A multidisciplinary introduction to desalination /

Although more than 70% of the globe is covered with water, only a small portion is suitable for direct human use, making the scarcity of freshwater one of our plant's most serious challenges. In this context "desalination", defined as "the removal of salt from water", is one...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Bazargan, Alireza (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Gistrup, Denmark : River Publishers, [2018]
Colección:River Publishers series in earth and environmental sciences.
Temas:
Saline water conversion.
Water-supply.
Eau salée > Dessalement.
Eau > Approvisionnement.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Environmental > General.
SCIENCE > Environmental Science.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Introduction
  • 1. Water scarcity : where we stand / Eric M.V. Hoek
  • 2. Alternative freshwater solutions to desalination / Arjen van Nieuwenhuijzen [and 3 others]
  • 3. Fundamentals of desalination technology / Alireza Bazargan and Blanca Salgado
  • 4. Water chemistry and desalinated water quality / Alireza Bazargan, Amir Jafari and Mohammad Hossein Behnoud
  • Part II. Unit operations
  • 5. Thermal processes / Ibrahim S. Al-Mutaz
  • 6. Membrane desalination technologies / Dongxu Yan
  • 7. Pretreatment / Nikolay Voutchkov
  • 8. Post-treatment / Alireza Bazargan, Reza Mohktari and Mohammad Shamszadeh
  • Part III. Science and technology
  • 9. The origins of today's desalination technologies / Dr. Jim Birkett
  • 10. Research and development management / John Peichel and Alireza Bazargan
  • 11. Membrane chemistry and technology / Steven Jons [and 3 others]
  • 12. State-of-the-art desalination research / Seyed Hamed Aboutalebi, Alexandros Yfantis and Nokolaos Yfantis
  • Part IV. Energy and environment
  • 13. Desalination powered by renewable and nuclear energy sources / Veera Gnaneswar Gude
  • 14. Energy consumption and minimization / Konstantinos Plakas, Dimitrios Sioutopoulos and Anastasios Karabelas
  • 15. Brine management / Christopher Bellona
  • 16. Environmental impacts of desalination plants / Karim Bourouni
  • Part V. Social and commercial issues
  • 17. Rural desalination / Leila Karimi and Abbas Ghassemi
  • 18. Society, politics, and desalination / David Zetland
  • 19. Desalination costs and economic feasibility / Jadwiga R. Ziolkowska
  • 20. The business of desalination / Tom Scotney and Simeon Pinder.

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