โ Scribed by W.S. Gillam; W.H. McCoy
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Throughout the rettarch and de~~e~~p~~en~ program sp~~s~~ by the QfGx of Saline Watt%, tht: dirgc~ja~ of ~%.xt is from ~imaIl to Iars, from simple to complex, from the well underssood to the unknown. lkfare huge plants Come test beds, before test beds come pilot plants, befc~~ pilot plants comes applied research OFI separate proccssgoverning factors; and f~~n~t~~~aj to applitrd research arr: the conception and laboratory testing of new ideas as weI1 as the rn~as~rgm~~t and int~rp~~~j~~ of those r~~d~~~~t~~ ~lin~-s~~f~t~~~ properties upon rchich d~sa~inati~~l processes are based.
Progress toward ~~~~rni~l de~al~~atio~ is being hindered by kno#y practical ~r#b~e~ arising frum jr~~~~~b~~i~i~s, hence ~~~~i~n~i~ duting marter and energy ~rans~rt. ~rn~rov~ design and process ~e~hno~o~ will increase e~~je~c~ of known methods* but this technology is ultim~tteIy tin&d by the depth of our insight into the m&xu.lar-s&e phenomena u~dff~yiug each desalinatirr(n technique. Our hope is for major advances in this tatter area: neither Einstein's mass~ner~ equation nor ~~~~g~r*s ~~~t~~ pi~ysics resldted from a reworking of cIa&zal mechanics; neither the finding of a polio vaccine by Salk nor the unravelling of DNA by Beadle resulted from optimizing the efEency of a standard series of operations; the transister is not a redesigned vacuum tube. The great importance of engin~ring deve-~opm~t is not questjo~~~ blat it cannot stand a#ane. ft follows that the principal ----* &per pfaented at the Skxond European Syrn~jurn on Fresh Water from the Sea, May 9-12, I967, Athens, Greta, EWO~MII F~~~ti~ oif ~micaf ~n~j~ri~g.
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