Advances in Desalination:
Processes, Energy, and Materials
by
Dr Gary L. Amy
Director of the Water Desalination and Reuse Center,
Professor of Environmental Engineering ,
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
Date
: 14 January 2014
Time
: 3.15pm
Venue : Connect@WaterHub
Level 2 Auditorium
80 Toh Guan Road East
Singapore 608575
Registration Details:
Admission is free and prior registration
is required.
Please register by 7th Jan 2014 with
Ms Nuraini Osman at 68852534 or
email to [email protected]
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This presentation will address recent
advances in low-energy desalination
processes including forward osmosis (FO),
membrane distillation (MD), adsorption
desalination (AD), various process hybrids,
and various application niches; renewable
energy-driven desalination including solar,
wind. geothermal, and solar-geothermal
combined cycle; and new membrane
materials such as aquaporins and
graphene.
SUPPORTED BY:
Dr GARY L. AMY
Director,
Water Desalination and Reuse Center, and Professor of
Environmental Engineering, King Abdullah University of
Science and Technology (KAUST), Saudi Arabia
Gary L. Amy is Director of the Water Desalination and Reuse
Center, and Professor of Environmental Engineering, at the King
Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia. Prior to KAUST, he
was Professor of Water Supply Engineering at the UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water
Education in the Netherlands, where he held a joint appointment at the Technical
University of Delft. Formerly, he was Professor of Environmental Engineering at the
University of Colorado at Boulder (USA) and, earlier, at the University of Arizona (USA).
Dr. Amy’s main areas of expertise are drinking water treatment and wastewater
reclamation/reuse, with specific expertise in membrane rejection and fouling, selective
adsorption, natural organic matter characterization, disinfection by-product formation and
control, and natural systems. At KAUST, his major research emphasis has been on lowenergy seawater desalination technologies, energy-harvesting wastewater treatment
processes, and managed aquifer recharge for wastewater reuse. At UNESCO-IHE, he was
involved in various European Union (EU) and other sponsored projects on membranebased desalination, membrane bioreactors, natural drinking water and wastewater
treatment processes, and organic and inorganic micropollutants. Over a career of 35 years,
he has published over almost 400 articles in refereed publications, and supervised almost
50 PhD students.
Dr. Amy is a member of the International Water Association (IWA), the International
Desalination Association (IDA), and the the American Water Works Association (AWWA).
He serves on the editorial boards of Water Supply and Technology (IWA), International
Ozone Association (IOA), and the Journal of Drinking Water Engineering (on-line). He has
received best paper awards from the Journal AWWA and the Journal of the Water
Environment Federation. His PhD students have received best dissertation awards from the
AWWA and the IOA. He was recipient of a Fulbright Award for Germany (2003-2004), was
invited as Distinguished Lecturer, Korea Brain 21 Program (2002), and was appointed
Visiting Scholar at Kyoto University, Japan (2001).