Session: #624 - Water Desalination and Purification (09016)


Thursday, November 20, 2008: 8:30 AM-11:00 AM
Room 204-B (Pennsylvania Convention Center)
Environmental Division (09)
#624 - Water Desalination and Purification (09016)
This session will focus on various aspects of water purification and desalination involving membrane-based processes including process optimization, novel membranes, process integration and novel desalination processes.
Chair:	Yoram Cohen
CoChair:	Francesc Giralt
8:30 AM	624a	Desalination Membranes Based on Directly Sulfonated Poly(arylene ether sulfone) Copolymers Ho-Bum Park, Wei Xie, Joe Cook, James McGrath, Benny D. Freeman
8:55 AM	624b	Energy Cost Optimization in Membrane Desalination and the Thermodynamic Restriction Richard Zhu, Yoram Cohen, Panagiotis D. Christofides
9:20 AM	624c	Utilization of Block Copolymers as Ultrafiltration Membranes William A. Phillip, Mark Amendt, Brandon O'Neill, Marc A. Hillmyer, Edward L. Cussler
9:45 AM	624d	Kinetics of Mineral Precipitation and Organics Removal In Brackish Water Brian C. McCool, Anditya Rahardianto, Yoram Cohen
10:10 AM	624e	Passive Vacuum Solar Flash Desalination Mohammad Abutayeh, D. Yogi Goswami
10:35 AM	624f	The Effect of the Presence of Antiscalants on Calcium Carbonate Precipitation: Evaluation of Calcium Precipitated, Particle Characteristics, and Fouling Potential Lauren F. Greenlee, Elise Barbot, Benny D. Freeman, Desmond F. Lawler, Benoit Marrot, Philippe Moulin

Environmental Division (09)