| Abstract: | The information is given on the main large stationary desalination units of different types (evaporating, instantaneous boiling) developed in the USSR and used in the design of the largest plant in Shevchenko having the output of 100000 m3/day of distillate; it operates in close interrelation with an atomic thermoelectric БH-350 fast reactor plant and back pressure turbines. Some results are discussed of constantly performed studies into heat transfer, vapour separation, control of scale deposits and corrosion, search for new thermal systems and instruments to be used for the improvement of operating distillation desalination units and development of new ones. Further prospects of thermal desalination are associated with the use of multi-stage units equipped with horizontally-arranged-tube-film evaporators. |
