137 Matching Results

Search Results

Results: 1 - 24 next
open access

Design and Construction of a Desalination Pilot Plant, a Reverse Osmosis Process

Description: Report containing plans for a desalination pilot plant for the purposes of evaluating the feasibility of reverse osmosis for the desalination of sea and brackish water with the capacity of 1,000 gallons of potable water produced per day.
Date: January 1964
Creator: Aerojet-General Corporation
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Secondary Refrigerant Freezing Desalting Process: Operation of a 15,000 GPD Pilot Plant

Description: Report issued by the Office of Saline Water over the development of the secondary refrigerant freeze desalination process. The process is presented and discussed. This report includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: March 1969
Creator: Ganiaris, N.; Lambiris, J.; Glasser, R.; Hunter, J. A.; Rinne, W. W. & Verikios, S. C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Reverse Osmosis for Water Desalination

Description: Report issued by the Office of Saline Water over studies conducted on the reverse-osmosis program. The methods of desalination through osmosis are discussed. This report includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: May 22, 1964
Creator: Lonsdale, H. K.; Merten, U.; Riley, R. L.; Vos, K. D. & Westmoreland, J. C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Engineering and Economic Feasibility Study for a Combination Nuclear Power and Desalting Plant: Phases 1 and 2

Description: Scope: As defined by the subcontract, Bechtel's responsibility is to determine the engineering and economic feasibility and preliminary design of a combination power and desalting plant using a nuclear energy heat source, which plant shall be deemed suitable for operation by the District by the year 1970.
Date: December 1965
Creator: Bechtel Corporation
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Development of an Improved Solar Still

Description: Report concerning the study of multiple designs of solar distillers with the goal of increasing the fresh water ouptut.
Date: March 1962
Creator: Grune, Werner N.; Collins, Richard A.; Hughes, Ross B. & Thompson, T. Lewis
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Investigation of the Mass Transfer Properties of Saline Water Systems

Description: From Introduction: "This investigation was undertaken in order to obtain the appropriate property data for both binary and muticomponent salt solutions and to determine the usefulness of the simple Nernst-type equations, compared with more exact flux-driving force equations, for predicting species transport in molecular diffusion processes of importance in desalination research. The following sections present the details of the approaches taken to each of the tasks and the results derived from … more
Date: September 1966
Creator: Richardson, John L.; Getz, Richard J. & Segovia, Gilbert
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory Conceptual Design of a 250-MGD Desalination Plant

Description: From Introduction: "This report and the study which went into it form a part of the activities sponsored by the Office of Saline Water, U.S. Department of the Interior, in their accelerated program to develop large plants for the economical desalting of seawater."
Date: September 1966
Creator: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Conceptual Design Study of a 50 Million Gallon Per Day MSF Desalination Plant and Test Module

Description: Report issued by the Office of Saline Water over design studies for a 50 million gallon desalination plant. As stated in the introduction, "this report presents a conceptual design of a 50 MGD multistage flash plant and a conceptual design of a test module based on the 50 MGD plant design and proposed to demonstrate large plant design concepts. The report also includes a discussion of the more important engineering design studies employed in the development of the conceptual designs" (p. 1). Th… more
Date: November 1966
Creator: Fluor Corporation, ltd.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Study of Two-Phase Metastable Flow

Description: From Abstract: "An experimental study was made to determine the flow rate of saturated water through short tubes of various lengths and diameters. Tubes of both rounded and sharp edge entrances were tested in the horizontal and vertical positions. Test results were analyzed and correlated."
Date: November 1966
Creator: Bryers, Richard W. & Hsieh, William S.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Use of Waste Heat For Production of Fresh Water

Description: From Summary: "This study has shown that waste heat sources are available at locations where salt or brackish water could be converted into fresh water by the utilization of waste heat."
Date: December 1966
Creator: Gitterman, Henry & Zwickler, Samuel
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Optimum Brine Heater Outlet Temperature in Sea Water Conversion Evaporators

Description: From Introduction & Scope: "This study was undertaken for the Office of Saline Water to determine the optimum brine heater outlet temperature in single-purpose sea water conversion evaporators for several fuel costs, based on balancing the increased performance ratio possible with high-temperature operations against the increased cost of pressure vessels, corrosion protection, and scale control."
Date: April 1966
Creator: Bechtel Corporation
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Design Study of A Reverse Osmosis Plant for Sea Water Conversion

Description: Report presenting some of the progress made in saline water conversion so that the data can contribute to the long-range development of economical processes applicable to large-scale, low-cost demineralization of sea and other saline water.
Date: April 1966
Creator: Bray, Donald T. & Menzel, Horst F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

A Study of the Disposal of the Effluent From a Large Desalination Plant

Description: From Introduction and Summary and Conclusions: "The disposal of the effluents from large desalination plants has been studied for two years by the Dow Chemical Company and Texas A. & M. University under contract to the Office of Saline Water. Recommendations are presented on the type, frequency, and intensity of pre-plant oceanographic and biological surveys and of post-plant monitoring and verification surveys."
Date: January 1968
Creator: Le Gros, P. G.; Mandelli, E. F.; McIlhenny, W. F.; Winthrode, D. E.; Zeitoun, M. A.; Pequegnat, W. E. et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Recovery of Salts from Saline Waters Via Solvent Extraction

Description: From Abstract: "This report contains the results of a 15-month study of the chemistry of mixed iconic extractant systems and their possible application to the recovery of by-products from desalination brines."
Date: January 1968
Creator: Grinstead, Robert R. & Davis, J. C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Large Reverse Osmosis System Technology and Module Development

Description: From Introduction: "This is the final report on a program of reverse osmosis research conducted for the Office of Saline Water, U.S. Department of the Interior, under Contract 14-01-0001-929. The purpose of the program was the development of larger spiral-wound reverse osmosis modules for economical application in large reverse osmosis systems."
Date: June 1968
Creator: Riedinger, A. B.; Laughlin, J. K. & Sudak, R. G.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Evaluation of Concrete and Related Materials for Desalination Plants

Description: Report examining the uses of concrete in evaporator-type desalting plants. Different types of concrete are evaluated, as well as structures, accessory coatings and sealants, reinforcement materials, and microstructures.
Date: May 1968
Creator: United States. Bureau of Reclamation.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Operation of Reverse Osmosis Pilot Plants

Description: From Introduction: "This report includes the sixth segment of a continuing effort begun early in 1963. Purpose of the work is the scale-up of reverse osmosis from a laboratory curiosity to an economical system for the production of potable water from salty feeds."
Date: August 1968
Creator: DeHaven, C. G.; Jarvis, M. A. & Wunderlich, C. R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Experimental Investigation of Direct Freeze Separation Process Using Refrigerant R-C318 (Octafluorocyclobutane)

Description: Report concerning the possible use of octafluorocyclobutane, R-C318, being used in the direct freezing process as a means of extracting fresh water from sea water. Topics include using R-C318 to make ice, flash precooling, design of a small direct freezing pilot plant using R-C318, and related economic studies.
Date: April 1967
Creator: Johnson, C. A.; Moore, S. J.; Wagaman, N. D. & Sandell, D. J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Economic Effects of Mineral Content in Municipal Water Supplies

Description: Report describing the application of conventional cost experience to physical features of source of supply, treatment, pumping, transmission, distribution, and storage for community water supply sources. Some costs due to readily removable water quality characteristics like suspended solids, color, taste, and order are measurable, as are other conventional costs of operation and maintenance. Other costs related to an excess of dissolved solids, however, tend to be unknown and are the subject of… more
Date: May 1967
Creator: Black & Veatch
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
open access

Evaluation of Liquid-Liquid Heat Transfer for Large-Scale Desalination

Description: Report evaluating the possibility of eliminating corrodible metallic heat transfer surfaces from sea water desalination streams, using direct-contact liquid-liquid heat transfer instead.
Date: April 1967
Creator: Kern, D. Q.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Back to Top of Screen