]
