**Meet the editors**

Dr. Murat Eyvaz is an assistant professor at the Environmental Engineering Department, Gebze Technical University. He received his BSc degree in Environmental Engineering from the Kocaeli University in Turkey in 2004. He completed his MSc and PhD degrees in 2013 in Environmental Engineering from the Gebze Institute of Technology (former name of GTU). He completed his

postdoctoral research from the National Research Center on Membrane Technologies in 2015. His research interests are water and wastewater treatment, electrochemical processes, filtration systems/membrane processes, spectrophotometric and chromatographic analyses. He has coauthored numerous journal articles and conference papers and has taken part in many national projects. He serves as an editor in 30 journals and a reviewer in 100 journals indexed in SCI, SCI-E and other indexes.

Prof. Ebubekir Yüksel is a faculty member at the Environmental Engineering Department, Gebze Technical University. He received his bachelor degree in Civil Engineering from the İstanbul Technical University in 1992. He completed his graduate work (MSc degree in 1995 and PhD degree in 2001) from the İstanbul Technical University. His research interests are applications

in water and wastewater treatment facilities, electrochemical treatment process and filtration systems at laboratory and pilot scale, watershed management, flood control, deep sea discharges, membrane processes, spectrophotometric analyses, chromatographic analyses and geographic information systems. He has coauthored numerous journal articles and conference papers and has taken part in many national projects. He has produced more than 25 peer-reviewed publications in journals indexed in SCI, SCI-E and other indexes.

Contents

**Preface IX**

Najim

**Section 1 Desalination Applications 1**

**Cases in Mexico 3**

Gustavo Adolfo Fimbres-Weihs

**Using Capacitive Deionization 17**

Chapter 1 **Using Desalination to Improve Agricultural Yields: Success**

Chapter 2 **Activated Carbon Cloth for Desalination of Brackish Water**

Chapter 3 **Energy Recovery in Capacitive Deionization Technology 37**

Chapter 4 **Computational Study of Liquid Film Condensation with the**

Chapter 5 **Distilled Water Production by Vacuum Heat Pump 77** Liu Bin, Cai Ling, Li Tianyin and Sajid Muhammad

Chapter 6 **Renewable Energy-Driven Desalination Hybrids for**

**Section 2 Renewable Energy in Desalination 93**

Burhan and Kim Choon Ng

**Sustainability 95**

**Presence of Non-Condensable Gas in a Vertical Tube 55**

Hisham A. Maddah and Mohammed A. Shihon

Villegas and Francisco J. Álvarez-González

Germán Eduardo Dévora-Isiordia, María del Rosario Martínez-Macías, Ma. Araceli Correa-Murrieta, Jesús Álvarez-Sánchez and

Alberto M. Pernía, Miguel J. Prieto, Juan A. Martín-Ramos, Pedro J.

Adil Charef, M'barek Feddaoui, Abderrahman Nait Alla and Monssif

Muhammad Wakil Shahzad, Doskhan Ybyraiymkul, Muhammad
