Advances in water desalination

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