Sustainable Desalination Handbook: Plant Selection, Design and Implementation

Sustainable Desalination Handbook: Plant Selection, Design and Implementation provides the comprehensive knowledge base required for efficient and sustainable process design for existing and new desalination plants around the world. This valuable resource for understanding and utilizing the most recent developments in desalination technologies and methods addresses the necessary components, including process design and implementation, operational strategies, and novel discoveries that minimize environmental impacts. In addition, the book features essential illustrations, operational details, issues and potential solutions and sustainable management strategies for present and future desalination plants.

Explains plant design and process selection criteria for each desalination processPresents international regulations and permitting for intake and discharge locations, design and disposalProvides energy recovery schemes, optimization and process controlsCovers renewable energy sources, such as nuclear, geothermal, solar and wind powered desalination, energy storage and optimizationIncludes case studies of recent desalination projects and process design

1. Membrane Desalination - Process Selection, Design, and Implementation 2. Energy Efficiency in Reverse Osmosis 3. Environmental Impact and Technoeconomic Analysis of Hybrid MSF/RO Desalination: The Case Study of Al Taweelah A2 Plant 4. Trigeneration and Polygeneration Configurations for Desalination and Other Beneficial Processes 5. Design and Construction of Open Intakes 6. Design and Construction of Subsurface Intakes 7. Brine Disposal and Management - Planning, Design, and Implementation 8. Post treatment of desalinated water 9. Desalination Concentrate Management and Valorization Methods 10. Environmental regulations - Inland and coastal desalination case studies 11. Impact of seawater desalination on coastal environments 12. Microbial communities in the process and effluents of seawater desalination plants 13. Impact of algal blooms and their toxins on RO desalination plant operations 14. Social issues and public acceptance of seawater 15. Environmental life cycle analysis of desalination processes