7th International Conference on Desalination Science and Technology 2025 (DESAL 2025)

Join leading academic researchers, scientists and engineers from desalination and associated industries as well as representatives of government organisations, international agencies and aid organisations to discuss the latest developments in desalination using membranes and other technologies.

The program will include invited plenary lectures, contributed talks and poster sessions highlighting the latest theoretical and applied research, technological and industrial development. Awards will be given to the best oral and poster contribution from student and early career researcher presenters.

Growing population, changing climate and increasing urbanisation require increasing freshwater supply and the sustainable water usage for industries and agriculture is of top priority. One of the most viable solutions is to tap from saline waters and wastewaters. Membrane technologies have been established as the gold standard for desalination to address the global deficit for clean water. However, other technologies are competitive in terms of performance, cost, and impacts.

Innovation is key to reduce the energy consumption and ensure removal of emerging contaminants. This can be achieved through new membranes and materials, robust module and process design, as well as system improvements. We are interested in laboratory results as well as innovations from full-scale facilities. 7th International Conference on Desalination Science and Technology 2025 (DESAL 2025) is the dedicated forum to disseminate cutting-edge research and development in this regard.

Beyond above challenges, environmental concerns are also important for sustainable desalination. Harvesting valuable resources from brine has been a new direction for desalination, by highlighting the critical importance of ion selective membranes. The organising committee welcomes contributions from all fields focusing on desalination and associated issues either in fundamental or applied research and applications. This conference is also open to the representatives of government organisations, international agencies and aid organisations to inform governments and stakeholders on the key progress, research findings and newest development for strategic and policy reference.

Topics include:

• Design, technical, economic and regulatory analyses of full-scale plants

• Energy consumption and energy recovery

• Environmental issues related to desalination

• Hybrid desalination processes

• Membrane desalination processes

• New membrane/material and the impact on desalination performance

• Performance aspects, including causes, consequences and countermeasures of fouling and scaling

• Related systems to desalination such as pre-treatment, post-treatment, brine disposal, and integrated plants

• Renewable energy applications in desalination

• Thermal desalination processes

• Transport and process modeling in desalination

• Electrodialysis desalination process

• Novel desalination technologies and processes

• Recovery of resources from brines and issues related to brine mining

• Resource recovery for a circular economy in water reuse and desalination

• Emerging contaminants using desalination membranes and technologies

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History

• 6th International Conference on Desalination using Membrane Technology

  19-22 November 2023 | Sitges, Spain

• 5th International Conference on Desalination using Membrane Technology 14-17 November 2021 | Online

• 4th International Conference on Desalination using Membrane Technology 1-4 December 2019 | Perth, Australia

• 3rd International Conference on Desalination using Membrane Technology 2-5 April 2017 | Gran Canaria, Spain

• 2nd International Conference on Desalination using Membrane Technology 19-22 July 2015 | Singapore

• 1st International Conference on Desalination using Membrane Technology 7-10 April 2013 | Sitges, Spain

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