Preface

Chapter 7 **Adsorption Cycle and Its Hybrid with Multi-Effect**

Chapter 8 **Techno-Economics of Hybrid NF/FO with Thermal**

Chapter 9 **The Expanded Electrodeionization Method for Sewage**

Chapter 10 **Cr(VI) Adsorption Onto Biomass Waste Material-Derived**

Yansheng Li, Zhigang Liu, Ying Wang and Yunze Hui

Muhammad Wakil Shahzad, Kyaw Thu, Ang Li, Azhar Bin Ismail and

Abdel Nasser Mabrouk, Hassan Fath, Mohamed Darwish and

**Desalination 185**

Hassan Abdulrahim

**Reclamation 257**

**Section 4 Special Industrial Application 271**

**Activated Carbon 273**

Dilek Duranoğlu and Ulker Beker

**Desalination Plants 215**

Kim Choon Ng

**VI** Contents

The Intech book series of *Desalination, Trends and Technologies* (2011), *Expanding Issues in De‐ salination* (2011), *Advancing Desalination* (2012), and this volume of *Desalination Update* illus‐ trates the growing research and development activities in the field of desalination of water. The chapters in this book also show the close link in the supply of water and supply of pow‐ er. Power is needed to desalinate water, and water is needed to produce power via steam and cooling water. As the world is becoming increasingly in need of water and power, the education of generations of new workers in these technologies makes the publications of these books of rising importance.

Students and specialists alike will find branching strands in this field of development wor‐ thy of dedication of careers. Never has shrinking essential resources and exploding needs confront mankind as much as water. Excellent reviews in this book provide keywords, con‐ cepts, and current knowledge and status of practice useful for teaching and continued evo‐ lution.

> **Dr. Robert Y. Ning** Vice President, Science and Business Development, King Lee Technologies, USA

**Reverse Osmosis, Nanofiltration, Membrane Distillation**
