公开(公告)号：US09975786B2

公开(公告)日：2018-05-22

申请号：US15163038

申请日：2016-05-24

Applicant: ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company

Inventor： Mustafa Al-Sabawi ,  Gordon Bryce McGarvey ,  Robert James Falkiner ,  Robert N. McLean ,  Lawrence J. Evers

IPC: C02F1/04 ,  C02F1/10 ,  C02F7/00 ,  B01D3/34 ,  C02F103/10 ,  C02F103/00

CPC classification number: C02F1/048 ,  B01D3/346 ,  C02F1/04 ,  C02F1/10 ,  C02F7/00 ,  C02F2103/007 ,  C02F2103/10 ,  C02F2209/38 ,  Y02W10/15

Abstract: A method of improving the evaporation from surface bodies of water which comprises artificially inducing air flow over a body of water using air jets at an air flow rate of at least 10 m/second while the water partial pressure of air at the surface temperature of the body of water (Pbs) is greater than the water partial pressure of the ambient air at the surface temperature of the body of water (Pas). The rate of evaporation can be materially enhanced by the transfer of geothermal heat from the lower region of the body of water to the surface region by means of a heat exchanger or a heat pipe.