Maghreb Conference on Desalination and Water Treatment

2015 06 cmtde

Conference Objectives

This fifth Maghreb Conference on Desalination and Water Treatment CMTDE 2015 provides an excellent forum for scientists, professionnals and technologists especially from North Africa countries. It will be devoted to fresh water and much lower rainfall. The following objectives will be discussed:

Present state of the art of desalination and water treatment
Research and applied work in desalination and water treatment
Needs for Maghreb countries in research, formation and coopertion

Topics

Desalination in remote and arid areas
Wasterwater treatment and reuse
Reverse osmosis, Ultrafiltration, Nanofiltration
Electrodialysis
Membrane distillation
Thermal desalination processes
Membrane preparation and characterization
Pretreatment (fouling and scaling, removal of specific compounds), membrane processes
Post-treatment of desalinated waters (disinfection, calco-carbonic equilibrium, corrosion)
Bacteriological aspects of water
Chemistry and thermodynamic of saline waters
Economic aspects of desalination, renewable energy, nuclear energy, energy recovery
Desalination and the environment