Programs
Start Date
January 7, 2025
January 7, 2025
Course Visits: 2,404
Duration
20 Hours
20 Hours
Course Content:
1-Overview:-
- Introduction to water supplies
- Why desalination?
- Global drinking water shortage
- What is water salinity?
- Who are the potential users of the desalinated water?
- Some examples of the existing desalination processes.
2-Characteristics of seawater and fresh water:-
- Salinity concentration
- Molality and molarity.
3-Fundamental of thermodynamics of desalination:-
- Introduction to basic principles of thermodynamics
- Free energy
- Chemical potential
- Principals of phase transfer.
4-Separation Process:-
- Ion-exchange
- Osmosis
- Reverse-osmosis
- Nano-filtration
5-Desalination Process:-
- Thermal desalination
- Multistage flash
- Multiple effect
- Distillation
- Vapor compression.