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CaribDA

      Caribbean Desalination Association

Conference Program CaribDA 2010                                 

 "A View Beyond The Horizon" 

  

                                 

Venue:Grand Cayman Marriott Beach Resort

Grand Cayman, Cayman Islands

June 1:

09:00-17:00  Registration

09:00-17:00  Booth Set up

14:00-16:00  General members meeting

16:00-17:00  Meeting Speakers /set up /testing

17:00-19:00  Get acquaintance cocktails and  

                   opening of exhibition

 

June 2:

08:00-08:45  Registration

08:45-09:45  Opening ceremonies

09:45-10:00  Coffee break

 

10:00-12:45 Session #1

 

10:00-10:30  From distillate to permeate;an 

                   historical viewpoint

                   Key note speaker(Mr. Emilio

                   Gabrielli,Toray Membrane USA Inc.)

10:30-11:00  Multi-Stage Flash / Fluidized Bed Evaporator (MSF/FBE): A Resurrection in Thermal Seawater Desalination?

Dick G. Klaren, KLAREN BV

11:00-11:30  MBR: A Key Solution for Water

                   Scarcity Problems

James W. Hotchkies, TORAY  

Industries, Inc

11:30-12:00  Large Seawater RO Project Update

                   and the Relevance to the Caribbean

Paul Choules, Desalination & Reuse

Americas

12:00-13:00   Lunch

 

13:00-16:45  Session #2

 

13:00-13:30 Memstill: a sustainable solution for

                   sea water desalination

Chris Dotremont, Keppel Seghers 

Belgium

13:30-14:00  Advances in Energy Recovery

                   Technologies for Desalination

Borja Blanco, Energy Recovery Inc

14:00-14:30  Desalination through reverse osmosis 

                   systems in the north region of

                   Mexico, Baja California

                   Cinthya Avalos M., Dow Water & 

                   Process Solution

14:30-15:00  The art of cleaning and

                   troubleshooting of reverse osmosis

                   systems

                   Jantje Johnson, OrangeBoat LLC

15:00-15:15  Coffee break

 

15:15-15:45  Fast response to Virgin Islands

                   pressing water demands

Miles Beamguard, Seven Seas

15:45-16:15  The Integrated delivery of the Keppel Seghers Ulu Pandan NEWater Plant

Ronald Carrette, Keppel Seghers 

Belgium NV

16:15-16:45  Successful antiscalant field trial-

                   Optimization at higher pH and 

                   Seawater Temperature-Larnaca 

                   Desalination Plant

                   Jeffrey Kolpa, ThermPhos USA

16:45-17:15  New Solar still with suction of wet 

                   air:a solution in the isolated tropic 

                   areas

                   Paolo Franceschetti,Freelance 

                   Consultant 

 

18:30-20:30  Cayman Cocktail Reception

 

June 3 :

08:45-12:45  Session#3

 

08:45-09:15  Key note speaker (Thomas Wozniak,

                   NALCO Chemical Co)

09:15-09:45  Efficacy Oriented Maintenance: A Total Productive Work Floor Maintenance Program to Increase Desalination Efficiency.

Filomeno A. Marchena, WEB Aruba

09:45-10:15  Development of an easy interpretation performance index for RO systems

Daniel Brooke Peig, Perenne Brazil

10:15-10:30  Coffee break

 

10:30-11:00  Long Term Operating Experience of 

                   Seaguard UF as Pretreatment to    

                   SWRO in Tropical Waters

Frans Knops, X-Flow B.V.

11:00-11:30  Strategies for Maintaining Production Efficiency by Minimizing Deposits in an Operating MED Thermal Desalination Plant

Robin Kluck /Juan Torres, GE Power &

 Water

11:30-12:00  Internally Staged Design and the Resulting Improvement in SWRO Operational Efficiency

Steven Coker, Dow Water & Process

Solution

12:00-13:00  Lunch

 

13:30-14:30  Session #4

 

13:00-13:30  Key note speaker (Mr. Jerry Butler, 

                  Caribbean Renewable Energy Forum)

13:30-14:00  Future prospects of feasible and sustainable water supply on Aruba

                   Aleksandar Vlaski,Royal Haskoning

14:00-14:30  Biodegradable Antiscalant for

                   Seawater Reverse Osmosis

Suresh Patel, BWA Water Additives

14:30-14:45  Coffee break

 

14:45-16:45  Session #5

 

14:45-15:15  Addressing the Drought Situation-

                   Caribbean Water Policy 

                   Considerations 

                   Victor Poyotte(Caribbean Basin 

                   Water Management Programme)  

 

15:15-15:45  Sustainable and innovative water  

                   supply technology

Michael Becker(NYMPHEA 

Environment)         

15:45-16:15  Benchmarking Water Utilities and

                   Desalination in the Caribbean

Roel Verlaan, Kema consulting

16:15-16:45  Grooved mechanical piping: Anatomy of the Joint

Stephen Morrison, Victaulic

16:45-17:00  Economic,environmental and social incentives to recover hypersaline concentrate via the dual salt (NaHCO3 & NH4Cl) process at desalination plants in Latin America and the Caribbean

                   William Miller,Integrated Watershed Management

20:00-23:00  Dinner Celebration

 

June 4:

9:00-12:00    Plant tour

 
 

CaribDA                              Caribbean Desalination Association                              CaribDA