Desalination of Sea Water by Multi-Stage Flash

Distillation

Presented by
P.Aparna
B141982
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 Contents:

● Introduction
● What is Desalination
● Available methods
● Multi-stage flash distillation(Flow Diagram)
● Process
● Conclusion
● References

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Introduction

● The water challenge faced by the world can be overcome

by the use of new developments in the field of desalination
of water. Proper utilization of fresh water can be an
effective way for ensuring water for all.

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What is Desalination

● Desalination is a general term for the process that

removes dissolved solids and produce fresh water from
feed waters such as seawater and brackish water.

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 Available Methods

● Reverse Osmosis
● Electrodialysis
● Multi-stage flash distillation
● Solar Desalination and etc.

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Multi-stage flash distillation
(Flow Diagram)
 Process:
● In multi stage flash distillation process, the basic principle is to
heat the saline (sea or brackish) water to a temperature of
about 90–120°C using the heat of condensation of the vapour
produced.
● Then the heated water is then evaporated. The pure water is
then obtained by the condensed vapour produced.
● The temperature and pressure of water increases when heated
in a container, the heated water passes through to another
chamber at a lower pressure which causes vapour to be
formed, the vapour is led off and condensed to pure water using
the cold sea water which feeds the first heating stage.

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 Contd..

● The concentrated salt water is then passed to the second

chamber at the same lower pressure as the first stage and
more water evaporates and the vapour is condensed as before.
● The pro-cess is repeated through a series of chambers .

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 Conclusion:

● Adding more stages in MSF improves its efficiency and

increases water production, but it increases the capital
cost and causes operational complexity
● The desalination of seawater proves to be a reliable
source of fresh water and is proves to be a solution for the
world’s water shortage problem. Desalination processes
are normally used to produce drinking water in areas
where only seawater is the source of water.

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References

● By Manish Thimmaraju, Divya Sreepada, Gummadi Sridhar

Babu, Bharath Kumar Dasari, Sai Kiran Velpula and Nagaraju
Vallepu Submitted: March 5th 2018. Reviewed: May 14th 2018
Published: September 19th 2018.

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