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Event Intensive courses on Desalination Engineering: Thermal Desalination Processes. Management and Economics

The course topics include information about desalination technology, starting with basic concepts of water chemistry and desalination mass and energy balance. This is followed by detailed evaluation of two major desalination methods: MSF & MED distillation. The technology description includes theoretical principles of the process, principles of desalination system operation, system design, evaluation of the economics of the process.

The course will describe also the common interface of thermal desalination with associated power plants and various configurations and matching criteria. The course will then illustrate the main aspects of desalination economics including a description of the market environment and prices, project delivery
mechanisms (private – turnkey multi-contracts etc.) and budgeting a desalination project.

The economic session will be related to both thermal and RO processes. Participants should be end users, turnkey contractors, developers who wish to gain a more detailed understanding of thermal desalination and the associated interface with a power plant. Course objectives are to provide a theoretical basis and practical information on desalination technology with emphasis on thermal  processes and to become familiar with the basic aspects of the design of a desalination project using thermal technology and with operating conditions of desalination systems.

Lecturer Corrado Sommariva, Ph.D.

Contact information Miriam BALABAN, European Desalination Society, Science and Technology Park of Abruzzo, Via Antica Arischia 1, 67100 L’Aquila, Italy (email: balaban@desline.com ; eds@desline.info)
Phone: +39 0862 319954 ; Fax +39 0862 3475 213
Event type Training
File link http://www.desline.com/Sommariva_course_2008.pdf
Source European Desalination Society (EDS)
Subject(s) DRINKING WATER AND SANITATION : COMMON PROCESSES OF PURIFICATION AND TREATMENT , SANITATION -STRICT PURIFICATION PROCESSES
Relation http://www.emwis.net/topics/Desalination
Geographical coverage Italy
Address L'Aquila University, Faculty of Engineering- L’Aquila, Italy
Organizer L'Aquila University & European Desalination Society (EDS)
Target audience International
Duration A 4-day intensive course
Period [04/02/2008 - 07/02/2008]
Status Confirmed
Working language(s) ENGLISH
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