Course Description

This practical and highly-interactive course includes real-life case studies and exercises where participants will be engaged in a series of interactive small groups and class workshops. Water desalination technologies play a crucial role in socio-economic development in a number of countries in the world. Desalinated water is an essential and often the sole, source of fresh water in several of these countries, and rising living standards and high population growth are likely to render desalination a viable option for many areas of the world. Fresh water is rapidly becoming a scarce resource in many countries around the world. Desalination technologies, applied to seawater and brackish water, offer effective alternatives in a variety of circumstances. For some countries in the world particularly in Gulf States they are on the most arid part of the globe and characterized by some of the world?s highest population growth rates, would benefit greatly from the adaptation, further development and wider dissemination of desalination technologies. Large-scale thermal desalination technologies have been in use since the 1950s. The larger desalination plants have provided fresh water supplies for drinking municipal use and agricultural development, particularly in the Gulf States. In the past, high capital costs and heavy energy consumption generally translated into excessive desalinated water costs. However, advances in technology have helped to drastically reduce capital and running costs as well as energy requirements, rendering desalination more viable an option than ever before.This course is essentially aimed at outlining trends in desalination technologies and highlighting the options offered by recent technological advances. The course covers available technologies, proposed design improvements and market potential in the near future. Through case studies, some of their more salient features are examined. Energy demands for both current processes and the newer innovations will be discussed. The course will cover both major processes in water desalination, the thermal and the membrane separation.

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TRAINING METHODOLOGY

This interactive training course includes the following training methodologies:

30 % Lectures
20 % Workshops & Work Presentations
20 % Case Studies & Practical Exercises
30 % Videos, Software & Simulators

In an unlikely event, the course instructor may modify the above training methodology for technical reasons.

VIRTUAL TRAINING (IF APPLICABLE)

If this course is delivered online as a Virtual Training, the following limitations will be applicable:

Certificates	:	Only soft copy certificates will be issued
Training Materials	:	Only soft copy materials will be issued
Training Methodology	:	80% theory, 20% practical
Training Program	:	4 hours per day, from 09:30 to 13:30