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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 11, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 15, 2011
Prakash N. Govindan, Cambridge, MA (US);
Karan H. Mistry, Cambridge, MA (US);
John H. Lienhard, Lexington, MA (US);
Syed M. Zubair, Dhahran, SA;
Prakash N. Govindan, Cambridge, MA (US);
Karan H. Mistry, Cambridge, MA (US);
John H. Lienhard, Lexington, MA (US);
Syed M. Zubair, Dhahran, SA;
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (US);
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, SA;
Abstract
Water can be separated from a liquid composition (e.g., salt water) by directing a carrier gas flow through an evaporator and directly contacting the carrier gas flow with the liquid composition in the evaporator to humidify the carrier gas with water evaporated from the liquid composition, producing a humidified gas flow, which is then compressed by injecting a fluid that includes steam and/or an organic compound at an elevated pressure at least five times greater than the pressure in the evaporator and at a temperature at least as high as a saturation temperature of the steam/organic compound at the elevated pressure of the fluid. After being compressed, the humidified gas flow is directed through at least one condenser where water is condensed from the compressed humidified gas flow and collected; and the dehumidified gas flow is re-circulated back through the evaporator for reuse as the carrier gas.
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