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 Generation & Desalination Technologies. It covers the basics of thermodynamics for power and water systems; the types of power generation technologies; the water-energy nexus principles, basics of desalination technologies and process flow in IWPP plants; the steam power plants (rankine cycle), gas turbine and combined cycle systems; and the nuclear energy fundamentals, solar power integration and electricity grid integration and dispatch. 

 

Further, the course will also discuss the fuel types and combustion issues, corrosion and material degradation, environmental compliance and maintenance and outage planning; the multi-stage flash (MSF) desalination, multi-effect distillation (MED), reverse osmosis (RO) desalination and hybrid desalination systems; the seawater intake and brine discharge; and the intake system design, screening and filtration, environmental impact of brine discharge, mitigation strategies and regulations. 

During this interactive course, participants will learn the energy efficiency in desalination and energy consumption comparison; the recovery systems and integration, renewable energy-powered desalination and desalination cost components; the DCS and SCADA systems in IWPP plants; the performance monitoring and optimization and maintenance management practices; the water quality assurance, parameters to monitor, laboratory testing and online sensors, compliance with WHO/GCC standards, disinfection and post-treatment; the occupational hazards, emergency shutdown procedures, chemical handling in desalination, confined space and hot work safety; the environmental regulations and compliance, international standards, emission control systems, wastewater treatment and reuse, auditing and reporting; the smart grids and digital utilities, energy storage and desalination and carbon reduction in power and water sector; and the predictive maintenance, leak detection in water systems, real-time analytics in generation and AI-assisted dispatch and load balancing.