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Basically this is like the recouperator on early heat engines, but with a liquid gradient instead of a thermal one. It's making desalination more efficient and
by hinkley 1y ago
Basically this is like the recouperator on early heat engines, but with a liquid gradient instead of a thermal one.
It's making desalination more efficient and the effluent a bit easier on the ecosystem.
- HPsquared 1y agoGoes nicely with the "pressure exchanger" which recovers the pressure of the high pressure brine waste stream. Lots of heat exchanger analogies! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressure_exchanger https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressure_exchanger
- hinkley 1y agoYeah those are funky devices. I'll be curious to see what the production cost per cubic meter of fresh water ends up at.