The Role of PSE Community in Meeting Sustainable Freshwater Demand of Tomorrow's World via Desalination

摘要

This paper highlights how the Process Systems Engineering (PSE) community and the practitioners of desalination can address sustainable freshwater issue of tomorrow's world via desalination using model based techniques. This paper will focus both on thermal and membrane based desalination techniques but will restrict to only Multistage Flash (MSF) and Reverse Osmosis (RO) processes. State of the art and future challenges in both MSF and RO desalination process will be presented.