Published on IDRA Global Connections Winter 2021 Issue By Sidney Loeb, Desalination, vol. 1 (1966) pp. 35–49 Nominated by: Miriam Balaban Desalination, Editor-in-Chief Emeritus (1966–2009), Desalination and Water Treatment, Editor-in-Chief (2009 to date). Secretary General EDS, Research Associate MIT balabanmiriam@gmail.com, balaban@mit.edu One of the first papers I published in Volume 1 of Desalination was this paper by Sidney Loeb. His greatest pride was the...
Published on IDRA Global Connections Winter 2021 Issue By K.L. Lee et al. K.L.Lee, R.W.Baker, H.K.Lonsdale “Membranes for power generation by pressure-retarded osmosis” Journal of Membrane Science, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1981, Pages 141-171. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0376-7388(00)82088-8 Nominated by: Menachem Elimelech, Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Yale University menachem.elimelech@yale.edu https://elimelechlab.yale.edu/menachem-elimelech K.L. Lee et al. presented an excellent overview, derivation, and experimental results for the behavior of water flux through...
Published on IDRA Global Connections Winter 2021 Issue Edo Bar-Zeev, Iliana Berman-Frank, Olga Gershevitz and Tom Berman, Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences, Vol 109, June 5, 2012, 9119-9124. Nominated by: Harvey Winters, Ph.D. Department of Biological Sciences Fairleigh Dickinson University harvey@fdu.edu This paper by Edo Bar-Zeev and co-authors proposed for the first time the term “protobiofilm” to represent a planktonic (free-floating) biofilm precursor before its attachment to...
Published on IDRA Global Connections Winter 2021 Issue By Yehia M. El-Sayed and Robert S. Silver Yehia M. El-Sayed and Robert S. Silver, 1980, “Fundamentals of Distillation,” in Principles of Desalination, 2nd ed., K. S. Spiegler and A. D. Laird, eds., Academic Press, New York, Chapter 2. Nominated by: John H. Lienhard V, PhD, PE Department of Mechanical Engineering Massachusetts Institute...
