Evaporative desalination device of multi stage and multi effect using solar heat

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9028653-B2
Application number	US-201213446308-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 13, 2012
Priority date	Apr 13, 2012
Publication date	May 12, 2015
Grant date	May 12, 2015

Abstract

An evaporative desalination device includes a multi stage vapor generator that generates vapor by passing a hot water supply pipe successively through a plurality of vapor generators to evaporate sea water inside thereof, a multi effect vapor generator that uses vapor in the respective vapor generators as heat source and forms a plurality of evaporator groups which can adjust a number of evaporators disposed inside the respective evaporator groups and produce fresh water according to amounts of supplied vapor to evaporate sea water in the evaporator groups on an outer circumference surface of an evaporation tube by heat of vapor flowing in the evaporation tube, and a discharge unit that condenses vapor in the multi effect generator by sea water to discharge fresh water in liquid state, and returns and supplies portions of discharged sea water to the multi stage vapor generator and the multi effect evaporator.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An evaporative desalination device comprising:
a multi stage vapor generator evaporating sea water and including
a plurality of vapor generators including
a high temperature vapor generator, and
a low temperature vapor generator, and

a hot water supply pipe of which an inlet portion is disposed in the high temperature vapor generator and an outlet portion is disposed in the low temperature vapor generator, the hot water supply pipe being extended from the high temperature vapor generator to the low temperature vapor generator as a single pipe and successively passing through the plurality of vapor generators;

a multi effect evaporator evaporating and desalinating the sea water and including a plurality of evaporator groups respectively corresponding to the plurality of vapor generators, each of the evaporator groups including a plurality of evaporators, each evaporator including
a sea water storage tank disposed in an upper side of the evaporator and dropping the sea water stored in the sea water storage tank through a plurality of bored holes,
an evaporation tube evaporating the dropped sea water thereonto,
a filter filtering foreign substances in a vapor evaporated by the evaporation tube and discharging the vapor to a next evaporator, and
a fresh water storage unit connected to an end of the evaporation tube and storing fresh water condensed in the evaporation tube;

a condenser including a sea water supply pipe thereinside and cooling the vapor from the multi effect evaporator by using the sea water flowing the sea water supply pipe; and
a discharge unit discharging the sea water used in the condenser,
wherein an inlet of the evaporation tube of a first evaporator of a first evaporator groups is connected to an outlet of the high temperature vapor generator, and an inlet of the evaporation tube of a second evaporator of a second evaporator groups is connected to an outlet of the low temperature vapor generator.

2. The device of claim 1 , wherein the multi stage generator determines a number of the vapor generators according to a temperature of hot water in the hot water supply pipe.

3. The device of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of evaporators are arranged so that a next evaporator utilizes the vapor generated in a front evaporator as heat sources.

4. The device of claim 1 , wherein the multi effect evaporator is arranged horizontally or vertically.

5. The device of claim 1 , wherein hot water in the hot water supply pipe is heated by using a solar heat or a waste heat from an industrial process as a heat energy source.

Assignees

• Kwak Hee Youl
• Yoon Eung Sang
• Joo Moon Chang
• Joo Hong Jin
• Lee Kyoung Ho
• Korea Energy Research Inst

Inventors

• Kwak Hee Youl
• Yoon Eung Sang
• Joo Moon Chang
• Joo Hong Jin
• Lee Kyoung Ho

Classifications

• B01D1/26

  Multiple-effect evaporating · CPC title

• C02F2301/08

  Multistage treatments, e.g. repetition of the same process step under different conditions · CPC title

• C02F2303/10

  Energy recovery · CPC title

• C02F2103/08

  Seawater, e.g. for desalination · CPC title

• B01D3/065 Primary

  Multiple-effect flash distillation (more than two traps) · CPC title