Desalination Engineering: Planning and Design 1st Edition

I have been working in water and desalination in Australia for 38 years, currently with the National Centre of Excellence in Desalination. In assessing the worth of a text book, I like to see a wide range of topics that are well organised by an author who has practical experience. A poor book has a lot of words but little information. Mr Voutchkov's book has a great deal of useful material on a very broad range of subjects, but is concise and has a good list of reference material for those who want more. I found it a pleasure to read. It touches on all the important facets of the planning, design and operation of desalination plants and is well illustrated, interesting and easy to read.To test the practicality of the book, I gave it to our technician Mr George Horvath, a mechanical fitter with more than 15 years' experience in all aspects of reverse osmosis plant design, construction and operation. He said: "Being an experienced desalination practitioner and avid reader of numerous technical publications, I found it difficult to put this book down. It is extremely well segmented from the contents through to the index and it is easy for anyone with limited water treatment knowledge to grasp the basic concepts."So for people involved in research, designing and building plants or developing water policy, and even for those who are not in the water industry but have an interest in the subject, this is a book which contains a wealth of information. Desalination is a large and rapicdly growing industry worldwide and will help sustain the lives of more and more people in the future as population grows and weather and climate become less predictable.

Very poor quality of tables and pictures. More that just "blurred". In some of them you'd need luck if you want to distinguish or read the text inserted. The main text is well structured and technically good though. Strictly, the book, as a reference in desalination, deserves at least a 4-5 star rating, but it is shame what the editor has done with the images. A 2 stars review is even generous.

This book is quite helpful in learning basic engineering of membrane desalination. With the author’s wealth experience in engineering of real membrane desalination plants and pilot testing, this book covers the entire range of membrane desalination engineering including not only review of process but also real plants’ current situation, challenges and specific solutions.This book provides us with the detailed description on water quality characterization of each source of intake, each kind of pretreatment process such as conventional and membrane processes as well as RO process and post treatment. Although the author does not devote much space to RO membrane, this book is quite useful with extensive and practical information based on the author’s actual experiences at plants. In view of the increase in desalination plants constructed all over the world, a larger number of people who engage in the plant projects including engineers, managers and operators could get benefits from the book. In addition, the discussions on discharge management of desalination plants suggest a way for addressing the global environment problems. I would like to recommend this book as reference to engineering, designing, planning and trouble shooting of membrane desalination plants.Dr. Masaru KuriharaFellow of Toray Industries, Inc.Senior Scientific Director of “Mega-ton Water System”, Funding Program for World Leading Innovation R&D on Science & Technology, Japan

This is a college text book and a good book for serious engineers. I don't know if Nickoly Voutchkov is the smartest man in the room, but I know it isn't me. I am glad that at my age I can still follow this stuff. I hope that people can make good use of the information

Helps me understand the desalination world in a much better and structured wat

Terrible quality. The cover was attached upside down, all tables were barely readable.