GAS HYDRATE IN WATER TREATMENT
Explores current progress in the expanding field of gas hydrate-based desalination
As potable water shortages continue to affect billions of people worldwide, seawater desalination and wastewater treatment have the potential to meet freshwater demands in the near future. Gas hydrate-based desalination, a process which requires CO2 and water as solvent, has become an increasingly popular approach—desalination with hydrates is environmentally friendly and can produce cheaper desalted water than other existing conventional technologies.
Gas Hydrate in Water Treatment: Technological, Economic, and Industrial Aspects provides detailed, up-to-date reference to the application of gas hydrates in wastewater and seawater desalination treatment. Edited by experienced researchers in the field, this comprehensive volume describes the fundamental aspects of desalination and summarizes the latest research on gas hydrate-based desalination. The authors address a broad range of key topics, including issues related to water scarcity, post-treatment of desalinated water using both conventional and new technologies, hydrate-based desalination methods driven by renewable energy sources, and more. *Provides thorough coverage of the technological, waste brine management, economic, and renewable energy and remineralization aspects of gas hydrate-based wastewater treatment *Describes the energetic, economic, and environmental impact of gas hydrate desalination *Explains the core concepts of gas hydrate-based desalination to help readers evaluate the performance of existing desalination processes *Discusses the advantages and challenges of hydrate-based water treatment *Compares conventional and gas hydrate technologies used in water treatment *Reviews the most recent research in gas hydrate-based desalination
Gas Hydrate in Water Treatment: Technological, Economic, and Industrial Aspects is an essential resource for all academics, researchers, process engineers, designers, industry professionals, and advanced students in the field.
Bhajan Lal, PhD, is a Senior Lecturer, Chemical Engineering Department, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP), Malaysia. He is a core research member of the Carbon Dioxide Research Centre at the UTP Institute of Contaminant Management. After receiving his PhD degree from JMI, Central University, India, he worked as postdoctoral research fellow and Research Scientist in USA, Canada, South Africa, Turkey, and Malaysia. His main areas of research interests are gas hydrates and their applications in CO2 capture and storage, natural gas storage, flow assurance, Desalination. He graduated five MSc, seven PhD, and one postdoc students since 2013. He has published 90 peer-reviewed journal papers, 45 conference papers, and 4 book chapters and two books titled Chemical Additives for Gas Hydrates and Application of ionic liquids in Flow assurance. Dr. Lal has secured consultancy projects and delivered short courses on gas hydrate in flow assurance and machine learning in flow assurance. In addition, as project leader, he has secured eight gas hydrate-related research projects worth RM 2.3 million from oil and gas industries, UTP, and the Malaysian Government.
Sirisha Nallakukkala is a Research Fellow and Graduate Assistant at Research Centre for CO2 Capture (RCCO2C), Chemical Engineering Department, Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP), Malaysia. She holds an ME in Chemical Engineering from McNeese State University, USA and is also a recipient of Graduate Academic Scholarship and B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Hyderabad. She has worked as a process engineer and as an academician prior to pursuing her PhD. Her main research areas are desalination, gas hydrates, and separation techniques.
