ME 479 Water Desalination (Elective)

ME 479 Water Desalination • Objectives, Need for Desalination, Desalination in KSA and in the world, Overview on desalination processes, Water composition, energy and desalination. • Single Effect Evaporation • Vapor Compression (VC) • Multiple Effect Evaporation (MEE) and MEE-VC: Configurations and modeling, Process analysis, Evaporators • Single and Multi Stage Flash Distillation (SSF and MSF) • Reverse Osmosis • Dual Purpose Power and Desalination plants. • Overview on other processes • Special topics: Reject brine management, Renewable energy and Desalination, etc..