Design of a household desalination plant

Τίτλος

Design of a household desalination plant

Θέμα

Desalination of water

Δημιουργός

Antoniou, Emilios

Πηγή

Higher Technical Institute

Το πλήρες κείμενο είναι διαθέσιμο από το Υπουργείο Ενέργειας, Εμπορίου Βιομηχανίας και Τουρισμού

Εκδότης

Library of Cyprus University of Technology

Ημερομηνία

1992

Συνεισφέρων

Symeou, Th.

Δικαιώματα

Απαγορεύεται η δημοσίευση ή αναπαραγωγή, ηλεκτρονική ή άλλη χωρίς τη γραπτή συγκατάθεση του δημιουργού και κάτοχου των πνευματικών δικαιωμάτων.

Μορφή

pfd

Γλώσσα

eng

Τύπος

text

Αναγνωριστικό

MED0161

Σύνοψη

Desalting is the production of fresh water from brackish or salt water. It has become important because water use is increasing rapidly throughout the world. In many areas of the world the use of natural fresh water is reaching the
limit of the available supply. Additional sources of supply
must be developed. One likely method of providing at least a part of this supplemental water is to desalt inland
brackish or sea water. Land based desalination plants are being used on isolated islands, in the Middle and Near East and in industrial districts which are suffering a water shortage. One of the big problems connected with producing fresh water from seawater with a land based desalination plant is cost.
It is necessary to keep the cost as close as possible to the
cost of natural water (rainwater contained in reservoirs and purified at a purification plant). Research has been done on various desalination plants which can produce adequate water at reasonable cost.
In desalting processes, either fresh water is removed from
the saline solution or disolved solids are extracted from
the solution to reduce salinity.