IDAWC2019

Call for Papers

The IDA World Congress will feature four days of technical sessions, Leader’s Summit of high-level plenary sessions, business roundtable discussions and academy courses. The Congress will also include an interactive Dialogue Hall for open discussion.

The Congress Technical Program Committee will be co-chaired by four distinguished members of the IDA Board of Directors and two DEWA Executives:

IDA CHAIRMAN: 

Mr. Imad Makhzoumi, Chairman and CEO of ENOIA. UAE

IDA CO-CHAIRMEN: 

Mr.  Fady Juez, Managing Director of Metito Overseas. UAE

Prof. In S. Kim, School of Environmental Sciences & Engineering Gwanjiu Institute of Science & Technology (GIST). South Korea

Mr. Rachid Ghamraoui, Vice President of BESIX ME. UAE

Mr. Nasser Lootah, EVP G (P & W) of DEWA. UAE

Mr. Yousef Gebril, DEWA. UAE

CALL FOR PAPERS - CATEGORIES AND TOPICS:

1. Foundations for Success – Policy, Finance and Market Challenges

• Desalination and Water Reuse Regulation and its impact
• Financing for Desalination and Water Reuse programs
• The role of financial institutions in the desalination industry
• Investments to Accelerate Change
• Economic Uncertainty and implications on our industry
• Public Private Partnerships (P3) Projects

Desalination, Water Reuse and our Wider World

• Water demand and population growth
• 6 Years Away: Addressing 2025’s predicted water scarcity
• The 4th Industrial Revolution and what it will bring
• Water Action Decade 2018-2028
• Stakeholder Cooperation to deliver balanced and sustainable water solutions • Role and Responsibility for Education in Desalination and Water Reuse
• Knowledge

3. Seawater Desalination

• Energy Efficiencies and Recovery
• Membrane: Solutions, Trends and Innovations
• Membrane Fouling, Scaling, Monitoring and Follow-up
• Materials and Corrosion

4. Brackish Water Desalination

• High Recovery Applications and Solutions
• Nanofiltration Applications: Softening, TOC and Color Removal
• Membrane Fouling, Scaling, Monitoring and Follow-up
• Innovative Solutions in Brackish Water
• Low Energy and Low Fouling Membranes

5. Thermal Desalination

• Cogeneration, Hybrid Desalination and dual-purpose plants
• MED vs MSF • Materials and Corrosion
• Post-Treatments for Distilled Waters
• Current and Future Trends for Thermal Applications

6. Pre and Post Treatment Algal Blooms

• Membrane pre-treatment
• Chemical Efficiency and Reuse Applications
• Remineralization and other post-treatment
• Disinfection and its by-products
• Raw and Treated Water Quality

7. Operations and Optimization Energy, Water, Waste nexus

• Smart and Advanced Solutions for Plants and Networks
• Integrated Water Resource Management • Smart Plants and Plant Optimization
• Plant Management and Retrofits
• Membrane Cleaning, Storage and Replacement
• Technology advancements

8. Industrial applications of Desalination and Water Reuse

• Desalination and Water Reuse in major water-using industries: Oil and gas, Refining and petrochemicals, Power generation, Food and beverage, Pharmaceutical, Microelectronics, Pulp and paper and Mining
• Desalination/demineralisation technologies: Ultrapure water (UPW), Seawater desalination and Wastewater desalination
• Zero-liquid discharge (ZLD)
• Growth Areas and Innovations

9. Environment

• Balancing Cost, Health and Environment
• Harmonizing all our natural resources
• Balancing Cost, Health and Environment
• Climate change – what does our industry need to prepare for getting SDG 6 back on track
• Environmental stewardship

10. Innovation

• Disruptive Innovation in Water
• How AI, IoT and IT evolves our world
• Learning from history
• Alternatives – e.g. ultraviolet, graphene filters, toxin eating bacteria, nano-technology
• Making water from other sources
• Process innovation

11. Making Waste Useful

• Water Reuse
• Minimizing Waste
• Waste and by-products
• Cost of waste
• Waste as an alternative resource

12. Renewable-driven desalination

• Innovations in solar and wind powered desalination
• Hybridization; low carbon desalination and carbon foot print
• Integrating desalination with low-carbon grids at large-scale
• Integration of desalination with renewables at small-scale
• How to accelerate deployment of renewable-driven desalination

13. Seawater Mining

• Mineral extraction from seawater and brine
• Innovation in this sector