Advances in Water Desalination

About the Authors

Prof. Gary Amy is Director of the Water Desalination and Reuse Research Center and Named Professor of Environmental Science and Engineering at the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Prof. Amy's research focuses on membrane technology, innovative adsorbents, ozone/advanced oxidation, river bank filtration and soil aquifer treatment, natural organic matter and disinfection by-products, and organic and inorganic micropollutants.

Dr. Amitzur Ze'ev Barak born 1938 in Israel, got both his B.Sc. in Mechanical & Energy Engineering/Nuclear Engineering [1960] and his Doctor of Sciences-in-Technology, Civil Engineering/Hydro-Sciences [1974] at the Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology. Joined the desalination community [1962] as the Research Desalination Engineer at the IDE-Israel Desalination Engineering Ltd. Coinventor and development-manager of two low-temperature evaporative desalination processes—LTMVC [mechanical vapor compression, 1964] and LTMED [multieffect-distillation, 1969]. For these activities, he received the Israeli “Prime-Minister Award for Applied Research” [1976].

Manager of the Thermal Desalination R&D Department at IDE Ltd [1968–1974].

Manager of the “Joint US-Israel Desalination Program,” and director of all the Israeli governmental R&D activities on desalination [1976–1981].

Senior staff engineer for planning at the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission [1982–2003]. Since 2003, Professor of Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering at the Ariel University Center of Samaria, Israel. Consultant to the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency), the CERN, and dozen other entities on energy and desalination. Published over 60 papers and has six patents on desalination and solar energy.

Anutosh Chakraborty received his B.Sc. Eng. from BUET, Bangladesh, in 1997. He obtained his M. Engg. and Ph.D. degrees from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in 2001 and 2005, respectively. He worked as a JSPS Fellow at the interdisciplinary Graduate School of Engineering Sciences of Kyushu University, Japan. At present, he is working at the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, as an Assistant Professor. His research interests focus on micro/nanoscale transport phenomena, thin-film thermoelectric device; adsorption thermodynamics, adsorption cooling, gas storage, and desalination; and CO2-based cooling system. At present, Dr. Chakraborty has published about 100 articles in peer-reviewed journals and international conference proceedings and holds six patents.

Dr. Ali El Nashar is a mechanical engineer with specialization in the fields of energy and desalination and with a special interest in solar desalination and power generation. He received his Ph.D. degree in nuclear engineering from the Queen Mary College, University of London, UK, in 1968. His work experience covers applied research and development work at both academic and industrial institutions. He has been involved in teaching and research at several academic institutions in Egypt, UK, and USA, among them are the University of Alexandria and University of Mansoura in Egypt; the Queen Mary College, London University and Lanchester Polytechnic in the United Kingdom; and the Clemson University and Florida Institute of Technology in the United States. He has worked as the manager of cogeneration and desalination department at the Abu Dhabi Water & Electricity Authority (ADWEA) from 1982 to 2002, where his department participated in the commissioning of new desalination and power plants as well as monitoring the performance of existing plants operated by the ADWEA. He was also in charge of the solar desalination research program in the ADWEA during this period, where he supervised the installation, commissioning, and testing of the solar desalination demonstration plant in Umm Al Nar, which was designed and operated as a part of a joint research program with Japan's New Energy Development Organization (NEDO). He has been a member of several professional organizations, including the ASME, IDA, and ISE, and the editor of the IDA, Energy, and ISE. He has consulted for a number of international organizations, including the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP); Arab Agency for Industrial Development (AAID); Technology International, Inc. (USA); CH2M-Hill, Inc. (USA); Science Applications, Inc. (USA); Dow Chemical Europe (Switzerland); and Industrial Center for Water & Energy Systems (ICWES), Abu Dhabi. Dr. El-Nashar has more than 50 published papers, reports, and book chapters in his field of interest.

Dr. Yehia El-Sayed 1928–2010. Yehia El-Sayed was born in Alexandria, Egypt, on September 13, 1928. He received his bachelor's degree from Alexandria University and his doctorate in Mechanical Engineering from Manchester University in England. He taught and conducted research at Assiut University (Egypt), Kansas State University, Dartmouth College, Glasgow University (Scotland), Tripoli University (Libya), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His legacy persists in the thousands of students and colleagues whose careers and intellectual development he has influenced. He was a recognized international authority in desalination, thermodynamics, and thermoeconomics. He authored two books and numerous scientific papers. A Life Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineering, he was a two-time recipient of ASME's prestigious Edward F. Obert Award, in addition to a Best Paper Award from the International Desalination Association. Dr. El-Sayed's contributions brought the fundamentals of science to usefulness in engineering practice across the spectrum of energy conversions systems, providing principles for optimizing their technical and economic efficiency.

Editor-in-Chief's note: Yehia El-Sayed submitted his chapter but regrettably passed away before the publication of this book. His wisdom, kindness, and friendship will be missed by the desalination and thermodynamics scientific communities, including me.

Prof. Maria D Kennedy Ph.D., is the Professor of Water Treatment Technologies at UNESCO-IHE. She is a board member of the European Desalination Society. She has 18 years of research experience and currently specializes in research and development in the field of membrane technology. Her research areas of interest include membrane fouling (indices), scaling and cleaning, and modeling of membrane systems. She has been involved in international training projects in Israel (West Bank), Jordan, Oman, St. Maarten, and Yemen in the field of desalination and water reuse.

Dr. Atsuo Kumano is a professional engineer Japan, and in charge of technical matters in the Desalination Membrane Department in Toyobo Co., Ltd. Dr. Kumano's research and development focus on membrane technology and its engineering, for water treatment membranes such as reverse osmosis membrane for seawater desalination, and wastewater treatment including hollow fibre configuration module analysis.

Dr. Kumano holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Science and Engineering from Kobe University, Japan, 2011; an M.S. in Environmental Engineering from Osaka University, Japan, 1983; and a B.S. in Environmental Engineering from Osaka University, Japan, 1981.

Dr. Sabine Lattemann is a part-time Research Scientist at the Water Desalination and Reuse Center (WDRC) of the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Sabine has over 10 years of experience in environmental impact assessment (EIA) studies. Her main areas of interest include the desalination of seawater, offshore wind energy development projects, and maritime shipping impacts. From 2007 to 2010, Sabine worked on the topic of environmental impacts and life cycle assessment of seawater desalination plants within the European research project “MEDINA.” From 2004 to 2007, she chaired the environmental working group of the World Health Organization Project “Desalination for safe water supply.”

Sabine holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Marine Science from Otago University (New Zealand), an M.Sc. in Marine Environmental Science from the University of Oldenburg (Germany), and a doctorate degree from the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education and Delft University of Technology (The Netherlands).

Dr. Noam Lior is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics at the University of Pennsylvania, where he is also a member of the Graduate Group of International Studies, Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies (MA/MBA program); of the Institute for Environmental Science; and of the Initiative for Global Environmental Leadership (IGEL) at the Wharton Business School. He did his Ph.D. work on water desalination at the Seawater Conversion Laboratory of the University of California, Berkeley, and thus started active research, teaching, and consulting in this field in 1966. His editorships include the following.

Editor-in-Chief:

Advances in Water Desalination book series, John Wiley, since 2006.

Energy, The International Journal, 1998–2009.

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