Mobile and floating flash distillation plants

✍ Scribed by K.D.B. Johnson; D.W. Clelland

• Book ID: 104113152
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1967
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 617 KB
• Volume: 2
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0011-9164
• DOI: 10.1016/s0011-9164(00)84135-1

✦ Synopsis

A single mobile float ser~c the increasing %atcr requirements of scser-al scattered communities such as those icing on a group of islands or along an arid coastline_ The use of such plants could satisfy the requirements of small communities for additional high quality water supplies %%here the present demand does not justify the installation and operation of scseral small land-based desalination plants and where the cost of transporting alternatise hater supplies is high . The inherent flexibility of a mobile plant would enable seasonal peak demands of certain communities to be readth met .

This paper presents the results of a design study of a mobile and floating desalination plant %loth a fresh saner production capacity of 200,000 igpd (909 rn3 .d) . The capital cost of such a facilitti has been estimated to be £ 384,000 . This plant could supph each of 60 .000 persons in 12 isolated communities %kith 2.7 igpd (12 litrcs :'pay) of fresh water a ; a cost of 26 ;-d 1 .000 Imp . gallons.