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  2. Multi-stage flash distillation - Wikipedia

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    After the heater, the water flows through valves back into the stages that have ever lower pressure and temperature. As it flows back through the stages the water is now called brine, to distinguish it from the inlet water. In each stage, as the brine enters, its temperature is above the boiling point at the pressure of the stage, and a small ...

  3. Multiple-effect distillation - Wikipedia

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    The salt water collected at the bottom of each stage can be sprayed on the tubes in the next stage, since this water has a suitable temperature and pressure near or slightly above the operating temperature and pressure in the next stage. Some of this water will flash into steam as it is released into the next stage at lower pressure than the ...

  4. Desalination - Wikipedia

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    The desalination process's energy consumption depends on the water's salinity. Brackish water desalination requires less energy than seawater desalination. [82] The energy intensity of seawater desalination has improved: It is now about 3 kWh/m 3 (in 2018), down by a factor of 10 from 20-30 kWh/m 3 in 1970.

  5. Low-temperature thermal desalination - Wikipedia

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    Low-temperature thermal desalination (LTTD) is a desalination technique which takes advantage of the fact that water evaporates at lower temperatures at low pressures, even as low as ambient temperature. The system uses vacuum pumps to create a low pressure, low-temperature environment in which water evaporates even at a temperature difference ...

  6. Vapor-compression desalination - Wikipedia

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    The VVC process is the more efficient distillation process available in the market today in terms of energy consumption and water recovery ratio. [1] As the system is electrically driven, it is considered a "clean" process, it is highly reliable and simple to operate and maintain.

  7. Membrane distillation - Wikipedia

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    The mass flow of pre-heated coolant leaves the condenser channel at a temperature of about 72 °C (162 °F) and enters a heat exchanger, thus pre-heating the feed water. This feed water is then delivered to a further heat source and finally enters the evaporator channel of the MD module at a temperature of 80 °C (176 °F).

  8. Geothermal desalination - Wikipedia

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    Desalination is the process of removing minerals from seawater to convert it into fresh water. Desalination is divided into two categories in terms of processes: processes driven by thermal energy and processes driven by mechanical energy. [3] Geothermal desalination uses geothermal energy as the thermal energy source to drive the desalination ...

  9. Seawater greenhouse - Wikipedia

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    The brine disposed by the seawater desalination may disturb the ecosystem as the same amount of brine is produced as freshwater. [5] By using the brine valoristation method of wind-driven air flow by cooling the greenhouse with seawater evaporation, salt can be produced as shown in Figure 4. [5]