Volume 3 presents chapters contributed by leaders in water desalination that describe both existing and new developments in desalination approaches, new materials, selectivity, water treatment chemicals, energy consumption and production, in addition to environmental considerations of desalination. The book provides a balanced and updated discussions and references pertaining to selective separations, expanded theoretical principles of membrane distillation, electrodialysis, and pressure retarded osmosis, in addition to applications in water reuse and irrigation, pilot studies, new membrane materials, and stimuli responsive membranes.
Contents:
- Water Desalination: Current Status and New Developments (Yan Zhao, Lei Xia, Yangbo Qiu, and Bart Van der Bruggen)
- Energy and Environmental Impacts of Desalination (Hilla Shemer and Raphael Semiat)
- Post-Treatment of MBR Effluent by Pressure-Driven Membrane Processes for Agricultural Irrigation (Nalan Kabay, Mert Can Hacıfazlıoğlu, İlker Parlar, Horacio R Tomasini, Nasim Jalilnejad Falizi, Merve Gündoğdu, Yakubu Abdullahi Jarma, Taylan Özgür Pek, Lorenzo Bertin, and Mithat Yüksel)
- Polyelectrolyte Coagulants and Flocculants in Wastewater Treatment (Divya Iyer, Advait Holkar, and Samanvaya Srivastava)
- Blue Energy: Pressure Retarded Osmosis and Reverse Electrodialysis (Robert W Field and Jun Jie Wu)
- Modeling Thermodynamic and Hydrodynamic Effects on Ion Transport in Electrodialysis of Highly Saline Waters (Soraya Honarparvar, Chau-Chyun Chen, and Danny Reible)
- Membrane Distillation Pilot Units for Seawater Desalination (Francesca Macedonio, Alessandra Criscuoli, and Enrico Drioli)
- Performance of Membrane Distillation Technologies (Hamid Fattahi Juybari, Sina Nejati, Mohammad Rezaei, Harsharaj B Parmar, Albraa A Alsaati, Jaichander Swaminathan, Lucy Mar Camacho, and David M Warsinger)
- Capacitive Deionization (Steven A Hawks, Diego I Oyarzun, Ashwin Ramachandran, Patrick G Campbell, Juan G Santiago, and Michael Stadermann)
- Surface Modified Reverse Osmosis Membranes (Soomin Kim, Yian Chen, and Yoram Cohen)
- Roll-to-Roll, Scale-up of Nanocomposite Membranes Embedded with Silver Nanoparticles: From Laboratory Scale to Pilot Scale (Xiaobo Dong, Lillian Banks, Tequila A L Harris, and Isabel C Escobar)
- Application of MOF Nanomaterials in Water Treatment (Dipeshkumar D Kachhadiya and Z V P Murthy)
- Concept Demonstration and Future Developments of Sunlight Transmitting Nanophotocatalyst-Coated Substrates for Sustainable Low Pressure Water Filtration (Lavern T Nyamutswa, Stephen F Collins, Dimuth Navaratna, and Mikel C Duke)
- Water and Ion Transport in Carbon Nanotubes: Implications for Next Generation Water Treatment Solutions (Aleksandr Noy, Yun-Chiao Yao, and Xi Chen)
- Carbon Nanomaterials in Desalination Processes (Arpita Iddya, Unnati Rao, Jingbo Wang, Yiming Su, and David Jassby)
- Nanomaterials for Pressure Retarded Osmosis (Arvin Shadravan, Pei Sean Goh, and Ahmad Fauzi Ismail)
Readership: Researchers and advanced undergraduate students and graduate students specialising in the field of water science and water treatment. And water utilities and the general public who are interested in water treatment.

Dr Yoram Cohen is a Distinguished Professor of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering (CBE) at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and a Faculty member of the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability (1981–present). He is Faculty Affiliate of the California NanoSystems Institute, and Associate Faculty with the UCLA Center for Occupational and Environmental Health. Dr Cohen is also Adjunct Professor at Ben-Gurion University (Department of Desalination & Water Treatment, Zuckerberg Institute for Water Research). He was a Visiting Professor at the Technion (1987–1988), at Universitat Rovira i Virgili (Spain 1994), and a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Victoria University (Australia 2006). Dr Cohen is Director of the Water Technology Research (WaTeR), and co-founder of the Center for Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology (CEIN, 2008–2021) that received the 2012 California Governor's Award in Green Chemistry. He received the Clarence (Larry) G. Gerhold Award (2019) and Lawrence K Cecil Award (2003) from the AIChE Separations Division and Environmental Division, respectively, and was elected AIChE Fellow (2009) and Fellow of the North American Membrane Society (2022). In 2008 he received the Ann C Rosenfield Community Partnership Prize for his environmental research, a County of Los Angeles Commendation, a State of California Senate Certificate of Recognition, and a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition (US) for his contribution to legislation to protect public health and dedicated service to the community. Dr Cohen is a recognized expert and technology innovator in water treatment/purification and desalination, membrane separations, environmental impact assessment, toxicity modeling, machine learning and nanoinformatics, with over 270 scholarly publications, five edited books, over 470 conference presentations and 190 invited talks. He is on the Editorial Boards of several Scientific Journals including Desalination, Scientific Data, Water Reuse (IWA Journal), Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology, Water, and J Water Treatment and Desalination. His research has contributed to the development and deployment of advanced flexible, self-adaptive and energy optimal water desalination systems, new membranes and monitoring technology for membrane fouling, mineral scaling and membrane integrity, in addition to models and software for environmental multimedia impact assessment, nanoinformatics and machine learning models of the toxicity of chemicals and engineered nanomaterials. He is also engaged in environmental protection efforts, water reuse, and development of safe drinking water supplies for disadvantaged communities.