WIN Watsan Webinar 2020 Session5 IIT Gandhinagar Desalination and other water technologies
Channel: WIN Foundation
Date: 02/10/2020

WIN WATSAN WEBINAR SERIES 2020 
Innovations and Empowerment for Sustainable WATSAN Solutions 
co, 1st October 2020 Thu 5:30pm to 7:00pm 1ST 

Water treatment and desalination: Addressing bottlenecks in energy and materials 
by Centre for Sustainable Development, IIT Gandhinagar

Water treatment technologies need to be cost and energy efficient as well as ecologically sustainable in order to have a wide impact. Desalination technologies are particularly attractive to coastal communities since they have the potential to make seawater accessible as a source for potable use. A wide range of desalination technologies exist today. This session covers these technologies and compare their energy requirements on an even footing. General principles and methods to improve desalination energy efficiency are discussed along with fundamental limitations on such improvements. Some novel scalable desalination technologies are highlighted. 

In addition, innovations in materials for water treatment such as biodegradable low cost materials for contaminant remediation, and nanoscale surface modifications for disinfection are  discussed. 

Main Speaker: Dr. Jaichander Swaminathan Kanchan and Harilal Doshi Chair Assistant Professor for Water, Centre for Sustainable Development, IIT Gandhinagar 
Dr. Jaichander Sawminathan is the Kanchan and Harilal Doshi Chair Assistant Professor for Water, Kiran Patel Centre for Sustainable Development, IIT Gandhinagar. He did his Ph.D. from the MIT, USA, majoring in Energy Sciences, and then spent one year as a post-doctoral associate affiliated with the Tata Center for Technology and Design at MIT. His areas of research interest include thermodynamics, heat and mass transfer. He has co-authored 20+ journal articles in the areas of energy efficient design and operation of desalination processes, renewable energy technologies, membrane fouling and degradation, and decision making under uncertainty. He has received several awards including MIT Carl G. Sontheimer Prize for Creativity and Innovation in Design, and the U.S. B.O.R lnnocentive Challenge prize. He has a B.Tech. from IIT Madras and Masters from MIT.