Thermal Desalination

Overview

Multiple Effect Distillation (MED) is a type of thermal desalination. Salt water is heated under pressure and and forced through a chamber. However, in this system the water vapor from the first chamber is used to heat the water in the next chamber (that is under a lower pressure than the previous chamber). Though this pattern repeats throughout several chambers to increase the efficiency of the overall system, the underlying process is trying to use the heat of condensation to heat the next batch of salt water; this produces distilled water.

Umiya Enterprise manufactures MED units that are reliable, robust and with high capacity for industrial use.

The MED units produce a reliable, low-cost stream of high purity water for power plants and industries that can provide low-grade steam as an energy source. The units can be customized as per client requirement and water quality.