Intended Audience: civil engineers and other infrastructure design and construction professionals

PDH UNITS: 5

This course will introduce you to water desalination technologies, processes and methods. You will learn the importance of site and water source selection. You will be introduced to an approach for selecting the appropriate desalination technology and process. You will learn about distillation/condensation techniques, membrane techniques and ion exchange techniques. You will find out how to develop process concepts, evaluate their utility, and move forward into preliminary design for projects and sites where water desalination is an operational requirement. This course will give engineers and others an introduction to technologies, processes and techniques for treating saline water, such as from the sea, to provide potable or suitable process water to meet the operational requirements of facilities and activities. 1. Site Selection 2. Water Source Selection 3. General Process Selection 4. Distillation/Condensation Techniques 5. Membrane Techniques 6. Ion Exchange Techniques

Learning Objectives

At the successful conclusion of this course, you’ll be able to identify and discuss:

Learn about water storage and system modularization
Learn about the typical desalination flowsheet
Learn about typical reverse osmosis desalination processes
Learn about cellulose acetate and polyaromatic amide membranes and their use in membrane desalination processes
Learn about electrodialysis reversal desalination technology
Learn the importance of energy conservation and efficiency when evaluating desalination processes
Learn about high temperature distillation/condensation techniques
Learn how multiple effect evaporation units are applied
Learn the characteristics of multistage flash-evaporation units
Learn about low-temperature distillation processes and how to apply them
Learn when to use vapor compression techniques in water desalination
Learn about applications of a multistage flash distillation facility
Learn about the importance of waste heat recovery evaporation process
Learn the fundamentals of the vapor-compression vertical-tube distillation system
Learn the principles of electrodialysis desalination