Comments on: Tapping into hidden resources http://newmexicoindependent.com/1347/tapping-into-hidden-resources New Mexico news and politics Fri, 02 Sep 2011 18:15:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: wdiwater http://newmexicoindependent.com/1347/tapping-into-hidden-resources#comment-973 wdiwater Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://70.32.121.217/?p=1347#comment-973 Several news articles on seawater desalination reveal that desalination technology is little understood by most journalists, local water managers, politicians and environmental groups. In searching for renewable potable water or supplementing current sources few are aware that there is more than one desalination technology. When evaluating a desalination project Reverse Osmosis is typically the process considered. Yet, there is a viable and proven alternative in distillation with lower costs. The Advanced Vapor Compression Desalination Process is an advanced and highly environmentally friendly desalination process, an alternative, single performance, and lower maintenance process compared to Reverse Osmosis. The system is based on proven flash distilling principles but features an innovative, highly efficient, and compact design. Additionally, it offers a unique advantage in the treatment of salt byproducts. The system produces outputs of either valuable crystalline salt or concentrated brine. The process is optimized for the desalination of seawater drawn from wells below the sea floor and not returning the brine to the sea. The process has modular abilities and can be expanded to meet future requirements in water demand or designed and built at the start for higher volume. A basic plant design can operate on solar, thermal, nuclear or traditional energy sources. Each unit is optimized from an initial engineering site study to account for different environmental and structural needs. A basic stand-alone unit of 1 acre-foot per day has a footprint of approximately twenty feet in diameter. The larger the plant water volume the lower the cost is per acre-foot. The plant energy consumption is on the order of about 5 to 20 kw per1000 gallons produced based on the design, volume produced and type of energy. The system can also be used in industrial treatment and recovery of effluent water. The life cycle of the plant is based on a 25 year time line which can be extended through proper preventable maintenance and overhaul. Information on Desalination Technology Information on Desalination Water Desalination International’s Advanced Vapor Compression Desalination Process is an advanced and highly environmentally friendly desalination process, an alternative single performance lower maintenance process compared to Reverse Osmosis. The system is based on traditional flash distilling principles that incorporate a unique and compact design. The various designs can accommodate either salt recovery by extracting water from seawater drawn from wells beneath the sea floor while recovering the valuable sea salts for commercial use or returning the brine to the sea. Salts content in seawater of 3.5% is approximately 48 ton. The process has modular abilities and can be expanded to meet future requirements in water demand or designed and built at the start for higher volume. A basic plant design can operate on solar, thermal, nuclear or traditional energy sources. Each unit is optimized from an initial engineering site study to account for different environmental and structural needs. A basic stand-alone unit of 1 acre-foot per day has a footprint of approximately thirty feet in diameter. The larger the plant water volume the lower the cost is per acre-foot. The plant energy consumption is on the order of about 5 to 21 kw per 1000 gallons produced based on the design, volume produced and type of energy. The system can also be used in industrial treatment and recovery of effluent water. The life cycle of the plant is based on a 25 year timeline which can be extended through proper preventable maintenance and overhaul. Several news articles on seawater desalination reveal that desalination technology is little understood by most journalists, local water managers, politicians and environmental groups. In searching for renewable potable water or supplementing current sources few are aware that there is more than one desalination technology.
When evaluating a desalination project Reverse Osmosis is typically the process considered. Yet, there is a viable and proven alternative in distillation with lower costs.

The Advanced Vapor Compression Desalination Process is an advanced and highly environmentally friendly desalination process, an alternative, single performance, and lower maintenance process compared to Reverse Osmosis. The system is based on proven flash distilling principles but features an innovative, highly efficient, and compact design. Additionally, it offers a unique advantage in the treatment of salt byproducts.

The system produces outputs of either valuable crystalline salt or concentrated brine. The
process is optimized for the desalination of seawater drawn from wells below the sea floor and not returning the brine to the sea. The process has modular abilities and can be expanded to meet future requirements in water demand or designed and built at the start for higher volume. A basic plant design can operate on solar, thermal, nuclear or traditional energy sources. Each unit is optimized from an initial engineering site study to account for different environmental and structural needs. A basic stand-alone unit of 1 acre-foot per day has a footprint of approximately twenty feet in diameter. The larger the plant water volume the lower the cost is per acre-foot. The plant energy consumption is on the order of about 5 to 20 kw per1000 gallons produced based on the design, volume produced and type of energy.

The system can also be used in industrial treatment and recovery of effluent water. The life cycle of the plant is based on a 25 year time line which can be extended through proper preventable maintenance and overhaul.

Information on Desalination Technology

Information on Desalination

Water Desalination International’s Advanced Vapor Compression Desalination Process is an advanced and highly environmentally friendly desalination process, an alternative single performance lower maintenance process compared to Reverse Osmosis. The system is based on traditional flash distilling principles that incorporate a unique and compact design. The various designs can accommodate either salt recovery by extracting water from seawater drawn from wells beneath the sea floor while recovering the valuable sea salts for commercial use or returning the brine to the sea. Salts content in seawater of 3.5% is approximately 48 ton.

The process has modular abilities and can be expanded to meet future requirements in water demand or designed and built at the start for higher volume. A basic plant design can operate on solar, thermal, nuclear or traditional energy sources. Each unit is optimized from an initial engineering site study to account for different environmental and structural needs. A basic stand-alone unit of 1 acre-foot per day has a footprint of approximately thirty feet in diameter. The larger the plant water volume the lower the cost is per acre-foot. The plant energy consumption is on the order of about 5 to 21 kw per 1000 gallons produced based on the design, volume produced and type of energy.

The system can also be used in industrial treatment and recovery of effluent water. The life cycle of the plant is based on a 25 year timeline which can be extended through proper preventable maintenance and overhaul.

]]> By: jfleck http://newmexicoindependent.com/1347/tapping-into-hidden-resources#comment-974 jfleck Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://70.32.121.217/?p=1347#comment-974 Nice piece, Joel. I think one of the important questions here over time is going to be the regulatory environment at the state level surrounding this issue - whether the Office of State Engineer is granted regulatory authority, and how the long term question is handled. What happens if and when Sandoval builds houses based on a water supply that may be large, but that is finite. Will they be required to buy offsetting water rights anyway to ensure that there is a long term supply in half a century or a century when the brackish aquifer goes dry? Nice piece, Joel. I think one of the important questions here over time is going to be the regulatory environment at the state level surrounding this issue – whether the Office of State Engineer is granted regulatory authority, and how the long term question is handled. What happens if and when Sandoval builds houses based on a water supply that may be large, but that is finite. Will they be required to buy offsetting water rights anyway to ensure that there is a long term supply in half a century or a century when the brackish aquifer goes dry?

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