Session: Water Desalination and Purification (2008 Annual Meeting)

Thursday, November 20, 2008: 8:30 AM

Room 204-B (Pennsylvania Convention Center)

Description:

This session will focus on various aspects of water purification and desalination involving membrane-based processes including process optimization, novel membranes, process integration and novel desalination processes.

Sponsor:

Environmental Division

Chair:

Yoram Cohen
Email: yoram@ucla.edu

CoChair:

Francesc Giralt
Email: fgiralt@urv.cat

8:30 AM

(624a) Desalination Membranes Based on Directly Sulfonated Poly(arylene ether sulfone) Copolymers
Ho-Bum Park, Wei Xie, Joe Cook, James McGrath and Benny D. Freeman

8:55 AM

(624b) Energy Cost Optimization in Membrane Desalination and the Thermodynamic Restriction
Richard Zhu, Yoram Cohen and Panagiotis D. Christofides

9:20 AM

(624c) Utilization of Block Copolymers as Ultrafiltration Membranes
William A. Phillip, Mark Amendt, Brandon O'Neill, Marc A. Hillmyer and Edward L. Cussler

9:45 AM

(624d) Kinetics of Mineral Precipitation and Organics Removal In Brackish Water
Brian C. McCool, Anditya Rahardianto and Yoram Cohen

10:10 AM

(624e) Passive Vacuum Solar Flash Desalination
Mohammad Abutayeh and D. Yogi Goswami

10:35 AM

(624f) The Effect of the Presence of Antiscalants on Calcium Carbonate Precipitation: Evaluation of Calcium Precipitated, Particle Characteristics, and Fouling Potential
Lauren F. Greenlee, Elise Barbot, Benny D. Freeman, Desmond F. Lawler, Benoit Marrot and Philippe Moulin

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