Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Seawater desalination system and energy exchange chamber
- Patent Title (中): 海水淡化系统和能量交换室
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Application No.: US13320351Application Date: 2010-05-17
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Publication No.: US08771510B2Publication Date: 2014-07-08
- Inventor: Tamami Takahashi , Masao Shinoda , Masato Eguchi , Masanori Goto
- Applicant: Tamami Takahashi , Masao Shinoda , Masato Eguchi , Masanori Goto
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Ebara Corporation
- Current Assignee: Ebara Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Wenderoth, Lind & Ponack, L.L.P.
- Priority: JP2009-118771 20090515
- International Application: PCT/JP2010/058270 WO 20100517
- International Announcement: WO2010/131765 WO 20101118
- Main IPC: B01D61/06
- IPC: B01D61/06 ; B01D61/02 ; C02F1/44 ; B01D61/08 ; B01D61/10

Abstract:
A seawater desalination system which can solve a problem of wear of a sliding member and can suppress mixing of concentrated seawater and seawater by making an energy exchange chamber no-piston configuration is provided. In a seawater desalination system for producing fresh water from seawater by passing the seawater pressurized by a pump through a reverse-osmosis membrane-separation apparatus (4) to separate the seawater into fresh water and concentrated seawater, an energy exchange chamber (20) for utilizing pressure energy of the concentrated seawater discharged from the reverse-osmosis membrane-separation apparatus (3) as energy for pressurizing part of the seawater is provided. The energy exchange chamber includes a concentrated seawater port (P1) for introducing and discharging the concentrated seawater, a seawater port (P2) for introducing and discharging the seawater, and a plurality of partitioned fluid passages (R) provided in the chamber to allow the concentrated seawater port (P1) and the seawater port (P2) to communicate with each other.
Public/Granted literature
- US20120061309A1 SEAWATER DESALINATION SYSTEM AND ENERGY EXCHANGE CHAMBER Public/Granted day:2012-03-15
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