These are the topics for the forthcoming event in Porto, 27-30 April 2025
Innovation in applications and operations
- Advancements in pre- and post-treatment
- Desalination for agriculture, food, beverage, medicine
- Industrial wastewater treatment
- Lessons learned, safety
- O&M, troubleshooting
- Mega projects and plants
- Stand-alone off grid systems
- Regional Case study experience
Resource recovery and reuse
- Circular water economy (water reuse)
- Innovative process concepts (ZLD, MLD)
- Brine valorization and mining
- Brine concentration
- Advanced wastewater treatment for reuse
Climate adaption, environmental impact considerations, regulations
- Direct/Indirect potable reuse
- PFAS, pollutants, microplastics etc
- OMP Leaching from Polymeric Membranes
- Minimizing Chemical Consumption
- Water quality monitoring
- Brine disposal management
- Water positive/resilience/footprint
- Chemical-free pretreatment
- Green Antiscalants
Advanced techniques and processes
- Dynamic RO processes (Batch/Semi-batch/CCRO/RF-RO)
- High recovery processes
- Ultra-high pressure processes
- MD, FO, LSRRO, NF
- New desalination techniques
- Small Scale Desalination for Humanitarian Needs/Crisis
Developments in membranes, membrane fabrication and mass transfer considerations
- Advanced membranes
- Novel fabrication methods
- Fouling and scaling control
- Modelling and Simulation
Smart desalination
- Machine learning, use of AI
- Digital twins
- Big data
- Smart infrastructures
Sustainability and energy
- Desalination and net zero
- Desalination for hydrogen
- Decarbonization in desalination/carbon footprint
- Desalination using renewable energy
- Co-generation
- Energy efficiency
- Energy recovery systems
- Solar energy use
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