Overview
- Addresses the corrosion issues facing the conventional and modern water desalination systems
- Discusses the causes and remediation of problems caused by corrosion, scaling, and biofouling in water treatment
- Offers green solutions, thereby minimizing environmental impact while increasing control and productivity of water systems
- Suitable for professionals working with water desalination plants, materials scientists and corrosion engineers
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Corrosion in Desalination
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About this book
- Addresses the corrosion issues facing the conventional and modern water desalination systems;
- Discusses the causes and remediation of problems caused by corrosion, scaling, and biofouling in water treatment;
- Offers green solutions, thereby minimizing environmental impact while increasing control and productivity of water systems;
- Suitable for professionals working with water desalination plants, materials scientists and corrosion engineers.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Ahmad Sorour is Director of the Center of Research Excellencein Corrosion at King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals (KFUPM), Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. He is also Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at KFUPM, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Dr. Sorour received his Ph.D. (2014) degree in Materials Engineering from McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada. He completed his MS (2008) and BS (2005) in Mechanical Engineering at KFUPM, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. His research interests lie in the areas of materials, corrosion, tribology, and coatings. Dr. Sorour has been a member in several funded projects carried out at KFUPM and has taught different undergraduate and graduate courses in Materials Science and Engineering. He supervised many graduate students and has served as a reviewer for many peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Sorour is a member of several professional affiliations such as NACE and ASM as well.
Abdelkader Meroufel received the M.Sc. (2003), and Ph.D. (2006) degrees from La Rochelle University, France. He was assistant professor at La Rochelle (2006-2007) and Jazan University (2009-2012). In between he worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the French Petroleum Institute (IFP), France. Later, he moved to the Saline Water Conversion Corporation (SWCC), the public company operating and maintaining Desalination plants in Saudi Arabia, where he was a Corrosion specialist. In 2014, He was promoted as Head of Corrosion department at Desalination Technologies Research Institute (DTRI). He served as 2nd General Director Deputy from 2016 to 2018. Presently he is working as a Corrosion Researcher at DTRI. He has authored 25 scientific publications. His research interest lies in corrosion science and engineering, advanced materials development and degradation modes.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Corrosion and Fouling Control in Desalination Industry
Editors: Viswanathan S. Saji, Abdelkader A. Meroufel, Ahmad A. Sorour
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34284-5
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Chemistry and Materials Science, Chemistry and Material Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-34283-8Published: 06 February 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-34286-9Published: 06 February 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-34284-5Published: 05 February 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 406
Number of Illustrations: 46 b/w illustrations, 113 illustrations in colour
Topics: Tribology, Corrosion and Coatings, Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films, Water Industry/Water Technologies, Waste Management/Waste Technology, Electrochemistry, Manufacturing, Machines, Tools, Processes