Desalination Sustainability: A Technical, Socioeconomic, and Environmental Approach presents a technical, socioeconomical, and environmental approach that guides researchers and technology developers on how to quantify the energy efficiency of a proposed desalination process using thermodynamics-based tools.
The book offers the technical reader an understanding of the issues related to desalination sustainability. For example, technology users, such as public utility managers will gain the ability and tools to assess whether or not desalination is a good choice for a city or country.
Readers will learn new insights on a clear and practical methodology on how to probe the economic feasibility of desalination using simple and effective tools, such as levelized cost of water (LCOW) calculation.
Decision-makers will find this book to be a valuable resource for the preliminary assessment of whether renewable-powered desalination is a good choice for their particular setting.
- Presents the issues related to desalination sustainability
- Guides researchers and technology developers on how to quantify the energy efficiency of a proposed desalination process using thermodynamics-based tools
- Outlines a clear and practical methodology on how to probe the economic feasibility of desalination using simple and effective tools
- Provides a roadmap for decision-makers on the applicability of a desalination process at a particular setting
Academic researchers in chemical engineering/ desalination technology, policy makers, social scientists, public utility managers, environmental scientists, cost engineers, renewable energy developers and marketers, as well as desalination technology providers
- Introduction: What is sustainable desalination?
2. Membrane-based desalination technology for energy efficiency and cost reduction
3. Advanced membrane based desalination systems for water and minerals extraction from the sea
4. Nanoparticle incorporation into desalination and water treatment membranes - potential advantages and challenges
5. Thermodynamics, Exergy, and Energy Efficiency in Desalination Systems
6. Harmful algal blooms: threats to sustainable desalination and early warning solutions
7. Desalination Adoption and Challenges in the United States
8. Prospects and State-of-the-Art of Carbon Nanotube Membranes in Desalination Processes
9. Autonomous solar-powered desalination systems for remote communities
10. Levelized water cost assessment in thermal and photovoltaic solar-driven desalination plants
11. Success measures for desalination spin out technologies and the current state of companies
12. Brine discharge, modeling and management solutions: A short review
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- © Elsevier 2017
- 15th June 2017
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Prof. Arafat received his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati (Ohio, USA) in 2000. From 2000-2003, he worked as a researcher and project manager at Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) (Illinois, USA). His research at ANL was focused on process development for nuclear waste treatment at DOE sites. Between 2003 and 2010, Dr. Arafat served as a faculty member at the Chemical Engineering Department at An-Najah University (Palestine). In 2010, he joined Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as a visiting scholar for six months, after which he moved to Abu Dhabi (UAE) where he now works at Masdar Institute of Science and Technology in the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering. He is a recipient of several prestigious international awards and international research fellowships, including the USA Department of Energy (DOE) Secretarial Honor Award and the Mondialogo Engineering Award, awarded jointly by Daimler AG and UNESCO. He is also the recipient of 16 grants totaling USD $10M. He is an author of 70+ book chapters and peer-reviewed journal papers and 80+ conference papers. The focus of Dr. Arafat's research interests is on sustainable and autonomous desalination processes, the development of novel membranes for desalination and the development of sustainable solid waste management strategies. Dr. Arafat serves on the editorial board of many international peer- reviewed journals
Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates