2008 Annual Meeting

Session: Water Desalination and Purification

This session will focus on various aspects of water purification and desalination involving membrane-based processes including process optimization, novel membranes, process integration and novel desalination processes.

Chair

Co-Chair

Francesc Giralt, Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Presentations

08:30 AM

(624a) Desalination Membranes Based on Directly Sulfonated Poly(arylene ether sulfone) Copolymers
Ho-Bum Park, Wei Xie, Joseph R. Cook, James McGrath, Benny D. Freeman

08:55 AM

(624b) Energy Cost Optimization in Membrane Desalination and the Thermodynamic Restriction
Richard Zhu, Yoram Cohen, Panagiotis D. Christofides

09:20 AM

(624c) Utilization of Block Copolymers as Ultrafiltration Membranes
William A. Phillip, Mark Amendt, Brandon O'Neill, Marc A. Hillmyer, Edward L. Cussler

09:45 AM

(624d) Kinetics of Mineral Precipitation and Organics Removal In Brackish Water
Brian C. McCool, Anditya Rahardianto, Yoram Cohen

10:10 AM

(624e) Passive Vacuum Solar Flash Desalination
Mohammad Abutayeh, D. Yogi Goswami

10:35 AM

(624f) The Effect of the Presence of Antiscalants on Calcium Carbonate Precipitation: Evaluation of Calcium Precipitated, Particle Characteristics, and Fouling Potential
Lauren F. Greenlee, Elise Barbot, Benny D. Freeman, Desmond F. Lawler, Benoit Marrot, Philippe Moulin