Overview

With the advances of desalination technologies, sea water has become an interesting water source to cope with fresh water shortage. This process can be applied wherever a reliable source of water is needed.

Seawater is also rich in minerals which have market interest. With the large demand of salt in many geographical areas, producing salt. The most widely applied and commercially available technologies for sea water desalination can be divided in two types: membrane processes and thermal processes.

Types of desalination:

1. distillation (thermal desalination)
2. membrane techniques
3. solar desalination
4. pervaporation.

Speaker

Dr Azzam Younes

Dr Azzam Younes is a Chartered Chemical Engineer. On graduation he joined BG group engineering department and R&D. He has circa 30 years’ experience of working in the process industries mainly in oil and gas.

The material presented in this webinar has not been peer-reviewed. Any opinions are the presenter’s own and do not necessarily represent those of IChemE or the Aberdeen Members Group. The information is given in good faith but without any liability on the part of IChemE.   

Webinar archive

This webinar is free of charge and open to all to attend. If you wish to access the slides and a recording to replay on demand, you will need to be a member of the Aberdeen Members Group.