With the seminar Introduction to seawater desalination, technology - markets - environment in Duisburg, DME started its program of training and further education of the year 2005.

This seminar was primarily aimed at representatives from politics, industry and science who want to acquire both techical and market-related fundamental know-how on this significant branch of industry.

Selected papers by specialist experts gave an overview of the most common seawater desalination processes and their applications and present markets and potentials, environmental aspects as well as trends of research and development.

ISBN-No.: 978-3-86861-006-2

Fouling and scaling is one of the biggest problems in seawater desalination especially for MED and MSF plants. Bonded deposits reduce the effectiveness of the plants and lead to expensive but necessary cleaning processes. This seminar gives both an overview and detailed information about ways and dead ends of chemicals in the seawater desalination.

ISBN-No.: 978-3-86861-005-5

The best desalination plant can't work properly if the supplied seawater has not been "pretreated" very well (filtered and chemically treated). The arising damages easily sum-up to milllions of dollars. That is the reason why DME dedicated its second seminar in 2005 to this subject.

ISBN-No.: 978-3-86861-004-8

Renewable Energies are playing a bigger role every day. The use of wind - sun and other renewable energies sources (RES) showed new already proofed ways, market entries and R&D activities.

ISBN-No. 978-3-86861-003-1