摘要 |
In a desalination plant (1) comprising an evaporator (2), a separator (3) for separating droplets of brine from the mixture of steam and such droplets produced by the boiling process in the evaporator (2), and a condenser (4) for condensing the steam into freshwater leaving the plant at an outlet (18), the novel feature is that the separator (3) is of a type with "distributed effect", e.g. consisting of a number of cells bounded by zig-zag baffles (24), each such cell performing a separating function. With this arrangement, the flow cross-sectional area and hence the horizontal space requirement of the separator (3) does not have to exceed that of the evaporator (2), in contrast to Prior-Art plants, in which the separator comprised a large inverted dish requiring much space to operate, as the centrifugal separating effect solely took place at its periphery. |