Important Information for DME Members:

The next General Assembly will take place on May 29th, 2013 at BEW, Duisburg, Germany!

NEW! Free DME E-Learning online - DME جديد! تعليم إلكتروني مجاني من

DME e.V. offers the first online-seminar for "seawater desalination".

تقدم DME  أول محاضرة إلكترونية متوفرة على الشبكة عن تحلية مياه البحر

The seminar is available in German, English and Arabic.

Do you want to know how "seawater desalination" works? Then you should klick here.

«  .هل تريد أن تعرف كيف تتم تحلية مياه البحر؟ إذن عليك أن تنقر هنا

Attention students from High-Schools and Universities as well as Young Professionals! Call for Proposals for the TUM DeSal Challenge 2013 is open now!

The TUM DeSal Challenge 2013 is a unique initiative of the Institute for Thermodynamics at Technische Universität München. Biannually, students are invited to build their own energy-self-sufficient desalination plant in order to find new solutions for providing potable water for the world.

Students from High-Schools and Universities as well as Young Professionals (max. 5 years job experience) are invited to hand in their innovative concepts!

The timeline for TUM DeSal Challenge 2013 is:

 

Call for Proposals:	running
Deadline for Application:	February 6th, 2013
Announcement of Participating Teams:	March 1st, 2013
TUM DeSal Conference:	June 27th, 2013
Finals:	June 28th and 29th, 2013

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TUM Challenge

Meeting the worldwide demand for energy and water is the biggest challenge of this century. The Technische Universität München (TUM) offers for the second time a conference in the area of desalination focusing on strategies and technologies with low impact on the environment. This event will be hosted at the Technische Universität München in Garching near Munich on 27.06.2013. Additionally the TU Munich will offer a session focusing on desalination technologies applied for waste water treatment. The conference is accompanied by the TUM Desal Challenge. You can find more information on our website www.desalchallenge.com or www.desalination.eu. The conference is free of charge.

 

Abstract submission deadline:	31.03.2013
Deadline for submission of presentations:	01.06.2013
Conference date:	27.06.2013

DME facilitated the implementation of German technology to green the desert

 

Network of DME at work! DME gathered industrial partners to realize the second solar driven thermal desalination plant, this time in Qatar. The first commercial plant of this kind has been built in Australia about one year ago. Since then tomatoes are cultivated in the connected greenhouse which is irrigated by desalted water and powered by the sun.

 

The latest German Solar Powered (CSP) Thermal Desalination Plant (MED-TVC) feeding greenhouses is situated in Qatar today. The first results are cucumbers!  << Read more >>

 

http://www.bellona.org/articles/articles_2012/SFP_pilot_tour

 

http://saharaforestproject.com/news/updates/the-first-cucumber-harvested-at-the-sahara-forest-project-pilot-facility-in-qatar/

  

DME represented on the 2012 Gulf Environmental and Sustainable Development Forum (GEF) in Jeddah

The 2012 Gulf Environmental and Sustainable Development Forum (GEF) dedicated ample space on its closing day to the analysis of advanced water strategies and reuse in the MENA region.

Robert Flaechsig, member of the Advisory Council of DME e.V., outlined critical factors that influence the choice of supply strategies and desalination technologies and considered theoretical, technological and practical aspects in the combination with alternative energies.