PROGRAM
| Tuesday May 9th | ||
| 9.00 | Visit to Sorek Desalination Plant sponsored by IDE Departure promptly from the David Intercontinental Hotel |
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| 16.00 | Registration and Reception at the David Intercontinental Hotel |
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| Wednesday morning May 10th | ||
| 8.00 | Registration | |
| 9.30–10.45 | Opening Ceremony Francesco Talo, Ambassador, Embassy of Italy Lars Faaborg-Andersen, Ambassador, Embassy of the European Union Youzhi Guo, China Water Enterprises Confederation Lior Ben Artzi-Gershon, Head of CleanTech Sector, Israel-European R&D Directorate Kevin Price, Bureau of Reclamation USA and MEDRC Emillio Gabrielli, President, International Desalination Association |
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| 10.45–11.00 | Keynote Izzeldin Abuelaish, Professor of Public Health, University of Toronto Water for hope, health and peace |
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| 11.00–11.30 | Coffee break Exhibit Poster session |
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| 11.30–12.00 | Keynote presentation Ora Kedem, Professor Emeritus, Weizmann Institute of Science and Ben Gurion University of the Negev Where can electrodialysis compete? |
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| 12.00–13.00 | Lunch |
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| Wednesday afternoon May 10th | ||
| 13.00–14.20 | Session 1 Regional and Case Studies Chair: George Papadakis, Erineos Koutsakos |
Session 2 Electrodialysis Chair: Alessandro Tamburini |
| 13.00 | 29 Selective desalination of brackish water by electrodialysis for irrigation use Ben Cohen, Naftali Lazarovitch, Jack Gilron (Israel) |
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| 13.20 | 43 Industrial effluents reuse via advanced membrane technology — unique projects in Israel Ravid Levy (Israel) |
14 CaSO4 scaling on ion exchange membranes during Donnan exchange and electrodialysis Meital Asraf-Snir, Jack Gilron, Yoram Oren (Israel) |
| 13.40 | 48 Analysis of farmers’ attitude toward irrigation with desalinated brackish water in Israel and Jordan Andrea Ghermandi, Tom Minich, Sireen Naoum (Israel) |
68 Effect of spacer geometry on limiting current density and pressure drop in electrodialysis M. Turek, E. Laskowska, K. Mitko, M. Słowik, D. Gierzkiewicz, P. Dydo, A. Jakóbik-Kolon (Poland) |
| 14.00 | 69 Direct driven small scale sea water reverse osmosis desalination unit powered by PV: Case study of an Aegean Sea Island, Greece Christos-Spyridon Karavas, Konstantinos G. Arvanitis, Essam Sh. Mohamed, Evangelos Dimitriou, George Papadakis (Greece) |
90 Hierarchical modelling of electrodialysis desalination process Antonino Campione, Luigi Gurreri, Alessandro Tamburini, Andrea Cipollina, Giorgio Micale, I.D.L. Bogle (Italy) |
| 14.20–14.40 | Coffee break | |
| 14.40–16.20 | Session 3 Plant Design and Operation Chair: Alex Drak, Hilla Shemer |
Session 4 Reverse Electrodialysis /
Innovative technologies Chair: Andrea Cipollina, Joachim Koschikowski |
| 14.40 | 31 Design challenges of the Jamnagar SWRO plant – From piloting to commissioning - IDE Alex Drak, Denis Vial, Franz Heigl, Roland Winkler, Peter Berg, Tomer Efrat (Israel) |
110 Modelling reverse electrodialysis process via exergy analysis F. Giacalone, P. Catrini, A. Cipollina, A. Tamburini, G. Micale, A. Piacentino (Italy) |
| 15.00 | 44 Proof of design and system balancing through use of transient pressure monitoring Frank K. Smith, III (USA) |
108 Coupling CFD simulation with a simplified process model for reverse electrodialysis units Mariagiorgia La Cerva, Luigi Gurreri, Andrea Cipollina, Alessandro Tamburini, Massimiliano Di Liberto, Michele Ciofalo, Giorgio Micale (Italy) |
| 15.20 | 91 Water chlorination using in situ electrolysis Pini Littman, Hiam Vanunu, Isak Duenyas (Israel) |
17 Asymmetric capacitive deionization for water purification and recovery by using mesoporous carbon and silver nanoparticles Yuan-Cheng Tsai, Ruey-an Doong (Taiwan) |
| 15.40 | 27 Development of high recovery MSF desalination process David Hasson, Marina Shmulevsky, Hilla Shemer, Raphael Semiat (Israel) |
83 Development and investigation of a new multi-channel spiral wound DCMD module for large-scale application David Düver, Andrea Hagedorn, Joachim Koschikowski, Thomas Mann, Dennis Maucher, Daniel Winter (Germany) |
| 16.00 | 106 Pro's and con's of inland BWRO-concentrate freeze desalination Amitzur Barak (Israel) |
105 Desalination of real brackish groundwater using electrodialysis C.Onorato, L.J. Banasiak, A.I. Schefer (Germany) |
| 16.20–16.45 | Coffee break | |
| 16.45 | Plenary Session - Cross Border Cooperation | |
| 56 The water and energy nexus as a catalyst for Middle East peace Gidon Bromberg (Israel) 62 Water status and the opportunities of solar water desalination in the Gaza strip Mahmoud Shatat (Palestinian Authority) 88 Desalination, (de)securitisation and cooperation Maureen Walschot (Belgium) Discussion Eilon Adar, Ben Guirion University of the Negev Jack Gilron, Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research, Ben Guirion University of the Negev Rami Messalem, Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research, Ben Guirion University of the Negev Izzeldin Abuelaish, Professor of Public Health, University of Toronto Abdulrahman Tamimi, Director General, Palestinian Hydrology Group for Water Environmental Resources (PHG) Yousef Abu Mayla, Water and Environment Expert, Gaza Oded Fixler, Ministry of Regional Cooperation, Israel Sireen Fakhri Naoum, Mai Subhi Diab, Nahla Ali Ellayan, National Center for Agricultural Research and Extension (NCARE) |
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| 19.00 | Poster session with drinks
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| Thursday morning May 11th | ||
| 9.00–10.40 | Session 5 RO/NF/PRO Chair: Thomas Luxbacher, Raphael Semiat |
Session 6 Zero liquid discharge / Membrane failure Chair: Alexey Pervov |
| 9.00 | 76 Automatic cartridge filter performance analysis for RO membrane protection, demonstration of comparison with cartridge filters in BWRO plant Adva Zach Maor, Marina Holenberg, Roi Peled, Adam Bloom, Anat Lakretz-Mashiah, Carmit Ram, Yuval Hilb, Inbal David (Israel) |
93 Membrane-based minimal liquid discharge (MLD) technology for wastewater treatment Guillem Gilabert-Oriol, Tina L. Arrowood, Steven Jons, Mahesh Kulkarni (Spain) |
| 9.20 | 64 Theoretical modeling and verification of reverse osmosis membrane element under variable operating conditions Evangelos Dimitriou, Panagiotis Boutikos, Essam Sh. Mohamed, Slawomir Koziel, George Papadakis (Greece) |
34 Deposition of calcium and magnesium from RO concentrate by means of seed crystallization and production of softened water for technical purposes Alexey Pervov, Alexey Andrianov, Roman Efremov, Dmitry Spitsov (Russia) |
| 9.40 | 42 Does the membrane zeta potential approach zero at high salinity? Thomas Luxbacher (Austria), Bryan Coday, Tzahi Y. Cath (USA) |
79 Hydraulic-arm aided closed circuit batch-RO desalination apparatus of lowest energy and highest recovery prospects amongst existing methods Avi Efraty (Israel) |
| 10.00 | 101 Modeling of osmotic energy extraction and exploration of real PRO parameters Abraham Sagiv, Wenyan Xu, Panagiotis D. Christofides, Yoram Cohen, Raphael Semiat (Israel) |
73 Zero liquid discharge desalination: brine treatment based on electrodialysis metathesis and valuable compound recovery Sandra Meca, Mireia Mesas, Xavier Martínez, Winod Bhikhi, Henk Jongerden, Patricia Zamora, Hicham El Bakouri (Spain) |
| 10.20 | 66 Very high salinity water treatment by nanofiltration membranes G. Gilabert-Oriol, S. Das, E. Jove, V. Gomez, V. Garcia Molina (Spain) |
107 A tribute to spectacular membrane failures N. Peña, F. del Vigo (Spain), S.P. Chesters, S. Jarrige (UK) |
| 10.40–11.00 | Coffee break | |
| 11.00–13.00 | Session 7 Wastewater Treatment / MBR Chair: Jack Gilron, Jih-Gaw Lin | Session 8 Thermal desalination Chair: Guillermo Zaragoza, Heike Glade |
| 11.00 | 50 Effect of cross-flow velocity, oil concentration and salinity on the critical flux of an oil-in-water emulsion in microfiltration Henry J. Tanudjaja (Singapore), Volodymyr V. Tarabara (USA), Anthony G. Fane, Jia Wei Chew (Singapore) |
71 Membrane distillation for the treatment of high-salinity aqueous solutions in the regeneration of salinity gradient resources J.A. Andrés-Mañas, P. Palenzuela, D.C. Alarcón-Padilla, F.G. Acién, G. Zaragoza (Spain) |
| 11.20 | 65 Treatment of oil–water emulsions by adsorption onto resin and activated carbon G. Melich, S. Das, P. Carmona, A. Esteve, V. Gomez, J. Villa, E. Jové (Spain) |
98 Single-pass zero thermal input membrane distillation (ZTIMD) for seawater desalination Mohammadali Baghbanzadeh, Dipak Rana, Christopher Q. Lan, Takeshi Matsuura (Canada) |
| 11.40 | 55 Algae based wastewater treatment for energy saving and resource recovery Udi Leshem (Israel) |
82 Multi-effect distillation for regeneration of saline solutions used in a RED close-loop process Patricia Palenzuela, Diego C. Alarcón-Padilla, Guillermo Zaragoza (Spain) |
| 12.00 | 7 Hybrid MBR-PAC process for wastewater treatment Noya Ran, Boris Freger, Jack Gilron, Moshe Herzberg (Israel) |
47 Innovative evaporator geometry for desalination applications and its promising thermal performance
Heike Glade, Maximilian Waack (Germany), Stein Oddvar Sægrov, Otto Godeset (Norway) |
| 12.20 | 58 Two-stage anaerobic fluidized-bed membrane bioreactor with zeolite as carrier to treat campus domestic wastewater Wen-Hsing Chen, Cheng-Yu Tsai, Jih-Gaw Lin (Taiwan) |
37 Six-stage solar multi-effect humidification dehumidification desalination process plotted from pinch analysis
Shaobo Hou (China) |
| 12.40 | 99 The effect of SRT on biodegradation of municipal wastewater with low COD/TKN ratio in a submerged MBR
Hanife Sari Erkan, Guleda Onkal Engin (Turkey) |
38 Experimental research of a multi-basin type desalination installation
Shaobo Hou (China) |
| 13.00–14.00 | Lunch | |
| Thursday afternoon May 11th | ||
| 14.00–15.40 | Session 9 Environment / Brine Management Chair: Edo Bar-Zeev | Session 10 Fouling (I) Chair: Yoram Oren |
| 14.00 | 25 Impacts of seawater desalination on coastal environments Edo Bar Zeev, Eyal Rahav (Israel) |
15 Advancement in seawater and wastewater membrane foulant analysis using chromatic elemental imaging
Mike Jefferies, Sara Pietsch, Fiona Finlayson (UK) |
| 14.20 | 97 Installation of intakes and outfalls with trenchless methods: technologies and case studies
Lutz zur Linde (Germany) |
23 Antimicrobial and antifouling graphene containing spacer for fouling control in membrane and water treatment technology Swatantra P. Singh, Yilun Li, Avraham Be'er, Yoram Oren (Israel), James M. Tour (USA), Christopher J. Arnusch (Israel) |
| 14.40 | 24 The effects of SWRO desalination brine discharge on benthic heterotrophic microbial communities
Hila Frank, Eyal Rahav, Edo Bar Zeev (Israel) |
40 Comparing the impact of spacer-biofouling in forward osmosis and membrane distillation by lumped parameter
modeling Anne Bogler (Israel), Shihong Lin (USA), Edo Bar-Zeev (Israel) |
| 15.00 | 26 Saline groundwater from coastal aquifers as a source for desalination Shaked Stein, Amos Russak, Orit Sivan, Yoseph Yechiel, Eyal Rahav, Yoram Oren, Roni Kasher (Israel) |
59 Integrated reverse osmosis and membrane cleaning systems for fouling prevention Avi Efraty (Israel) |
| 15.20 | 114 Remineralization of desalinated water by limestone dissolution: New stabilization process Menachem Priel, Nicolas Charles Nelson, Elena Gelman, Anat Lakretz, Inbal David, Silvan Bleich, Herbert Riebl, Johann Kallenberg (Israel and Switzerland) |
9 The influence of electric fields on the adsorption dynamics of bio-polyelectrolytes at solid-liquid interfaces
Natan-Haim Kalson, Moshe Herzberg, Yoram Oren (Israel) |
| 15.40–16.00 | Coffee break | |
| 16.00–17.00 | Session 11 Water Treatment / Diffusion dialysis Chair: Anna Trusek-Holownia, Andrea Schäfer |
Session 12 Fouling (II) Chair: Dave Johnson |
| 16.00 | 41 Pressure membrane separation of peat components Anna Trusek-Holownia, Magdalena Raczynska (Poland) |
81 Measuring ATP and AOC in seawater reverse osmosis plants Almotasembellah Abushaban, Sergio.G. Salinas-Rodriguez, Subhanjan Mondal, Said A. Goueli, Jan C. Schippers, Maria D. Kennedy (The Netherlands) |
| 16.20 | 70 Application and characterization of self-support carbon nanotube microporous membrane for water and wastewater filtration
Chidambaram Thamaraiselvan, Carlos G. Dosoretz (Israel) |
61 KURIVERTER IK 110 – biofouling removal and prevention in membrane systems
Dave Johnson (Germany) |
| 16.40 | 103 Impact of module size on solar powered membrane filtration (UF-NF/RO) Andrea I. Schäfer, Azam Jeihanipour, Junjie Shen, Bryce S. Richards |
87 Dynamics of oil droplets at a membrane surface: deformation, reversibility and implications for fouling Gali Fux, Guy Z. Ramon (Israel) |
| 17.00 | 109 Experimental investigation and modelling of diffusion dialysis process for regeneration of acidic pickling solutions S. Randazzo, R. Gueccia, A. Cipollina, A. Tamburini, G. Micale (Italy) |
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| 19.00 | GALA DINNER Welcome in the lobby followed by the dinner in the conference area |
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| Friday morning May 12th | ||
| 9.00–10.30 | Discussion — Cross Border Cooperation Eilon Adar, Ben Guirion University of the Negev Jack Gilron, Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research, Ben Guirion University of the Negev Rami Messalem, Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research, Ben Guirion University of the Negev Izzeldin Abuelaish, Professor of Public Health, University of Toronto Abdulrahman Tamimi, Director General, Palestinian Hydrology Group for Water Environmental Resources (PHG) Yousef Abu Mayla, Water and Environment Expert, Gaza Gidon Bromberg, EcoPeace Middle East Oded Fixler, Ministry of Regional Cooperation, Israel Sireen Fakhri Naoum, Mai Subhi Diab, Nahla Ali Ellayan, National Center for Agricultural Research and Extension (NCARE) Mohamed Ahmed, Palestinian Water Authority |
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| 10.30–11.00 | Coffee break | |
| 11.00 | Closing |
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| POSTERS | ||
| 1 | Study on treatment of oil-field produced water by liming Marco Tagliabue, Alessandra De Folly D’Auris, Paolo Filtri, Roberto Bagatin (Italy) |
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| 5 | Application of reverse osmosis to treat high ammonia concentrated reject water from sewage sludge digestion Alexey Pervov, Nikolay Makisha, Konstantin Tikhonov (Russia), Wojciech Dabrowski (Poland) |
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| 10 | Off-grid desalination for irrigation in the Jordan Valley: A student-led team project Philip A. Davies, Clive Lipchin, Monther Hind (UK) |
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| 22 | Uncertainty analysis as criteria for select the best coefficient of performance prediction by artificial neural network Dario Colorado-Garrido, Beatris Adriana Escobedo-Trujillo, Ivan Cobaxin, Francisco Alejandro Alaffita-Hernández, Jose Vidal Herrera-Romer (Mexico) |
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| 28 | Reverse electrodialysis - reverse osmosis hybrid for seawater desalination using secondary treated wastewater effluent: optimal pre-treatment strategy M. Vanoppen, T. Van Vooren, M. Nowak, N. Tiggelman, A. Verliefde (The Netherlands) |
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| 30 | A study on the design of SWRO-PRO hybrid desalination system Wonil Lee, In-Ho Yeo, Taeshin Park, Yong-Gyun Park (Korea) |
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| 33 | Membrane production quality control for improved performance of desalination Vyatcheslav Dzyubenko (Russia) |
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| 36 | Organic-inorganic ion-exchangers based on weakly acidic resin for removal of toxic components from water Yu.M. Volfkovich, L.N. Ponomarova, Yu.S. Dzyaazko, V.E. Sosenkin (Russia) |
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| 46 | The effect of performance parameters and optimization of operating conditions for spiral wound PRO modules Yeonju Sim, Manjae Han, Jonghwa Lee (Korea) |
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| 49 | Numerical simulation for designing horizontal falling film evaporator for desalination process J.A. García-Martínez, D. Colorado-Garrido, J.V. Herrera-Romero, B.A. Escobedo-Trujillo (Mexico) |
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| 52 | Halophyte remediation of dairy farm wastewater Ezra Orlofsky, Simon Chernoivanov, Alisa Cohen, M. Iggy Litaor (Israel) |
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| 57 | Capacitive deionization of aqueous solutions with a cation-anion – exchange membrane of mosaic structure Yu.M. Volfkovich, A.Yu. Rychagov, A.A. Mikhalin, M.M. Kardash, N.A. Kononenko, D.V. Ainetdinov, M.A. Fomenko, V.E. Sosenkin (Russia) |
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| 60 | KURIVERTER RC – membrane rejuvenation technology Dave Johnson (Germany) |
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| 63 | Water resources management in Gaza Strip, Palestine Mohammed R. Ahmed (Palestinian Authority) |
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| 67 | Optimal operating conditions analysis for a double-effect absorption heat pump coupled to a multi effect distillation plant Jose A. Carballo, Javier Bonilla, Patricia Palenzuela, Lidia Roca, Alberto De la Calle (Spain) |
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| 73 | Zero liquid discharge desalination: brine treatment based on electrodialysis metathesis and valuable compound recovery Sandra Meca, Mireia Mesas, Xavier Martínez, Winod Bhikhi, Henk Jongerden, Patricia Zamora, Hicham El Bakouri (Spain) |
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| 84 | Simulation of a real plant for the combined treatment of wastewaters and liquid wastes V. Innocenzi, M. Prisciandaro, G. Mazziotti di Celso, A. Zammartino, S. Chianese, D. Musmarra (Italy) |
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| 85 | On the effect of pH and TiO2 on diclofenac photolysis removal P. Iovino, S. Chianese, V. Leone, M. Santonastaso, M. Prisciandaro, D. Musmarra (Italy) |
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| 92 | Microbial desalination for low energy drinking water A. Alhadidi, N. Tiggelman (The Netherlands) |
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| 96 | Recovery of reverse osmosis membranes at the end of their useful life. Life Remembrane Project Santiago Sahuquillo Paul, Pilar Icaran López, Sergio Muñoz Galiano (Spain) |
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| 100 | Seawater desalination in China: development status and prospect Youzhi Guo, Feng Guo, Yan Yang, Haichen Gong, Can Zhou, Jun Zhang (China) |
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| 102 | Brackish water off-grid desalination systems for developing countries E. Toet, E. van der Burg, N. Tiggelman, H.-J. Rapp, D. Gutzeit, M. Vanoppen, L. Gutierrez, A. Verliefde (The Netherlands), L. Gurreri, A. Campione, A. Cipollina (Italy) |
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| 104 | Computational fluid dynamics approach to determine membrane concentration polarization and module performance with fluctuating energy Cristina Onorato, Maximillian Gaedtke, Michael Kespe, Hermann Nirschl, Andrea I. Schäfer (Germany) |
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| 111 | NH4HCO3–water solutions regeneration in RED closed loop applications M. Bevacqua, F. Giacalone, A. Tamburini, F. Scargiali, A. Cipollina, G. Micale (Italy) |
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| 112 | Ion exchange membrane deformation and its relevance in reverse electrodialysis G. Battaglia, A. Cipollina, A. Di Matteo, L. Gurreri, G. Micale, A. Pirrotta, A. Tamburini (Italy) |
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| 113 | ResourSEAS Company: Sustainable magnesium hydroxide extraction from salty solutions via a novel membrane reactor Alessandro Tamburini, Maurizio Bevacqua, Michael Papapetrou, Giorgio Micale, Andrea Cipollina (Italy) |
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