389-Overview of Alternative Desalination Technologies

By: Nikolay Voutchkov, PE, BCEE

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Course Objective

This continuing education course is written specifically for professional engineers with the objective of relating to and enhancing the practice of engineering.

Course Description

389-Overview of Alternative Desalination Technologies

Fresh water can be produced from various saline water sources (ground water, brackish surface water or seawater) using a number of alternative desalination technologies such as thermal evaporation, reverse osmosis membrane separation and electrodialysis.

This course introduces the reader to the desalination technologies used most widely at present worldwide and defines key advantages, disadvantages, and areas of application of each of these technologies. The provided information encompasses both thermal evaporation technologies such as multistage flash distillation (MSF), multi-effect distillation (MED) and vacuum compression (VC) as well as reverse osmosis desalination using spiral wound membranes (RO) and electrodialysis reversal (EDR) systems. The course contains graphs and tables comparing the capital and operation and maintenance expenditures and water production costs of these alternative desalination technologies and highlights the differences in their energy use and fresh product water quality.

Questions about this course? Email the Author: nvoutchkov@water-g.com

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Review of: Overview of Alternative Desalination Technologies

Ersin Kasirga

03/18/2023

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Great overview course of desalination technologies.

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Review of: Overview of Alternative Desalination Technologies

S.Solano

08/03/2022

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I really enjoyed all information and presentation. Very thorough.

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389-Overview of Alternative Desalination Technologies

Thomas J Grant

09/24/2020

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Comprehensive overview of desalination technologies. Explains the advantages, limitations and costs of each type of technologies along with a brief process description. Contains basic cost data. Won't make you an expert but gives you a start.

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Course Code: 100203-10

Course PDH Hours: 4

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This course is accepted for engineering continuing education credit in all US states, territories, the District of Columbia, and Canadian provinces.
Ohio rules allow only 6-hours of unsupervised online courses such as this course per license renewal period
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