The book presents a thorough overview of the latest trends and challenges in renewable energy technologies applications for water desalination, with an emphasis on environmental concerns and sustainable development. Emphasis is on the various uses of renewable energy, as well as economics & scale-up, government subsidies & regulations, and environmental concerns. It provides an indication on how renewable energy technologies are rapidly emerging with the promise of economic and environmental viability for desalination. Further it gives a clear indication on how exactly to accelerate the expansion and commercialization of novel water production systems powered by renewable energies and in what manner environmental concerns may be minimized. This book is all-inclusive and wide-ranging and directed at decision makers in government, industry and the academic world as well as students.
About the Author: Hacene Mahmoudi
(1975, Algeria) is a full Professor at the University Hassiba Benbouali of Chlef, Algeria, where he is acting asVice President for external relations. The doctoral degree of Dr Mahmoudi is in mechanical engineering from the University of Sciences and Technology of Oran (2008) Algeria. He is the author of over 60 publications and chapters in textbooks. Hacene is a member of the Editorial Board of several water related journals and books. Pr. Hacene Mahmoudi's research interests are in the areas of renewable energy, desalination, sustainable development and membrane preparation and characterization.
Dr.-Ing. Noreddine Ghaffour is a Research Professor at theWater Desalination & Reuse Center (WDRC) at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST). He is the WDRC's Research Theme Leader on Desalination. Before leaving Montpellier University, France, where he spent seven years, he spent another seven years as R&D and Capacity Building Manager at the Middle East Desalination Research Center (MEDRC). Prof. Noreddine has over 25 years of experience in the field of drinkingwater treatment technologies, and has specialized in the area of membrane and thermal based desalination processes and its related fields. Over the years, he has made major contributions becoming an internationally recognized expert in desalination technologies and its related fields, such as renewable energy-driven and innovative energy-efficient desalination technologies. He obtained his PhD degree from Montpellier University, France, in 1995. He is the author of over 200 publications, several patents and chapters in textbooks. Noreddine is an Associate Editor of the Desalination Journal and a member of the Editorial Board of otherwater related journals.
Mattheus (Theo) F. A. Goosen (1950, Netherlands), who is a Canadian citizen, has played key roles in the development of new start up academic institutions. For the past nine years he has held the position of founding Associate Vice President for Research & Graduate Studies at Alfaisal University a private start-up non-profit institution in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. His doctoral degree is in chemical & biomedical engineering from the University of Toronto (1981) Canada. Theo has more than 180 publications to his credit including over 135 refereed journal papers, 45 conference papers, 11 edited books and 10 patents. Dr Goosen's research interests are in the areas of renewable energy, desalination, sustainable development, membrane separations, spray coating technology and biomaterials.
Jochen Bundschuh (1960, Germany), finished his PhD on numerical modeling of heat transport in aquifers in Tübingen in 1990. He is working in geothermics, subsurface and surface hydrology and integrated water resources management, and connected disciplines. From 1993 to 1999 he served as an expert for the German Agency of Technical Cooperation (GTZ - now GIZ) and as a long term professor for the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) in Argentina. From 2001 to 2008 he worked within the framework of the German governmental cooperation (Integrated Expert Program of CIM; GTZ/BA) as adviser in mission to Costa Rica at the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE). Here, he assisted the country in evaluation and development of its huge low-enthalpy geothermal resources for power generation. Since 2005, he has been an affiliate professor of the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. In 2006, he was elected Vice-President of the International Society of Groundwater for Sustainable Development ISGSD. From 2009-2011 he was visiting professor at the Department of Earth Sciences at the National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan. Since 2012, Dr. Bundschuh is a professor in hydrogeology at the University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia where he leads the Platform for Water in the Nexus of Sustainable Development working in the wide field of water resources and low/middle enthalpy geothermal resources, water and wastewater treatment and sustainable and renewable energy resources.
Dr. Bundschuh is author of the books "Low-Enthalpy Geothermal Resources for Power Generation" (CRC Press/Balkema) and "Introduction to the Numerical Modeling of Groundwater and Geothermal Systems: Fundamentals of Mass, Energy and Solute Transport in Poroelastic Rocks". He is editor of 16 books and editor of the book series "Multiphysics Modeling", "Arsenic in the Environment", "Sustainable Energy Developments" and "SustainableWater Developments" (all CRC Press/Balkema). Since 2015, he is an editor in chief of the Elsevier journal "Groundwater for Sustainable Development".
