The International Desalination Association (IDA) has finalised the speakers and topics for its new-style conference Desalination: An Energy Solution, which is being held on 2-3 November 2010 in Huntington Beach, California, the city likely to host the USA’s next large desalination plant after Carlsbad.
For this conference, IDA has assembled a group of leading scientists and engineers to describe their recent success with large-scale desalination of seawater. These practitioners have installed a multitude of seawater systems and taken advantage of new low-energy membranes and energy- recovery systems that have reduced the costs of desalting.
This in one of a number of IDA events which are designed to introduce desalination and water reuse topics to the water industry in general and also to garner public attention, as well as updating existing desalination practitioners.
Speakers and Topics for Discussion
Dr Bill Andrews – Bermuda
Isobaric Energy Recovery Technology – Economics and Potential Improvements
Leon Awerbuch – Leading Edge Technologies Ltd, USA
Thermal Opening Introduction and Water-Energy Nexus
Dr James Birkett – West Neck Strategies, USA
History and Broad Overview of Energy Concerns in Desalination
Dr Roberto Borsani – FISIA Italimpianti SpA, Italy
MSF System: Present Status and Future Direction – Advanced Energy
Dr Robert L Burk – NanoH2O, Inc, USA
Seawater Membrane Improvements
Gerard Canton – SIDEM, France
Innovations Anticipated to Further Increase Efficiency of Thermal Plants in the Future
Paul Choules – Veolia Water Solutions & Technologies, USA
Update on Large Scale Ocean Desal Plant: Gold Coast
Gary Crisp – GHD, Australia
Actual Energy Consumption and Water Cost for the SWRO Systems at Perth
Charles Desportes – Aquatech, USA
Examples of Advanced MED
Foo Hee Kiang – Commercial Contracts & Industry Relations, Singapore
Actual Cost of SWRO Using Isobaric Energy Recovery – TUAS Plant in Singapore
Dr Boris S Liberman – IDE Technologies Ltd, Israel
Present and Future: Energy Efficient Seawater Desalination
Prof John H Lienhard V – Center for Clean Water and Clean Energy, MIT, USA
Clean Water and Clean Energy
Fredi Lokiec – IDE Technologies Ltd, Israel
MED System – Present Status and Future Directions; A Case History: Reliance/Tianjin
Cesar Lopez – San Diego County Water Authority, USA
Overview – the California Picture
Claus Mertes – DME, Germany
Solar Desalination Systems – Present Status and Future Directions
Stein Erik Skilhagen – Statkraft, Norway
Osmotic Power: The Potential of Membranes to Produce Energy
Dr Rick Stover – Oasys Water Inc, USA
Energy Efficient Seawater Reverse Osmosis – State of the Art
John Tonner – Water Consultants International, USA
Energy, Efficiency – Hybrid Processes and Facility Optimization
Randy Truby – Toray Membrane USA, Inc
Membrane Opening Introduction
Nikolay Voutchkov – Water Globe Consulting, LLC, USA
Membrane Seawater Desalination – Overview and Recent Trends
Contact Candace MacLaughlin at cmaclaughlin@idadesal.org for information or go to the IDA website.