ME681 [Thermal Desalination of Saline Water] - 2nd Semester 2022-23
Course Outline [File]
Course content: Introduction to thermal desalination, Water Supply, Properties of seawater, Energy of separation, Diffusion Model, Distillation, Least Heat of Distillation, Single Effect Evaporation, Multiple Effect Evaporation, Multi Stage Flash Distillation, Humidification- Dehumidification, Membrane Distillation, Reverse Osmosis, Nanofilteration, Electrodialysis, Use of Renewable Energy for Desalination (Solar Desalination Systems), Economic Analysis, Industry Practices, Summary, GOR (Gain Output Ratio), RR(Recovery Ratio).
Useful books:
H. T. El-Dessouky, and H. M. Ettouney, Fundamentals of Salt Water Desalination, Elsevier Science, 2002, NY, ISBN 0444543422
J. Kucera, Desalination: Water from Water, 2nd Ed., Scrivener Publishing LLC, 2019.
Mark Wilf, Leon Awerbuch, Craig Bartels, Mike Mickley, Graeme Pearce, Nikolay Voutchkov, The Guidebook to Membrane Desalination Technology: Reverse Osmosis, Nanofiltration and Hybrid Systems Process, Design, Applications and Economics, Balaban Publishers, 1st Edition, 2001, ISBN 0866890653.
Richard W. Baker, Membrane Technology and Applications, Wiley, 2012, NY, ISBN 9780470743720, DOI:10.1002/9781118359686
Useful links:
World Health Organization’s (WHO) Guidelines for drinking-water quality, 4th edition (Link).
James E. Miller, Review of Water Resources and Desalination Technologies, SAND 2003-0800 Report, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM, USA (Link) (Link2).
India Water Resources Information System, India-WRIS (Link) (Link on NWIC).
The Water-Energy Nexus: Challenges and Opportunities (U.S. Department of Energy) (Link).
The Feynman Lectures on Physics (Link).
Wang, L., Violet, C., DuChanois, R. M., and Elimelech, M., 2020, "Derivation of the Theoretical Minimum Energy of Separation of Desalination Processes", Journal of Chemical Education, Vol. 97, 4361−4369. DOI:10.1021/acs.jchemed.0c01194 (Link)
Link to MIT OpenCourseWare, Spring 2009, Desalination And Water Purification by Prof. John Lienhard & Dr. Miriam Balaban
Some online tools and resources:
Online Psychrometric Chart & Calculator (Link).