Keynote and plenary lectures from renowned speakers
The conference program will comprise lectures by our invited speakers supplemented by selected contributed talks and poster sessions.
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16-19 November 2025 | Hilton Clearwater Beach, Florida, USA
Post conference technical tours: 20 November 2025
Abstract submission deadline: 6 June 2025
Author notification deadline: 27 June 2025
Earlybird and author registration deadline: 29 August 2025
Join leading academic researchers, scientists and engineers from membrane desalination and associated industries as well as representatives of government organisations, international agencies and aid organisations to discuss the latest developments in desalination using membrane technology.
The program will include invited plenary lectures, contributed talks and poster sessions highlighting the latest theoretical and applied research, technological and industrial development.
In addition, technical workshops and tours will focus on lab-to-tap approaches, end-of-life membrane valorisation and academic writing workshops.
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 the seawater and wastewater. Membrane technologies have been established as the golden standard for desalination to address the global deficit for clean water. However, it is still expensive, which is one of the main obstacles for prevalent adoption of membranes.
Innovation is key to reduce the energy consumption and the total cost. This can be advanced by developing high performance reverse osmosis (RO) and nanofiltration (NF) membranes, robust module and process design, as well as other novel desalination technologies. We have seen promise in breaking the permselectivity trade-off using state-of-the-art nanomaterials. Biomimetic single ion channel and artificial water channel have shown exciting results in bench tests. 7th International Conference on Desalination Science and Technology 2025 (DESAL 2025) is the dedicated forum to disseminate the cutting-edge research and development in this regard.
Beyond above challenges, environmental concerns are also important for sustainable membrane 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 membrane 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
Recovery of resources from brines
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
The conference program will comprise lectures by our invited speakers supplemented by selected contributed talks and poster sessions.
Present your latest research: Abstract are invited for talks and posters on the conference topics by 6 June 2025.
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