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To: blam

Sounds like you don’t have to boil the water as you do in distillation, so it would require a lot less energy.


9 posted on 07/09/2021 1:57:14 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The latent heat of vaporization doesn’t change.


12 posted on 07/09/2021 2:12:05 PM PDT by TexasGator (UF)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Sounds like you don’t have to boil the water as you do in distillation, so it would require a lot less energy.

Well, they heat it up, maybe not to boiling, but enough to create steam...

From the article:

Water from one side is heated and allows water vapor to pass through the membrane, which is then condensed on the other side.

19 posted on 07/09/2021 2:31:15 PM PDT by Alas Babylon! ("You, the American people, are my only special interest." --President Donald J. Trump)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Actually, if you reduce the air pressure, water boils at a lower temperature. Ships heat the water and then inject a fine mist into a low pressure chamber. The water boils instantly and is drawn off and condensed while the solids fall to the bottom of the vessel.


80 posted on 07/09/2021 9:07:39 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (“Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn,)
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