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Could you add some more info on which process isn't actually used, or links to resources that discuss it? I'm not familiar with the state of the art of desalina
by ChristianBundy 7y ago
Could you add some more info on which process isn't actually used, or links to resources that discuss it? I'm not familiar with the state of the art of desalination.
- nullc 7y agoThe article is comparing to using atmospheric pressure distillation, which isn't used for commercial scale desalination... reverse osmosis is primarily. (Where waste heat is available for 'free' flash distillation , which is already a lot more efficient than atmospheric pressure distillation, can be attractive... but if heat isn't available for free, RO uses about 80% less energy than multi-stage flash) So it sound to me like it may well be in an apples to apples comparison the method discussed in the article may be similar to or less energy efficient than RO. But maybe it could be used to enhance the usefulness of flash distillation for lower levels of waste heat.