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http://dx.doi.org/10.3795/KSME-B.2014.38.5.407

Novel Apparatus for Seawater Desalination and Its Application  

Lee, Ju Dong (Offshore Plant Resources R&D Center, Korea Institute of Industrial Technology)
Kang, Kyung Chan (Offshore Plant Resources R&D Center, Korea Institute of Industrial Technology)
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Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers B / v.38, no.5, 2014 , pp. 407-412 More about this Journal
Abstract
A new apparatus for seawater desalination, based on the principle of gas hydrates, is suggested. The equipment continuously produces and pelletizes gas hydrates by a squeezing operation in a dual cylinder unit, which is able to extract pure hydrate pellets from the seawater-containing reactor. Desalination efficiency for each dissolved ion from seawater samples was tested by inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectroscopy (ICP-AES) and ion chromatography (IC) analysis. This study demonstrates that the suggested method and the stated apparatus may solve the difficulty of separating hydrate crystals from concentrated brine solutions, and therefore may be applied to improve the efficiency of existing desalination processes.
Keywords
Gas Hydrate; Seawater Desalination; Removal of Dissolved Ions; Water Treatment;
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