Jane Kucera is a chemical engineer with 25 years' experience in the area of membrane technology. Jane began her work with membranes in the Seawater Laboratory at UCLA where she received her Master of Chemical Engineering degree in 1984. She worked for 7 years with Bend Research, where she worked on water re-use systems for the International Space Station. Ms. Kucera's subsequent career path is a "who's who" of the world's most respected companies working in water treatment, including GE and Siemens. She joined the Nalco Company in 2003, where she is a senior engineer with a variety of responsibilities. She published Reverse Osmosis through Wilely-Scrivener in 2010, a book that has become the template for that technology, worldwide. She also has approximately 40 publications to her credit, including journal articles, and presentations. Wiley-Scrivener imprint.

1 Introduction to Desalination 1
Jane Kucera

2 Thermal Desalination Processes 51

3 Basic Terms and Definitions 139

4 Nanofiltration - Theory and Application 163
Christopher Bellona

5 Forward Osmosis 209
Jeffrey McCutcheon, Lingling Xia and Nhu-Ngoc Bui

6 Electrodialysis Desalination 245
Jae-Hwan Choi, Hong-Joo Lee and Seung-Hyeon Moon

7 Continuous Electrodeionization 287
Jonathan H. Wood and Joseph D. Gifford

8 Membrane Distillation: Now and Future 329
Xing Yang, Anthony G. Fane and Rong Wang

9 Humidification Dehumidification Desalination 387
John H. Lienhard V

10 Freezing-Melting Desalination Processes 433
Mohammad Shafiur Rahman and Mohamed Al-Khusaibi

11 Ion Exchange in Desalination 479
Bill Bornak

12 Electrosorption of Heavy Metals with Capacitive Deionization: Water Reuse, Desalination and Resources Recovery 497
Pei Xu, Brian Elson and Jörg E Drewes

13 Solar Desalination 525
Eydhah Almatrafi, D. Yogi Goswami, Mohammad Abutayeh, Chennan Li and Elias K. Stefanakos

14 Wind Energy Powered Desalination Systems 567
Jaime González, Pedro Cabrera and José A. Carta

15 Geothermal Desalination 647
Veera Gnaneswar Gude

16 Future Expectations 683

References 717

List of Contributors 721

Index 737