In SevGU will test the desalination plant

Employees of Sevastopol State University and Samara State Aerospace University. S.P. Koroleva is developing a new desalination plant, which will get high water quality with a minimum amount of reagents and discharge of salts into the environment.

The territorial unevenness of fresh water reserves makes the development of simple and compact desalination plants an extremely topical direction of research, but high energy costs for desalination do not contribute to their introduction. In this connection, at the first stage, the team of the department “Technospheric Security” carried out an analysis of modern developments in the field of desalination of sea water and distillation of waste water in terms of energy efficiency and equipment complexity, followed by an analysis of methods of preparing and supplying water to a vacuum distillation unit, and connection of the desalination complex to the existing infrastructure.

Within the framework of the second stage of the agreement, the department studied the mechanism and rate of scale formation during vacuum evaporation and suggested the best ways to utilize the brine.

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“We have completed all the necessary research at the moment and now we are waiting for the desalination plant to be delivered to us in Sevastopol in February so that we can conduct full-scale tests,” said Larisa Nikchkova, head of the department “Technospheric Security” at the Polytechnic Institute of the SevGU.

The desalination plant has already been manufactured at the Metallist-Samara plant. Now there are tests of its running mode, debugging of units and details. All the details are exclusively of domestic production. Compared with foreign analogs, it will be more economical and effective, the scientists emphasize.

The desalination system will be installed on the territory of the University in the vicinity of Holland Bay. In an hour the system will be able to process up to 10 cubic meters of salt water. Purified and ready to drink drinking water will accumulate in a special tank, and it can be delivered to the arid regions of the peninsula.

“Under certain operating conditions, this installation allows connection to the pipeline system, and it can be used for the village as a whole,” added Larisa Nichkova.

The desalination plant was developed thanks to a grant from the Ministry of Education and Science of Russia on the theme “Creation of a family of import-substituting energy-saving plants based on the use of innovative technologies for sea water desalination and obtaining distillate from wastewater with a capacity of up to 10 cubic meters per hour.”