Desalination Engineering Planning Design and Operation

Offers theoretical principles of desalination and their practical application The step-by-step approach presented for selection, design and cost estimating of key desalination plant treatment components Each chapter contains examples illustrating various technologies and their practical implementation. International System of Units (SI) with US units included in parenthesis where appropriate ' Pre-treatment and Reverse Osmosis Process and Configuration Selection included.

Nikolay Voutchkov is an internationally recognized expert in the field of membrane water and wastewater treatment with extensive experience in the development of seawater desalination projects. He is the president of Water Globe Consulting which provides independent engineering advisory services to the desalination and water reuse industry. Mr. Voutchkov is an active member of the WateReuse Association ' Desalination Committee; the American Water Works Association ' Desalination and Membrane Process Committees; the American Membrane Technology Association, and the International Desalination Association.

Chapter 1. Desalination Engineering: An Overview
Chapter 2. Source Water Quality Characterization
Chapter 3. Reverse Osmosis Desalination Fundamentals
Chapter 4. Project Planning and Basic Design Considerations
Chapter 5. Project Environmental Review and Permitting
Chapter 6. Intakes for Source Water Collection
Chapter 7. Source Water Intake Pump Station
Chapter 8. Source Water Screens
Chapter 9. Source Water Conditioning
Chapter 10. Sand Removal, Sedimentation and Dissolved Air Flotation
Chapter 11. Pretreatment by Granular Media Filtration
Chapter 12. Pretreatment by Membrane Filtration
Chapter 13. Comparison of Granular Media and Membrane Filtration
Chapter 14. Reverse Osmosis Separation
Chapter 15. Post Treatment of Desalinated Water
Chapter 16. Desalination Plant Discharge Management
Chapter 17. Desalination Cost Estimating