Programs

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.