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414 K.C. Ng et al.<br />

a<br />

b<br />

Release valve<br />

Condenser<br />

Collection tank<br />

Condensate drainage<br />

Reactor bed<br />

c<br />

Sea water feeding line<br />

Pre-treatment of sea water<br />

Sea water tank<br />

Fig. 9.13. (a) A schematic of a four-bed adsorption desalination plant (40). (b) Pictorial view of a<br />

four-bed adsorption desalination plant in NUS (condenser side view). (c) Pictorial view of a four-bed<br />

adsorption desalination plant (evaporator side view).<br />

4. The evaporator is connected with the adsorbers where the evaporated water vapor is adsorbed by<br />

the silica gel. The heat of adsorption is removed by a coolant from cooling tower during the<br />

adsorption cycle.<br />

5. The desorption–condensation process takes place at the condenser pressure where the desorbers<br />

are heated up to the desorption temperature with an external heat input. The desorbed vapor is<br />

condensed in the condenser, where the heat of condensation is removed by the cooling water from<br />

the cooling tower.<br />

6. The condensate is collected in a collection tank, which is either intermittently pumped out to the<br />

atmospheric pressure or extracted via a 10-m high U-tube.

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