Thermal desalination

• Multistage bubble column based thermal desalination with latent heat recovery • Greenhouse food production in remote regions as a by-product of water desalination • Strongly reduced plant water demand of greenhouse plants in humid environment • Social, economic and environmentally sustainable deve

A new desalination technology named Desalination Pipeline is proposed. The Desalination Pipeline system enables simultaneously desalination and efficient transport of distilled water by applying the working principle of a heat pipe without its liquid recirculation function. The energy source for the

A new multi-effect plate evaporator, EasyMED, is presented. This patented process [1] is applicable for seawater desalination using simple and modular technology. Experimental results from the hydrodynamics and thermal performances obtained with a one-effect laboratory unit with 0.4 m3/d distilled w

A visual basic computer package was developed for the design and analysis of thermal and membrane desalination processes. The package includes conventional processes, i.e., reverse osmosis, single-effect mechanical vapor compression, multiple-effect evaporation with/without thermal or mechanical vap

While the fuel cost has increased in the past years, the desalinated water demand has also increased sharply, especially in the deserted areas. The challenge is to be able to meet such future demand, minimizing the water production costs. The desalination concepts have evolved, achieving substantial

A thermal seawater desalination plant which utilizes waste heat from flue gases upstream, flue gas desulphurization (FGD), is discussed. This type of “low-grade” heat is suitable for low-temperature desalination technologies such as multi-effect distillation (MED) technology. Two different alternati

Thermal desalination plants have been operating in Libya since 1975. Over this period, the total installed capacity has grown to more than 330,000 m3/d. Of this, more than 300,000 m3/d are produced by multi-stage flash (MSF) and the rest by multi-effect distillation (MED). This paper describes a com