Abstract: Water containing dissolved salt, e.g., sea water, is desalinized by vaporng a part thereof by direct contact with a flame within a closed vessel, e.g., by introducing the water as a spray into a closed vessel onto the flame, removing a gaseous mixture of vaporized water and combustion products, and condensing the water in the mixture within a condenser, while withdrawing unvaporized residual water, enriched in salt, from the bottom of the vessel at a rate to maintain a pool thereof in the vessel.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
May 17, 1974
Date of Patent:
January 20, 1976
Assignees:
Dorian Dodge Crocker, Sherwood Dodge, Jr., Dorian Dodge Robinson, Crocker Nat'l Bank in trust for Dariel Dodge & Betty Dodge Malone
Inventors:
Adiel Y. Dodge, deceased, by Dorian Dodge Crocker, executrix