Research Abstracts

The city of Derna, Libya, located on the Green Mountain Coastal region is facing a severe water shortage problem as its water resources are exposed to sea water intrusion. This threatening phenomenon is being recurrent with several cities in the coast. This paper considers the evaluation of this pro

Libyan national plan (LNP) to resolve the water shortage problem will be illustrated through a quartet of a series of papers. The first series of papers (I) will deal with Great Man-Made River (GMMR) supplied from rich ground water reservoirs located in the southern desert regions. This paper (Ib) w

The paper presents a long-term scenario for the demand of freshwater in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and shows how it may be covered by a better use of the existing renewable water sources and by sea water desalination powered with solar energy. Growth of population and economy, increasin

For the expected installation and operation of additional seawater desalination plants, manpower is needed. Besides the financing and the manufacturing of these plants, the training of the future staff is a big challenge. It is assumed that in the MENA region each year more than 1000 people will hav

The paper lists and reviews the issues, considerations and factors that faced planners in Israel in introducing large scale seawater desalination plants within the national and regional water supply systems. Most importantly, the paper quantifies the cost and benefit consequences of these factors, t

A premature study has been conducted to overlook the viability and feasibility of the future of desalination in Libya, by estimating the water situation in several locations in the country. A simplified review of the spectrum of well-known desalination techniques and a presentation of these analysis

The environmental characteristics of the brine and its impacts on the marine environment were always the “backyard” and the less concern while planning and operating RO desalination plants. The lack of drinking water in Israel made desalination a national goal. The first huge RO plant was initially

The progressive increase of VOC emissions, the growing information of their hazardous nature, and the resulting increasingly more restrictive environmental regulations in the industrialized countries have induced the development of different methods for VOCs abatement. Membrane separation process is

Implementation of ISO 14001:2004 (environmental management system) has been executed for reverse osmosis desalination plants for the first time in Iran at Noor Vijeh Company (N.V. Co), a water and wastewater firm based in Tehran. The scope of work was the activities and product of company’s BWRO des

The desalination industries are considered to have a major role in developing human life. Recently this technology became widely distributed, and its construction along the coastal area has been widely reported. Many countries are adopting these technologies for securing the fresh water supply for c