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Subject headings used by the Library of Congress, under which books on desalination can be located in most card, book, and online catalogs, include the following:
Awerbuch, Leon. Desalination technology: an overview.
In The Politics of scarcity: water in the Middle East. Edited by
Joyce R. Starr and Daniel C. Stoll. Boulder, Westview Press, 1988.
p. 53-61. Eisenberg, Talbert N., and E. Joe Middlebrooks. Reverse
osmosis treatment of drinking water. Boston, Butterworths, c1986.
271 p. Reverse osmosis technology: applications for high-purity-water
production. Edited by Bipin S. Parekh. New York, M. Dekker, c1988.
516 p. (Chemical industries, v. 35) Saline water processing: desalination and treatment
of seawater, brackish water, and industrial waste water. Edited
by Hans-Günter Heitmann. Weinheim, Federal Republic of Germany;
New York, VCH, c1990. 332 p. Spiegler, K. S., and Alan D. K. Laird, eds. Principles
of desalination. 2nd ed. New York, Academic Press, 1980. 2 v.
Desalination technology: developments and practice.
Edited by Andrew Porteous. London, New York, Applied Science Publishers;
New York, sole distributor in the USA and Canada, Elsevier Science
Pub. Co., c1983. 271 p. Dupont, R. Ryan, Talbert N. Eisenberg, and E. Joe
Middlebrooks. Reverse osmosis in the treatment of drinking water.
Logan, Utah, Utah Water Research Laboratory, Utah State University,
1982. 103 p. (Water quality series, UWRL/Q-82/05) Electrodialysis (ED) & electrodialysis reversal
(EDR) technology. Edited by Floyd H. Meller. Watertown, Mass., Ionics,
Inc., 1984. 66 p. Measurements and control in water desalination. Edited
by Noam Lior. Amsterdam, New York, Elsevier, 1986. 470 p. (Desalination
and water purification, v. 2) Synthetic membrane processes: fundamentals and water
applications. Edited by Georges Belfort. Orlando, Fla., Academic
Press, 1984. 552 p. Theory and practice of reverse osmosis. Editor, R.
Bakish. Englewood, N.J., International Desalination Association,
1985. 359 p. (International Desalination Association. Monograph,
no. 1)
Burns and Roe. Universal design. Washington, U.S.
Office of Saline Water; U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1969. 5 v. Desalination and water re-use technologies in Japan,
annual report ... Tokyo, Japan, Water Re-Use Promotion Center, 1981-
annual. Khan, Arshad Hassan. Desalination processes and multistage
flash distillation practice. Amsterdam, New York, Elsevier, 1986.
596 p. (Desalination and water purification, 1) Saline water use and disposal opportunities, special
report: Colorado River water quality improvement program. United
States Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Lower
Colorado Region, Upper Colorado Region, Colorado River Water Quality
Office. Denver, The Bureau, 1981. 165 p. in various pagings. Schutte, C. F. Desalination: a South African perspective.
Pretoria, Water Research Commission, 1983. 111 p.
AWWA Seminar on Membrane Processes, Principles and
Practices, Orlando, Fla., 1988. Proceedings. AWWA Seminar on Membrane
Processes, Principles and Practices, Annual Conference, Orlando,
Fla., June 19, 1988; sponsored by the Water Quality Division. Denver,
American Water Works Association, c1988. 76 p. Desalination and water re-use: proceedings of the
twelfth international symposium. Miriam Balaban (editor). Rugby,
UK, Institution of Chemical Engineers; New York, Hemisphere Pub.
Corp., c1991. 4 v. (Institution of Chemical Engineers, Symposium
series, no. 125) Desalination in South Florida. Proceedings of a seminar
held at MacArthur's Holiday Inn, August 21, 1987, Palm Beach Gardens,
Florida. Editor, O. K. Buros. Sponsored by the National Water Supply
Improvement Association (NWSIA) and the South Florida Water Management
District (SFWMD). [s.l., 1987?] 198 p. National desalination conferences: proceedings of
the fifteenth conference: water desalination and re-use, Ashqelon,
Israel, 30th May-1st June, 1983. David Ashboren, editor. Jerusalem,
Ministry of Science and Development, National Council for Research
and Development, 1983. 355 leaves. 1990 biennial conference proceedings. National Water
Supply Improvement Association. Walt Disney World Village, Florida,
August 19-23, 1990. Sponsored by the International Desalination
Association, California Association of Reclamation Entities of Water,
Orange County Public Utilities Division, and South Florida Water
Management District. [s.l., 1990?] 2 v.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Office of Saline
Water special report on status of desalting. Prepared for the PSIAC
comprehensive framework study by Oak Ridge National Laboratory and
Office of Saline Water. Washington, U.S. Dept. of the Interior;
U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1970 [i.e., 1971] 111 p. United Nations. Dept. of Economic and Social Affairs.
First United Nations desalination plant operation survey; a technical
and economic analysis of the performance of desalination plants
in operation. New York, United Nations, 1969. 122 p. (United Nations.
[Document] ST/ECA/112) United Nations. Dept. of Economic and Social Affairs.
Second United Nations desalination plant operation survey: a technical
and economic analysis of the performance of desalination plants
in operation. Department of Economic and Social Affairs. New York,
United Nations, 1973. 126 p. (United Nations. [Document] ST/ECA/171)
United States. Bureau of Land Management. Salinity
control on BLM-administered public lands in the Colorado River Basin:
a report to Congress. U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of
Land Management. Washington, The Bureau, 1987.
Boleszny, Ivan. Desalination of water. Adelaide,
State Library of South Australia, 1969. v. 1. 214 p. (South Australia.
State Library. Research service bibliographies, ser. 4, no. 120)
Lockerby, Robert W. Desalination technology. Monticello,
Ill., Vance Bibliographies, 1981. 12 p. (Public administration series--bibliography,
P-668) Merkaz le-meda' tekhnologi u-mada'i. Literature on
saline water conversion available in the Library of the Sea-Water
Conversion Commission, as of Jan. 1970. 5th cumulative ed., covers
1959-1969. Tel-Aviv, National Council for Research and Development,
Center of Scientific and Technological Information, 1970. 1 v. (various
pagings) Schamus, J. J. Bibliography of saline water conversion
literature. Washington, U.S. Dept. of the Interior, 1965. 1 v. (various
pagings) (Office of Saline Water. Research and development progress
report, no. 146.) Seitkurbanov, Sapargel'dy. Opresnenie solenykh vod.
Ashkhabad, U.S.S.R., Ylyim, 1977. 169 p. Siddiqui, M. A. Vakil. Selected and annotated bibliography
on saline water conversion. Kuwait, Kuwait University, Libraries
Dept., 1972. 202 p. (Kuwait University. Libraries Dept. Bibliographic
series, no. 5)
Dissertations can be located by using the following indexes located in the Library's Main Reading Room: SELECTED DISSERTATIONS Assouad, Yannick Therese. Combined heat and mass transfer
as applied to desalination and liquid desicant cooling systems.
3 microfiche, 4 x 6 in. Byrd, Larry Wayne. Freezer model using a population
balance approach for steady-state, direct-contact, secondary refrigerant,
freeze desalination. 2 microfiche, 4 x 6 in. Carta, Giorgio. Periodic countercurrent operation
of sorption processes applied to water desalination with thermally
regenerable ion-exchange resins. 3 microfiche, 4 x 6 in. Irwin, Kenneth James. A study of concentration polarization
and solution-membrane interactions in the electrodialytic desalination
process. 5 microfiche, 4 x 6 in.
Abstracting and indexing services that index relevant journal articles and other literature are listed below. Some suggested terms are given as aids in searching. The following indexes are available in most public and college libraries:
Abdel-Aal, H. K., and others. Recovery of mineral
salts and potable water from desalting plant effluents by evaporation.
Part II. Proposed simulation system for salt recovery. Separation
science and technology, v. 25, no. 4, 1990: 437-461. Abdullina, N. D., and P. A. Dzhubalieva. Experimental
investigations of solar desalinization units of various designs.
Applied solar energy, v. 25, no. 6, 1989: 58-60. Caouris, Y. G., E. T. Kantsos, and N. G. Zagouras.
Economic aspects of low-temperature multi-effect desalination plants.
Desalination, v. 71, Feb. 1989: 177-201. Darwish, M. A., M. Abdel-Jawad, and Awad El-Hadek.
The mechanically driven heat recovery system of vapour compression
desalters. Heat recovery systems & CHP, v. 10, no. 5/6, 1990:
447-456. El-Nashar, Ali M. Computer simulation of the performance
of a solar desalination plant. Solar energy, v. 44, no. 4, 1990:
193-205. Hsu, Tah-Ben, and Robert L. Pigford. Salt removal
from water by continuous ion exchange using thermal regeneration.
Industrial & engineering chemistry research, v. 28, Sept. 1989:
1345-1351. Jabboury, Bassam G., and Mohamed A. Darwish. The effect
of the operating parameters of heat recovery steam generators on
combined cycle/sea-water desalination plant performance. Heat recovery
systems & CHP, v. 10, no. 3, 1990: 255-267. Özta an, Aysun, and Kemal Taner. A solar desalination
plant for conditions in Turkey. Solar & wind technology, v.
6, no. 3, 1989: 213-216. Punzi, Vito L., Gregory P. Muldowney, and Thomas J.
Hull. An evaluation of reverse osmosis solute rejection model performance
at elevated pressure and high feed concentration. Industrial &
engineering chemistry research, v. 29, Feb. 1990: 278-282. Radchenko, Yu. M., M. I. Ponomarev, and V. D. Grebenyuk.
Water demineralization in electro-ionite apparatus with continuous
ionite regeneration. Soviet journal of water chemistry and technology,
v. 11, no. 8, 1989: 95-98. Satre, M. D., N. D. Ghatge, and M. P. S. Ramani. Aromatic
polyamide-hydrazides for water desalination. I. Syntheses and RO
membrane performance. Journal of applied polymer science, v. 41,
no. 3/4, 1990: 697-712. Slesarenko, V., and A. Shtim. Determination of seawater
enthalpy and entropy during the calculation of thermal desalination
plants. Desalination, v. 71, Feb. 1989: 203-210. Tapping seawater in China. Water/engineering &
management, v. 136, Dec. 1989: 12-13. Watson, B. M., and C. D. Hornburg. Low-energy membrane
nanofiltration for removal of color, organics and hardness from
drinking water supplies. Desalination, v. 72, Apr./May 1989: 11-22.
Wu, Yonglie, and E. Drioli. The behaviour of membrane
distillation of concentrated aqueous solution. Water treatment,
v. 4, no. 4, 1989: 399-415. Zagouras, N. G., and E. T. Kantsos. Engineering relations
for economic production functions of solar low-temperature multi-effect
desalination. Desalination, v. 78, Oct. 1990: 381-387.
Technical Reports and other types of literature are indexed in the following guides:
The following selected technical reports are available in the microform collection of the Science Reading Room. They may also be purchased from the National Technical Information Service, Springfield, Virginia 22161. Conceptual design and cost study for a dual-purpose
nuclear-electric reverse osmosis seawater conversion plant. San
Francisco, Calif., Bechtel National, Inc., Apr. 1979. 130 p. Riley, R. L., and others. Research and development
on a spiral-wound membrane system for single-stage seawater desalination.
San Diego, Calif., Universal Oil Products Co., Fluid Systems Div.,
Oct. 1979. 284 p. SOLERAS (Program). Solar energy water desalination
project, rural solar applications. Final report, executive summary.
Kansas City, Mo., Published for the United States-Saudi Arabian
Joint Program for Cooperation in the Field of Solar Energy (SOLERAS)
by the program operating agent, Midwest Research Institute; Springfield,
Va., Available from the National Technical Information Service,
U.S. Dept. of Commerce, 1985? 83 p.
Selected materials available in the Science Reading Room pamphlet boxes include the following: Akkad, Adnan A. Conservation in the Arabian Gulf countries. In American Water Works Association. Journal, v. 82, May 1990: 40-50. American Water Works Association. Water Desalting and Reuse Committee. Committee report: membrane desalting technologies. In American Water Works Association. Journal, v. 81, Nov. 1989: 30-37. Desalination. In Meteorology and oceanography of the Middle East. Washington, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, National Oceanographic Data Center, March 1991. (Library and Information Services Division. Current references, 91-3) p. 7-44. El-Saie, M. H. Ali. Desalination at the crossroads. Desalination, v. 78, Oct. 1990: 305-311. Friedman, Roberta. Seawater to drink. Technology review, v. 92, Aug./Sept. 1989: 14-15. Jawad, M. A. Future for desalination by reverse osmosis. Desalination, v. 72, Apr./May 1989: 23-28. Smith, Dennis. From brine to sublime. Public works, v. 121, Dec. 1990: 35-37. Suri, R. K., A. M. R. Al-Marafie, A. A. Al-Homoud, and G. P. Maheshwari. Cost-effectiveness of solar water production. Desalination, v. 71, Feb. 1989: 165-175.
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