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US 9,988,293 · App. 15/403,294 · Granted Jun 5, 2018

Desalination system and desalination method

Inventors: Yasunori Sekine (Tokyo, JP); Kazuhiko Noto (Tokyo, JP); Akira Sasaki (Tokyo, JP); Kotaro Kitamura (Tokyo, JP)
Assignee: HITACHI, LTD.
C02F9/00B01D61/022B01D61/06B01D61/145B01D61/58C02F1/001C02F1/441C02F1/444C02F3/1273B01D61/025B01D2317/022B01D2317/025C02F3/1268C02F2103/08C02F2303/10Y02W10/15Y02W10/30
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Patent No.
US 9,988,293
App. No.
15/403,294
Granted
Jun 5, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

This desalinization system, which obtains industrial-use water and drinking water from seawater and wastewater, is provided with: a purification device that purifies wastewater by removing activated sludge therefrom; a first RO membrane that removes salt from the output of the purification device by transferring said salt to first concentrated water, thereby producing industrial-use water; a UF membrane that seawater passes through and that removes particulates from said seawater; a second RO membrane that removes salt from the treated output of the UF membrane by transferring said salt to second concentrated water, producing drinking water; an agitation device to which the second concentrated water from the second RO membrane and the first concentrated water from the first RO membrane are sent to be agitated; and a third RO membrane removing salt from the liquid mixture agitated by the agitation device by transferring said salt to third concentrated water, producing industrial-use water.

Claims (7)

1. A sea-water desalination method for preparing industrial water and drinking water from sea-water and sewage water, the method comprising:

producing treated water by removing activated sludge from the sewage water and purifying the sewage water by making the sewage water permeate a purification apparatus;

producing drinking water by making sea-water permeate a UF membrane and a first RO membrane; and

producing a mixture fluid by mixing a first concentrated water removed by the first RO membrane and the treated water; and

producing industrial water by making the mixture fluid permeate second RO membrane,

wherein the drinking water is prepared exclusively from the sea-water.

2. A sea-water desalination method according to claim 1 , additionally comprising recovering at least either of pressure energy of the first concentrated-water or pressure energy of a second concentrated-water removed by the second RO membrane.

Priority Claims (1)
JP 2011-184648 · Aug 26, 2011 · national
Continuity (2)
Division 14232955
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