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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 05, 1996
Filed:
Nov. 22, 1993
Applicant:
Inventor:
Dinh-Cuong Vuong, Nederland, TX (US);
Assignee:
Texaco Inc., White Plains, NY (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B01D / ; C02F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
202235 ; 159 261 ; 159 431 ; 202237 ; 202262 ; 202270 ; 203 10 ; 203100 ; 165159 ; 165174 ;
Abstract
An evaporator, which includes a water chamber for receiving water to be evaporated. A plurality of evaporator tubes which when heated, and when water is on an inner wall of a tube, evaporates at least a portion of that water. A plurality of distributors spatially connecting the water chamber with the evaporator tubes in a manner so that each distributor uniformly and distributes the water from the water chamber to an inner wall of a corresponding evaporator tube. A heat source, which heats the plurality of tubes to an evaporation temperature. Apparatus distills the water vapor resulting from the water evaporation to provide distilled water.