The International Journal on the Science and Technology of Desalting and Water Purification

Desalination is an inter-disciplinary journal publishing high quality papers on desalination materials, processes and related technologies.

Desalination welcomes submissions detailing work that is clearly connected to water desalting including applications of desalination to seawater, groundwater and waste waters, such as thermal, membrane, sorption and hybrid processes.
Design, technical, economic and regulatory analyses of full-scale plants.
Energy consumption and energy recovery;
Environmental issues related to desalination;
Hybrid desalination processes;
Membrane desalination processes;
New membrane/material and the impact on desalination performance;
Performance aspects, for example causes, consequences and countermeasures of fouling and scaling;
Recovery of resources from brines;
Related systems to desalination such as pre-treatment, post-treatment, integrated plants and brine disposal;
Renewable energy applications in desalination;
Thermal desalination processes;
Transport and process modelling in desalination;
Electrodialysis desalination process;
Novel desalination technologies and processes.
Recovery of resources from brines and issues related to brine mining;
Resource recovery for a circular economy in water reuse and desalination;
Hydrogen with water industries;
Emerging contaminants using desalination membranes and technologies;


*Authors are requested to complete a Review Proposal Form for Editorial approval prior to submission of the review article. Proposals can be submitted to Prof. Tao He (het@sari.ac.cn) and Prof. Ho Kyong Shon (Hokyong.Shon-1@uts.edu.au).

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Editor-in-Chief
Nidal Hilal, PhD
Swansea University College of Engineering, Swansea, United Kingdom membrane separation, Desalination, water treatment
SI Editor
Ho Kyong Shon, PhD
University of Technology Sydney School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Broadway, Australia Forward osmosis, Membrane distillation, Mixed matrix membrane, Resource recovery, Membrane technology
Editors
Amy E. Childress, PhD
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States water treatment, wastewater reclamation, desalination, membrane processes, reverse osmosis
Jaeweon Cho, PhD
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology School of Urban and Environmental Engineering, Ulsan, Korea, Republic of
Mikel Duke
Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia
Tao He
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Membrane fabrication; resource recovery using membrane extraction/ adsorption; treatment of high salinity waste (Membrane distillation/Forward osmosis); acid/base/solvent resistant nanofiltration membranes
Mohamed Khayet
University Complutense of Madrid, Department of Structure of Matter, Thermal Physics and Electronics, Madrid, Spain Membrane Science and Nanotechnology. Desalination and water treatment. Advanced membranes. Solar energy
Ho Kyong Shon, PhD
University of Technology Sydney School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Broadway, Australia Forward osmosis, Membrane distillation, Mixed matrix membrane, Resource recovery, Membrane technology
Advisory Board
Menachem Elimelech
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Anthony Gordon Fane
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore Desalination; membranes and water; membrane bioreactors; fouling; energy issues
Ahmad Fauzi Ismail
University of Technology Malaysia School of Chemical & Energy EngineeringAdvanced Membrane Technology Research Centre, Johor Bahru, Malaysia Membrane Technology, Gas Separation, Reverse Osmosis, Water Desalination, Nanofiltration, Water Treatment, Nanostructured Materials
Anastasios J. Karabelas
Centre for Research and Technology-Hellas, Thessaloniki, Greece
Raphael Semiat
Technion Israel Institute of Technology Faculty of Chemical Engineering, Haifa, Israel
Editorial Board
M. Biesheuvel
Wetsus, Leeuwarden, Netherlands
A. Casañas
Dow Chemical Iberica SL, Madrid, Spain Water treatment, water desalination, environment, risk prevention
Y. Cohen
University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States
E. Drioli
IRMERC-CHR,Inst. on Membrane & Modelling of Chem. Reactors,Università della Calabria, Arcavacata di Rende, Italy
N. Ghaffour
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
S. Gray
Victoria University Institute for Sustainable Industries and Liveable Cities, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Membrane technology, wastewater treatment, membrane fabrication
R. Hashaikeh
New York University - Abu Dhabi Campus, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
D. Hasson
Technion Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel High recovery desalination processes, Donnan dialysis as a new water purification technique, Desalinated water Re-mineralization processes, Scaling and anti-scaling mechanisms, Electro-chemical scale removal techniques
S.K. Hong, PhD
Korea University School of Civil Environmental and Architectural Engineering, Seongbuk-gu, Korea, Republic of Seawater desalination, Osmosis membranes (RO, FO, PRO), Membrane fouling control, Membrane integrated water treatment process, Elector-based Desalination (CDI)
N. Kabay
Ege University, İzmir, Turkey
M. Kurihara
Toray Industries Inc, Chuo-Ku, Japan Saline Water Conversion,
C. Lee
Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Ulsan, Korea, Republic of
J. H. Lienhard V
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
X. Lu
Hainan Tropical Ocean University, Sanya, China Wastewater treatment and reuse, Membrane technology, Disposal of residual sludge and solid wastes, Catalysts, Treatment of leachate
J. McCutcheon
University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States
B. Mi
University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States Environmental Engineering
I. Mujtaba
University of Bradford, Bradford, United Kingdom
V Naddeo, PhD
University of Salerno Department of Civil Engineering Sanitary Environmental Engineering Division (SEED), Fisciano, Italy Contaminants of emerging concern, Electrochemical process, Membrane Bioreactors (MBRs), Sustainable Desalination, Water-Energy-Nexus
K. C. Ng
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia
L. D. Nghiem, PhD, MEdu
University of Technology Sydney, Faculty of Engineering and IT, Centre for Technology in Water and Wastewater, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Broadway, New South Wales, Australia Membrane bioreactor, Pressure driven membrane processes, Forward osmosis, Membrane distillation, Facilitated transport membrane, Membrane electrolysis, Desalination, Water reuse, Biological wastewater treatment, Anaerobic digestion, Emerging organic contaminants, Energy and resource recovery from waste and wastewater
T. Pankratz
Texas Living Waters Project, Houston, Texas, United States
S. Sarp
Swansea University, Swansea, United Kingdom
H. K. Shon, PhD
University of Technology Sydney School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Broadway, Australia Forward osmosis, Membrane distillation, Mixed matrix membrane, Resource recovery, Membrane technology
V.M. Starov
Loughborough University, Loughborough, United Kingdom
C. Y. Tang, PhD
University of Hong Kong Department of Civil Engineering, Hong Kong, Hong KongDesalination, Water reuse, Fouling, Membrane characterization, Membrane process
S. Vigneswaran
University of Technology Sydney School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Broadway, Australia
R. Wang
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore
X. Yang
Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia