Desalination

Design, technical, economic and regulatory analyses of full-scale plants.

Energy consumption and energy recovery;

Environmental issues related to desalination;

Hybrid desalination processes;

Membrane desalination processes;

New membrane/material and the impact on desalination performance;

Performance aspects, for example causes, consequences and countermeasures of fouling and scaling;

Recovery of resources from brines;

Related systems to desalination such as pre-treatment, post-treatment, integrated plants and brine disposal;

Renewable energy applications in desalination;

Thermal desalination processes;

Transport and process modelling in desalination;

Electrodialysis desalination process;

Novel desalination technologies and processes.

Recovery of resources from brines and issues related to brine mining;

Resource recovery for a circular economy in water reuse and desalination;

Hydrogen with water industries;

Emerging contaminants using desalination membranes and technologies;