Course Overview
- Course Title: Seawater Desalination Explained for Water Management
- Instructor: Green Courses
- Target Audience:
- Consultants
- Professionals looking for general knowledge about desalination, reverse osmosis, and membrane fouling
- Prerequisites: None
Curriculum Highlights
- Key Topics Covered:
- Introduction: Why Do We Need Desalination?
- How Much Desalination Is Being Used Worldwide?
- Why Should We Desalinate Seawater Before Using It?
- What Is Membrane Filtration?
- What Is Membrane Fouling?
- How Does Pretreatment Work?
- How Does Reverse Osmosis Desalination Work?
- How Does Post-treatment Work?
- What Are The Energy Consumption and Cost of Reverse Osmosis Desalination?
- What Are The Environmental Impacts Of RO Desalination?
- Conclusion
- Key Skills Learned:
- Understand the importance and relevance of water conservation and management
- Learn why we need desalination to produce safe water
- Learn the importance of desalination for water management worldwide
- Learn the steps of Desalination technology and how it works: pretreatment, reverse osmosis filtration, and post-treatment
- Learn energetic, economic, and environmental aspects of reverse osmosis desalination
Course Format
- Duration: 1.5 hours on-demand video
- Format: Self-paced online course
- Resources:
- 1 article
- Access on mobile and TV
- Certificate of completion