Desalination Institute DME
Desalination Institute DME is committed to concentrate and structure know-how existing in desalination with focus on the economy, sciences and politics. Globally we provide services, experiences and offering further education on water desalination. We care of Water - Desalination - Resources. Since 2008 we do independently serve customer requests globally and locally in desalination projects and technology know how. We are advising Public Institutions, Insurances, Lenders, Banks, Investors and Industry. Our technology know how range starts with evaporation, passes membranes and ions and reaches bio engineering. More than 52 desalination technologies are on our radar today. Customers from more than 40 countries requested our services preparing their desalination future. We are a think tank specialised in desalination.
Company details
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- Business Type:
- Service provider
- Industry Type:
- Water Resources
- Market Focus:
- Globally (various continents)
- Year Founded:
- 2008
This company also provides solutions for other industrial applications.
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Internship
You are a student and looking for an internship for your regular studies (compulsory internship). You speak and write fluent English and have fast access to the Internet, well. You also need to know basics in desalination and have a very high intrinsic interest in research and development in and around desalination and its technologies.
In close cooperation with the student DVGW group AquaSmarTech of the University of Duisburg Essen we organize appropriate compulsory internships. You can learn more about our internship by contacting the Executive Board of AquaSmarTech and apply there for our internships.
Our internships are characterized by flexibility in terms of time and place, a high degree of self-responsibility and a very deep insight into the technologies and markets of desalination.
Classification of Desalination Technology
Desalination technology is used by humans since thousands of years. Being in the desert surrounded by sand and rocks or being on the sea sailing through salty waters, always fresh water is needed every day to keep the human body in a balanced hydrate mode.
Nature started using desalination processes from the very first moment. Different concentration levels drive everything alive on our planet. Humans started using first evaporation and condensation processes to purify unusable water. In the last century the number of processes to desalinate water and other liquids has gone through a very big development. New processes have been found, existing processes have been improved.
Overviewing all known desalination processes of today we may find a large number in a lot of science areas. In order to give this convolute of technology a systematic structure a larger group of desalination experts and scientists developed a Classification of Desalinaiton Technology (CDT) system.
This Classification of Desalinaiton Technoogy system is based on the natural working principles of chemistry, physics and biology. It starts as low as electrochemistry and nuclear physics. From here on it is building up its structure. Under the five main science fields 20 subordinated science areas have been found describing all natural working principles in desalination systems.
In order to structure all known desalination technologies a general structure was build up to the Classification of Desalinaiton Technology system (CDT):
- The first classification level does divide in transient phase and stable phase technologies.
- The second level classes represent the separation processes of desalination technologies.
- The third level classes show the main technology, in some cases without further structure.
- The fourth level classes are split in advanced sub-desalination technologies.
In total there were 51 desalination technologies found and classified inside CDT.
As of today the used technologies mainly are Multi-Stage Flash and Reverse Osmosis they can be found within the structure at the third level.
Everybody is free to make use of this CDT but is asked to make a reference to DME GmbH on behalf of all people being involved, please.
We will keep developing CDT and you are free to participate in this discussion!