Different sources estimate that between 50 to 70 percent of the kingdom’s drinking water is desalinated, which requires a significant amount share from generated electricity.
Desalination Research Group (DRG) aims to investigate the development and integration of effective desalination processes powered by various Sustainable Energies.
Major R&D Thrusts
- Design and integration of reverse osmosis (RO) unit using solar power for seawater desalination.
- Coupling of concentrated solar power (CSP) with multiple effect distillation (MED) unit.
- Coupling of concentrated solar power (CSP) with membrane distillation (MD).
- Using concentrated Photovoltaic (CPV) in operating hybrid mechanical-thermal desalination.
- Using solar electricity generated by photovoltaic (PV) to drive RO units.
- Explore the operability of membrane distillation (MD) with applicable renewable energy sources.
- Utilize the solar thermal energy as a heat source for thermal desalination methods, such as MSF and MED.
- Optimum configuration of hybrid membrane/thermal desalination systems powered by renewable energy.
- Optimum selection of cogeneration systems for power and desalination.
- Optimum coupling of MSF desalination process with nuclear plant.
- Develop an improved methodology for achieving optimal pretreatment.
- Develop improved pretreatment methods for controlling scaling, fouling, and bio-fouling.
- Improvement of membrane technology coupled with the ability to recover energies in the desalination treatment processes.
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Supervision
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Prof. Ibrahim bin Saleh Almotaz |
| Professor |
| Chemical Engineering Department |
| College of Engineering, KSU |
| Phone No.: (+966)1-4676870 |
| Email: almutaz@ksu.edu.sa |
