Desalination

Augustine Ifelebuegu; Sue Charlesworth; Colin A Booth

doi:10.1002/9781118809167.ch8

Desalination

Augustine Ifelebuegu
, Sue Charlesworth
, Colin A Booth

University of the West of England

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Abstract

Desalination offers a technological alternative to transform the inexhaustible supply of sea water into potable fresh water and could assist alleviating future water scarcity. Desalination technologies are classified under two broad categories: distillation processes and membrane processes. In addition to the more established technologies used today, there are emerging methods under active development, with some nearing commercialisation. These new emerging desalination technologies are described in this chapter. Reduction in the cost of membranes, high-permeability membranes, improved operational efficiency and integration of energy recovery processes in the last few years have made membrane technology more economical to thermal desalination processes and competitive with other alternative and conventional means of water supply. The chapter illustrates an example of a commercially available small RO plant. It discusses related issues of environmental impacts, renewable energy sources (RES), and sustainable water supplies. The chapter also presents a case study on The Thames Water Desalination Plant

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Water Resources in the Built Environment
Subtitle of host publication	Management Issues and Solutions
Editors	Colin A Booth, Sue M Charlesworth
Place of Publication	Oxford
Publisher	Wiley
Pages	92 - 103
Number of pages	12
ISBN (Print)	978-0-470-67091-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118809167.ch8
Publication status	Published - 1 Apr 2014

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 6 Clean Water and Sanitation
SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy

Keywords

Distillation processes
Membrane processes
Renewable energy sources (RES)
Sustainable water supplies
Thames Water Desalination Plant
Water desalination

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