WATER DISTILLATION SYSTEM AND METHOD OF DISTILLING WATER

    公开(公告)号:US20190330079A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-10-31

    申请号:US16311548

    申请日:2017-07-11

    发明人: Paul MAYRAND

    IPC分类号: C02F1/10 B01D3/34 B01D3/16

    摘要: A distillation system has an evaporator that uses heated air circulating in water to transport water laden air to a cooling apparatus. The cooling apparatus condenses the water present in the water laden air to produce distilled water, which is free of the biological matter and minerals that may have been present in the water present in the evaporator. The apparatus can include an airlift pump. A method of distilling water comprises the steps of generating an airflow; heating the airflow to obtain a heated airflow; providing the heated airflow to the water to heat the water and to produce water saturated air; and cooling the water saturated air to obtained distilled water.

    System and method to partially vaporize a process stream by mixing the stream with a heating medium

    公开(公告)号:US10328360B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-06-25

    申请号:US15193839

    申请日:2016-06-27

    摘要: A system and method to partially vaporize a process or feed water stream does so in a liquid pool zone of a vessel as the stream comes into contact with a heating medium that is less volatile than the process stream. To keep the pool hot, the heating medium can be recirculated through a heater of a pump-around loop or a heater can be placed in the liquid pool. As the process stream is partially vaporized, any solids present in the process stream together with the unvaporized process or feed water stream move into the heating medium. These solids and unvaporized liquids may be further removed from the heating medium in the pool or in the pump-around loop. The vaporized process stream can be further condensed. Any heat recovered can be used to pre-heat the process stream or in the pump-around loop's heater in case of mechanical vapor recovery.

    HYBRID DESALINATION SYSTEMS AND ASSOCIATED METHODS

    公开(公告)号:US20190084842A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-03-21

    申请号:US16078704

    申请日:2017-02-22

    摘要: Systems and methods related to desalination systems are described herein. According to some embodiments, the desalination systems are hybrid systems comprising one or more first desalination units and one or more second desalination units. In some embodiments, the one or more second desalination units, which may form a fluidic circuit that is located downstream from the one or more first desalination units, may be configured to desalinate higher salinity liquid streams than the one or more first desalination units. In certain embodiments, the one or more first desalination units are operated under steady-state conditions and/or configured to operate under steady-state conditions. In certain embodiments, the one or more second desalination units are transiently operated and/or configured to facilitate transient operation. In some embodiments, a liquid stream comprising water and at least one dissolved salt is flowed through the one or more first desalination units, which are configured to remove at least a portion of the water from the liquid stream to form a first concentrated brine stream enriched in the dissolved salt. In some embodiments, at least a portion of the first concentrated brine stream is fed to a fluidic circuit comprising the one or more second desalination units. In some embodiments, the one or more second desalination units are configured to remove at least a portion of the water from the first concentrated brine stream to produce a second concentrated brine stream further enriched in the dissolved salt. In certain cases, the second concentrated brine stream is recirculated through at least a portion of the fluidic circuit until the second concentrated brine stream reaches a relatively high density (e.g., at least about 10 pounds per gallon) and/or a relatively high salinity (e.g., a total dissolved salt concentration of at least about 25 wt %).