Proceedings of the Annual New Mexico Water Conference (56th): A Conference Linking Desalination and Renewable Energy.

摘要

This is the 56th Annual New Mexico Water Conference. The conference took place in Alamogordo, New Mexico, the home of the BGNDRF, on December 13-14, 2011. Tours of the desalination research facility were held before and after the conference and most conference participants at ended a tour. The BGNDRF is a focal point for developing technologies for the desalination of brackish and impaired groundwater found in U.S. inland states. The facility brings together researchers from federal government agencies, universities, the private sector, research organizations, and state and local agencies to work collaboratively and in partnership. The facility’s mission is to pursue research into supply-enhancing technologies using brackish groundwater sources including solutions to concentrate management, renewable energy/desalination hybrids, desalination technologies for produced water, and small-scale desalination systems. Water desalination apparatuses being developed by entities such as New Mexico State University, University of Texas at El Paso, General Electric, Veolia, Reclamation, and others were highlighted during the tours.