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Water at Middle East Electricity
One-Day Conference Programme
Monday 12th February, 2007
Dubai International Exhibition Centre
Masterclass Agenda
Monday, 12th February
| 8:30 |
Registration / Coffee
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| 9:00 |
Speed Networking
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| 9:30 |
Masterclass 1: Desalination Innovations & Trends
- Hear of the latest innovations and trends in the desalination.
Tom Pankratz, Editor, Water Desalination Report
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| 10:10 |
Coffee Break
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| 10:40 |
Masterclass 2: MED vs. MSF; and Seawater Reverse Osmosis and SWRO
- Compare the cost-effective solutions of MED and MSF in Gulf desalination plants.
Corrado Sommariva, Divisional Director, desalination & Water Treatment Group, Mott MacDonald.
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| 11.20 |
Masterclass 3: Large Scale & Large Diameter Desalination
- Examining how improvements in membrane, and pretreatment technology lead to an increase in the capacity and scale of SWRO plants.
Lisa Henthorne, Global Desalination Director, CH2M Hill
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| 12:00 |
Masterclass 4: Solar Thermal Seawater Desalination
- Reviewing the challenges of solar desalination and its application.
Dr. Julian Blanco, Senior Researcher, Spanish Ministry of Education and Science, CIEMAT.
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| 12:40 |
Masterclass 5: Public/Private Partnerships in Developing Large Scale Irrigation
- Explore the structural, environmental and financial challenges posed by large scale irrigation projects.
Dr.Mohamed Safwat Abdel-Dayem, Professor Emeritus, National Water Research Council, Egypt
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| 13:15 |
Lunch
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| 14:30 |
Masterclass 6: Desalination Intake and Pretreatment Options
- Understand how the effectiveness and lifespan of a SWRO plant will depend on the quality of the water in preventing scaling, biofouling and membrane plugging.
Tom Pankratz, Editor, Water Desalination Report
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| 15:15 |
Masterclass 7: Desalination Update; Fujairah and Barka, Oman
- Learn how the use of hybrid plants using both thermal and RO technologies and public/private finance to fund large scale desalination plants are the wave of the future.
Francois Dao, Regional Director, Degremont, SUEZ Environment.
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| 16:00 |
Coffee Break
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| 16:30 |
Masterclass 8: The Importance of the Water Reuse in Countries with Poor Water Resources
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| 17:15 |
Masterclass 9:Membrane Bioreactors in practice
- Balancing the energy consumption, chemical consumption, membrane replacement rate and system availability with capital costs.
Chris Jeffery, Regional Sales Manager UAE, Bahrain & Pakistan, GE Water & Process Technologies, ZENON
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| 18:00 |
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