Co-producing apparatus for salt and fresh water and co-producing method of the same

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PATENT NO 8795531
APP PUB NO 20110303606A1
SERIAL NO

13202927

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An embodiment of the present invention includes: a recycle line that brings a part of salt-enriched membrane separation concentrated water 26 back to the rear flow side of a pretreatment apparatus 12; a water discharge line that discharges the remained concentrated water into a sea area; and a control apparatus 31 that controls to adjust the ratio between the discharging amount of the discharging membrane separation concentrated water to be discharged into a sea area and the supplying amount of supplying seawater. A pH is set to be equal to or less than 7.3 by adding acid 21. The salt 18 is obtained from the dryer 19, and produced water (fresh water) 29 is obtained by combining evaporated water 28 supplied from the evaporator 16 with the permeated water 24 supplied from the reverse osmosis membrane apparatus 25.

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  • MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Ito, Yoshiaki Nagasaki, JP 166 1830
Iwahashi, Hideo Nagasaki, JP 18 39
Kakigami, Hidemasa Nagasaki, JP 11 25
Matsui, Katsunori Nagasaki, JP 24 43
Takeuchi, Kazuhisa Nagasaki, JP 33 140
Tanaka, Kenji Nagasaki, JP 451 5907

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