Farid Benyahia is a professor of chemical engineering and fellow of the institution of chemical engineers, currently affiliated to the school of chemical engineering at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. He held previously positions of faculty member and head of department in the Gulf and was prior to that senior lecturer in the United Kingdom. He was educated at the Universities of Newcastle and Aston in the United Kingdom. His research interests include low carbon desalination, carbon management, concentrated brine management, contaminated soils and water treatment, and multiphase reactor systems.

• 1. The Water Nexus and Desalination 2. Membrane Distillation Desalination Principles and Configurations 3. Membranes for Membrane Distillation in Desalination 4. Membrane Distillation Module Design 5. Membrane Distillation Performance Analysis 6. Membrane Fouling and Scaling in Membrane Distillation 7. Membrane Improvement in Membrane Distillation 8. Modeling of Membrane Distillation 9. Low-Carbon Energy Sources for Membrane Distillation Processes for Desalination 10. Conclusions and Future Horizons for Membrane Distillation Desalination