Table of Contents
Preface vii
Noam Lior
Introduction to the Book Series ix
Noam Lior
About the Authors xi
1. Water Desalination Revisited in Changing Physical and Economic Environments 1
Yehia M. El-Sayed
2. Environmental and Performance Aspects of Pretreatment and Desalination Technologies 79
Sabine Lattemann,∗ Sergio G. Salinas Rodriguez, Maria D. Kennedy, Jan C. Schippers, and Gary L. Amy
3. Economic Aspects of Water Desalination 197
Amitzur Barak
4. Advances in Hollow-Fiber Reverse-Osmosis Membrane Modules in Seawater Desalination 309
Atsuo Kumano
5. Adsorption–Desalination Cycle 377
Anutosh Chakraborty, Kyaw Thu, Bidyut Baran Saha,∗ and Kim Choon Ng∗
6. Advanced Instrumentation, Measurement, Control, and Automation (IMCA) in Multistage Flash (MSF) and Reverse-Osmosis (RO) Water Desalination 453
Noam Lior,∗ Ali El-Nashar, and Corrado Sommariva
Index 659
