International Desalination Association

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Board of Directors
President
Mr. Imad Makhzoumi
1st Vice President
Mr. Teng Chye KHOO
2nd Vice President
Mr. Michel Canet
Treasurer & Editor
Ms Lisa R. Henthorne
Secretary
Mr. Lance D. Johnson
Comptroller
Mr. Randy Truby
Secretary General
Ms. Patricia A. Burke
Directors
Mr. Ahmed Al-Mudaiheem
Mr. Salah Al-Otaibi
Dr. Abdullah Al Shaikh
Dr. Abdulmajeed Ali Alawadhi
Eng. Thomas Altmann
Mr. Leon Awerbuch
Dr. Adil Bushnak
Mr. Gerard Canton
Mr. Antonio Casanas
Mr. Ghassan Ejjeh
Mr. Doug Eisberg
Dr. Nobuya Fujiwara
Dr. Emillio Gabbrielli
Mr. Humphrey Gouverneur
Mr. Ali Redha Hussain
Mr. Mohamad Jaroudi
Mr. Fady Juez
Dr. Masaru Kurihara
Ms. Shannon McCarthy
Mr. Fayyaz Muddassir Mubeen
Mr. Neil Palmer
Mr. Tom Pankratz
Mr. Larry Pelegrin
Mr. Miguel Angel Sanz
Dr. Corrado Sommariva
Mr. Freddy Soon
Mr. Isao Takekoh
Dr. P.K. Tewari
Prof. Shichang Wang


Directors
Dr. Nobuya Fujiwara
Japan
 
Nobuya Fujiwara is Chief Engineer of Desalination Membrane Operating Department of TOYOBO Co., Ltd. He graduated from Kyoto University, the department of Chemical Engineering, in 1983. He joined TOYOBO Research Institute and studied the performance analysis of RO module. Then, he was transferred to the head office of TOYOBO as a chief engineer.

He was taking charge of development of RO module and establishment of operating methods such as Intermittent Chlorine Injection Method. RO modules which he developed have been used for Jeddah and Yanbu RO plants in Saudi Arabia, both were world's largest seawater desalination RO plant at the time of construction.

Moreover, he led the development team and succeeded in various developments recently. The high recovery (60%) system which offers reduction of plant construction cost and running cost was adopted for the biggest seawater desalination plant in Japan. The newly developed large-sized "Both Open-Ended" RO modules are used in huge seawater desalination plants which have capability to produce water capacity of more than 200,000m3/d in Saudi Arabia.

The capacity of the seawater desalination RO plants which he took charge of is about 1 million m3/d.

He contributes to development of seawater desalination technology also by publishing many technical papers about the results of his research and development for these 25 years.

In 2008, he received doctor degree (Engineering) from Kobe University in Japan by the research on RO modules for seawater desalination.

Email: Nobuya_Fujiwara@toyobo.jp