Engineering Creativity Award: Magnetic Field Desalination

工程创意奖：磁场海水淡化

• 批准号: 8811613
• 负责人: Paul Jennings
• 金额: $ 8.94万
• 依托单位: Florida Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1988
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1988-09-01 至 1991-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8811613&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Engineering; Creativity; Award; Magnetic; Field

This research project is concerned with the desalination of seawater on an industrial scale at low operating costs compared to conventional methods. Methodology involves the fields of nuclear power, superconductivity, and reverse osmosis, Superconductors have the capability to generate extremely high magnetic fields at low cost. The principles of nuclear reactors are used to trap ions in a magnetic field away from the containing walls allowing the water to be desalinated to run directly through the center of the magnetic field. After the seawater passes through the magnetic field the impurities are reduced by approximately one order of magnitude. A modified reverse osmosis unit which operates on the centrifuge principle generates high pressure to desalt seawater form brackish water to drinking water. The separation phase provided by the high magnetic field brings the water to brackish water standards and reduces the high osmotic pressure barrier that needs to be overcome to desalinate seawater by reverse osmosis. All of the various aspects resulting from the above concepts will be studied and a system will be suggested which will make possible a desalinization process that is efficient and inexpensive.

该研究项目与传统方法相比，以低运营成本以低运营成本的工业规模脱盐。 方法论涉及核能，超导性和反渗透的领域，超导体具有以低成本产生极高的磁场的能力。 核反应堆的原理用于将磁场中的离子捕获到远离包含壁的磁场中，从而使水被淡化以直接通过磁场的中心运行。 海水通过磁场后，杂质减少了大约一个数量级。 在离心机原理上运行的一个经过修改的反渗透单元会产生高压，使海水形成咸水的水向饮用水。 高磁场提供的分离阶段将水带来了咸水标准，并降低了高渗透压屏障，需要克服，通过反渗透通过反渗透来为海水脱盐。 将研究由上述概念产生的所有各个方面，并将提出一个系统，这将使可能有效且廉价的脱盐过程成为可能。