COURSE OVERVIEW

 This practical and highly-interactive course includes various practical sessions and exercises. Theory learnt will be applied using our state-of-the-art simulators. 

 

This course is designed to provide participants with a detailed and up-to-date overview of RO and Desalination Technologies. It covers the importance and application of desalination, types of desalination technologies, global desalination capacity and demand and economic considerations in desalination; the principles of reverse osmosis (RO), desalination process flow, types of desalination technologies and challenges in desalination; the factors influencing plant design, RO plant capacity considerations, layout and components of RO plants; and the integration with existing water infrastructure. 

 

Further, the course will also discuss the types of membranes, membrane structure and function; the selection criteria for RO membranes as well as membrane cleaning and maintenance; the RO feed water quality covering water quality parameters, pre-treatment requirements for feed water and monitoring feed water quality for system optimization; the energy consumption in RO systems, types of energy recovery devices, efficiency of energy recovery systems and cost implications of energy recovery in desalination; the function of pumps in RO systems and selection of pumps for high-pressure applications; and the pressure vessels design, material considerations and maintenance and operational issues. 

During this interactive course, participants will learn the post-treatment and distribution, operational monitoring and control and pre-treatment techniques in desalination; the types of fouling an RO membrane, fouling mitigation, membrane cleaning and monitoring fouling and scaling; the effect of fouling on RO performance, energy efficiency in desalination, zero liquid discharge (ZLD) systems and hybrid desalination systems; the methods for brine disposal, brine concentration and crystallization and sustainable brine management technologies; the environmental impact assessment of desalination plants and regulatory frameworks for environmental protection; the desalination research future trends, desalination project management and desalination in arid regions; and the operational optimization of RO plants, scaling up desalination plants and cost and financial considerations.