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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 22, 2022
Filed:
Nov. 12, 2020
Saudi Arabian Oil Company, Dhahran, SA;
Guillaume Jean-Francois Robert Raynel, Dhahran, SA;
Regis Didier Alain Vilagines, Dhahran, SA;
Duaa J. Al Saeed, Al Qatif, SA;
Saudi Arabian Oil Company, Dhahran, SA;
Abstract
A method of desalinating an aqueous composition includes forming a hetero-azeotrope mixture by combining the aqueous composition with an entrainer, the aqueous composition including at least one salt, and subjecting the hetero-azeotrope mixture to distillation at a distillation temperature of less than the boiling temperature of the aqueous composition for an operating distillation pressure, resulting in separating the hetero-azeotrope mixture into a distillation bottoms liquid and a multi-phase condensate. The method includes recovering the multi-phase condensate having an entrainer-rich phase and an aqueous phase, the aqueous phase comprising desalinated water, and removing a portion of the aqueous phase from the multi-phase condensate to recover the desalinated water. Systems for conducting the method of desalinating an aqueous stream are also disclosed.