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US 10,702,789 B2Granted
Thermal desalination system with multi-effect evaporator and fluidized bed crystallizer
AssigneeI.D.E. Technologies Ltd.
InventorsTomer Efrat, Alex Drak
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Abstract
A thermal desalination system, comprising a multi-effect evaporator comprising a plurality of effects, configured to produce product water and brine and a fluidized bed crystallizer, configured to remove dissolved minerals and/or solids from the water, wherein the fluidized bed crystallizer is disposed between at least two effects of the multi-effect evaporator.
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A thermal desalination system, comprising
- a multi-effect evaporator comprising a plurality of effects, configured to produce product water and brine;
- and
- a fluidized bed crystallizer disposed between at least two effects of the plurality of effects and configured to remove dissolved minerals and/or solids from the water,
- wherein the fluidized bed crystallizer is connected to an outlet of a first effect of the at least two effects so as to receive feed water therefrom, the fluidized bed crystallizer also being connected to a second effect of the at least two effects so as to supply feed water to the second effect.
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A method of operating a thermal desalination system for treating water comprising:
- introducing feed water from a sea water supply into a multi-effect evaporator comprising a plurality of evaporator effects;
- directing a first effluent water from a first effect of the plurality of evaporator effects into a fluidized bed crystallizer, which is configured to remove dissolved minerals and/or solids from the first effluent water;
- directing a second effluent water
- from the fluidized bed crystallizer to a second effect of the multi-effect crystallizer;
- and
- collecting product water.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.