Water Desalination Technologies & New Development

Start Date End Date Venue Fees (US $)
28 Jun 2026 Istanbul, Turkey $ 4,500 Register
09 Aug 2026 Riyadh, KSA $ 3,900 Register
04 Oct 2026 Dubai, UAE $ 3,900 Register

Water Desalination Technologies & New Development

Introduction

This course introduces key issues related to promoting sustainable desalination operations in today’s desalination industry. The course analyzes developments in the desalination industry using the three elements of sustainability: cost, society, and the environment. The aim of this course is to help the students approach the desalination industry with sustainability in mind. As the desalination industry booms and new desalination-related systems, designs, processes, and products are introduced every year; these new developments could best be judged by their sustainability. In this context, the course covers topics such as environmental impacts of desalination processes, understanding water production via desalination within the water-energy-cost nexus, designing safe and sustainable intake and outfall systems for desalination plants, assessing the economic feasibility of new desalination processes, evaluation of renewable‐energy‐ powered desalination processes, evaluation and applications of novel desalination systems, such as membrane distillation and forward osmosis, recent technological improvements for enhanced desalination processes, and fouling issues in RO membranes. To better convey the course concepts, case studies will be presented.

Objectives

    By the end of the training, participants will be able to:

    • Apply and gain in-depth knowledge on the operation, heat balance, performance, optimization, start-up and troubleshooting of MSF and RO water desalination plants
    • Develop a good understanding of thermal and flash desalination, single and multiple effects of evaporation, fouling, scaling and the recent trends desalination
    • Describe the RO membrane desalination processes and the basic    principles of MF and UF, including the fouling and cleaning of these systems
    • Develop a good understanding of the basic principles and design of reverse osmosis technology (RO)
    • Discuss fouling, pre-and post-treatment for RO and NF systems

Training Methodology

This is an interactive course. There will be open question and answer sessions, regular group exercises and activities, videos, case studies, and presentations on best practice. Participants will have the opportunity to share with the facilitator and other participants on what works well and not so well for them, as well as work on issues from their own organizations. The online course is conducted online using MS-Teams/ClickMeeting.

Who Should Attend?

This course is intended for all engineers, scientists, and technologists involved in the planning, management, and operation of water desalination systems and also for manufacturers, consultants, designers, researchers, and water personnel. This course is also suitable for water laboratory staff including lab managers, chemists, scientists, analysts, technologists, and another lab technical staff.

Course Outline

Day 1: 

  • The global water crisis
  • The desalination market
  • Desalination and sustainability

Day 2: 

  • Fouling in RO plants
  • Safe and sustainable intake and outfall systems
  • Environmental impacts of desalination processes

Day 3:

  • Renewable-energy powered desalination
  • Novel desalination technologies: membrane distillation

Day 4:

  • Assessing the economic feasibility of new desalination processes
  • Recent advances in desalination

Day 5:

  • The Singapore experience: WATER
  • TBD: The Boron issue in desalination

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