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UZIKOV Vitaly
Engineer, Russia (uzikov62@mail.ru)
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Abstract
Millions of people suffer from a shortage of fresh water: the available resources rapidly reduce their capacity with the growing demand. Shortage of fresh water in several regions of the Earth is becoming a serious problem posing a threat to the mankind evolution and the environment conservation.
Water and energy scarcity are two major global challenges facing modern society. Right now, almost one-fifth of the world’s population is living in areas with water scarcity, and another 1.6 billion people are living in economic water scarcity areas because of technical or financial limitations to getting freshwater even when water is available. So, water treatment techniques employing solar energy are deemed attractive for producing fresh water from impotable water sources, including seawater, river/lake water and contaminated water, by safe and sustainable methods.
Solar-driven desalination in the countries with hot and arid climate can employ abundant and free solar energy to produce freshwater from natural water sources, making this technology a promising one to solve the water scarcity problem.
Besides, solar-driven zero liquid discharge (ZLD) desalination from waste brine water has recently emerged as a new important application of solar evaporation. Compared with conventional ZLD desalination technologies, solar-driven ZLD desalination produces solid salt as the only byproduct and uses sunlight as the only energy source, making it less energy intensive, more cost-effective, and affordable.
This paper considers a concept of a small self-powered solar-driven multi-stage ZLD desalination plant based on film evaporation drums and having a desalination capacity of up to 1100 liters of freshwater per day.
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Dear Andrea, I suppose you have figured out how you will get out more power from a smaller area when it’s needed, like in the case with the Ev. So you don’t have to use a lot of small 10 Watt e-cats I supposed the container material for a 10 W e-cat would take up a to much space, when you know that you will use for example 20kW anyway.
Lars:
We are working on it,
Warm Regards,
A.R.
Dear Andrea,
–2023-05-12 04:25 Andrea Rossi
Lars Olov:
Please formulate your question more precisely,
Warm Regards,
A.R.
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Do you think an e-cat charged EV can continuously maintain highway speeds without needing to stop and charge?
Lars Olov:
Please formulate your question more precisely,
Warm Regards,
A.R.
Dear Andrea,
Have you planned how the E-Cat will charge the EV? Will it be enough to continue driving without charging?
Irina and Vitaly Uzikov:
Excellent paper, very interesting also considering the eon transition that will probably cause fresh water shortages.
Warm Regards,
A.R.
Dear Andrea!
To demonstrate the principle of operation of film evaporation drums involved in a desalination plant, I suggest that you familiarize yourself with the video on YouTube at the link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xdBJkzjHTw&t=262s
E-cat EV can be used to power the drum rotation drives anthe control system of the desalination plant. This is very important because it is desirable to rotate the drums constantly to prevent scale deposits on the walls, even when there is no wind and sunlight.