Desalination

The severity of the water problem in Jordan was realized in the beginning of the 1980s. Many strategies and measures were proposed to alleviate and overcome this serious problem. These mainly include supply augmentation measures through constructing of various hydraulic structures and groundwater ex

The paper presents a global overview of the desalination of seawater. Lessons learned from success stories in the field are critically examined to indicate the potential of these initiatives to be treated as best practice initiatives for their possible applications in Mediterranean countries. Result

Both nuclear and desalination technologies are mature and proven by experience, and are commercially available from a variety of suppliers. From the early days of the two technologies, it was realized that the power of the atom could be utilized to overcome two of the challenges to the development o

Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR) and the Ministry of Electricity and Water (MEW) collaborated over the past 15 years in developing and adapting the seawater reverse osmosis (RO) technology to the Gulf seawater conditions (one and half time the salinity of open seas and large temperatu

Desalinated water is expensive to produce so its efficient management from the inception of the water cycle at the desalination plant to the reuse of the sewage effluent from the treatment plant is of paramount importance. The water crisis in the Arab World is discussed and compared with the oil cri

Fouling of the multistage flash (MSF) system condenser tubes used for water desalination reduces the system overall heat transfer coefficient very rapidly. Consequently, hearts the system efficiency and increases the cost of distillate water. In this study, a comparison between enhanced and plain tu

Conventional water resources meant for drinking water supply in Morocco’s Southern Provinces are very scarce. In order to offset this shortage the National Office for Potable Water (ONEP) entrusted with potable water planning and production in Morocco, has since 1975 resorted to the development of n

It is imperative to review the history of the past to provide a vision for the future. It is therefore the objective of this paper to review the history of the development of membranes and membrane processes for water production in general and seawater desalination in particular. The review highligh

This paper reviews the state of the art of cogeneration for power and distillation. The performance of several cogeneration options are considered in association with the MSF process for seawater desalination. Both full load and part load characteristics of each major commercial cogeneration process