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Exponential growth in population and improved standards of living
demand increasing amount of freshwater and are putting serious
strain on the quantity of naturally available freshwater worldwide.
Water Management: Social and Technological Perspectives discusses
developments in energy-efficient water production, management,
wastewater treatment, and social and political aspects related to
water management and re-use of treated water. It features a
scientific and technological perspective to meeting current and
future needs, discussing such technologies as membrane separation
using reverse osmosis, the use of nanoparticles for adsorption of
impurities from wastewater, and the use of thermal methods for
desalination. The book also discusses increasing the efficiency of
water usage in industrial, agricultural, and domestic applications
to ensure a sustainable system of water production, usage, and
recycling. With 30 chapters authored by internationally renowned
experts, this work offers readers a comprehensive view of both
social and technological outlooks to help solve this global issue.
Exponential growth in population and improved standards of living
demand increasing amount of freshwater and are putting serious
strain on the quantity of naturally available freshwater worldwide.
Water Management: Social and Technological Perspectives discusses
developments in energy-efficient water production, management,
wastewater treatment, and social and political aspects related to
water management and re-use of treated water. It features a
scientific and technological perspective to meeting current and
future needs, discussing such technologies as membrane separation
using reverse osmosis, the use of nanoparticles for adsorption of
impurities from wastewater, and the use of thermal methods for
desalination. The book also discusses increasing the efficiency of
water usage in industrial, agricultural, and domestic applications
to ensure a sustainable system of water production, usage, and
recycling. With 30 chapters authored by internationally renowned
experts, this work offers readers a comprehensive view of both
social and technological outlooks to help solve this global issue.
Desalination Technologies: Design and Operation sets the scene for
desalination technologies as a long-term solution to freshwater
demand by analyzing the current demand for water, available water
resources and future predicted demand. The book captures recent
developments in thermal desalination (multistage flash
desalination, multi-effect evaporation, vapor compression),
membrane desalination (forward osmosis, reverse osmosis, pressure
retarded, electrodialysis, membrane distillation, ultra-, nano-,
and micro-filtration), and alternative processes such as freezing
and ion exchange. Both dynamic and steady state models (from short
cut, simple, to detail) of various desalination processes are
discussed. The book is intended for (under)graduate students in
chemical engineering and postgraduate researchers and industrial
practitioners in desalination.
The batch distillation process has existed for many centuries. It
is perhaps the oldest technology for separating or purifying liquid
mixtures and is the most frequently used separation method in batch
processes. In the last 25 years, with continuous development of
faster computers and sophisticated numerical methods, there have
been many published works using detailed mathematical models with
rigorous physical property calculations and advanced optimisation
techniques to address several important issues, such as selection
of column configurations, design, operation, off-cut recycling, use
of batch distillation in reactive and extractive modes, etc. Batch
Distillation: Design and Operation presents excellent, important
contributions of many researchers from around the globe, including
those of the author and his co-workers.
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