Saline Water Conversion Demonstration Plant Number 1, Freeport, Texas, Volume 1 (open access)

Saline Water Conversion Demonstration Plant Number 1, Freeport, Texas, Volume 1

Report documenting the ongoing progress and economic concerns of Saline Water Conversion Demonstration Plant No. 1 in Freeport, Texas.
Date: January 1963
Creator: Stearns-Roger Manufacturing Company
System: The UNT Digital Library
Design and Construction of a Desalination Pilot Plant, a Reverse Osmosis Process (open access)

Design and Construction of a Desalination Pilot Plant, a Reverse Osmosis Process

Report containing plans for a desalination pilot plant for the purposes of evaluating the feasibility of reverse osmosis for the desalination of sea and brackish water with the capacity of 1,000 gallons of potable water produced per day.
Date: January 1964
Creator: Aerojet-General Corporation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Saline Ground-Water Resources of the Rio Grande Drainage Basin: A Pilot Study (open access)

Saline Ground-Water Resources of the Rio Grande Drainage Basin: A Pilot Study

Report presenting a study to evaluate the saline ground-water resources of the Rio Grande drainage basin of Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas for the potential application as feed water for desalting plants.
Date: 1970
Creator: Kelly, T. E.; Myers, B. N. & Hershey, L. A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development of a Thin-Liquid-Film Membrane Device for Reverse Osmosis (open access)

Development of a Thin-Liquid-Film Membrane Device for Reverse Osmosis

Report issued by the Office of Saline Water over studies conducted on reverse-osmosis plants. The results of the studies are presented and discussed. This report includes tables, and illustrations.
Date: April 1971
Creator: Davies, D. S.; Bemberis, I.; Wong, Chung-ming; Savage, W. F. & Channabasappa, K. C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Secondary Refrigerant Freezing Desalting Process: Operation of a 15,000 GPD Pilot Plant (open access)

Secondary Refrigerant Freezing Desalting Process: Operation of a 15,000 GPD Pilot Plant

Report issued by the Office of Saline Water over the development of the secondary refrigerant freeze desalination process. The process is presented and discussed. This report includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: March 1969
Creator: Ganiaris, N.; Lambiris, J.; Glasser, R.; Hunter, J. A.; Rinne, W. W. & Verikios, S. C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reverse Osmosis for Water Desalination (open access)

Reverse Osmosis for Water Desalination

Report issued by the Office of Saline Water over studies conducted on the reverse-osmosis program. The methods of desalination through osmosis are discussed. This report includes tables, illustrations, and photographs.
Date: May 22, 1964
Creator: Lonsdale, H. K.; Merten, U.; Riley, R. L.; Vos, K. D. & Westmoreland, J. C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Engineering and Economic Feasibility Study for a Combination Nuclear Power and Desalting Plant: Phases 1 and 2 (open access)

Engineering and Economic Feasibility Study for a Combination Nuclear Power and Desalting Plant: Phases 1 and 2

Scope: As defined by the subcontract, Bechtel's responsibility is to determine the engineering and economic feasibility and preliminary design of a combination power and desalting plant using a nuclear energy heat source, which plant shall be deemed suitable for operation by the District by the year 1970.
Date: December 1965
Creator: Bechtel Corporation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development Report Number 9: V.T.E. Process Development, Freeport Test Facility, Freeport, Texas (open access)

Development Report Number 9: V.T.E. Process Development, Freeport Test Facility, Freeport, Texas

Report presenting accounts of testing saline water conversion and the economics thereof. This report covers the fifteenth and sixteenth Development Runs, which evaluated the following: the performance of the plant's double-fluted tube bundle and titanium tube bundle; the condensate handling-restrictions in the 5 effect module; a sump to sump brine transfer system modification; porcelain spray nozzles; enhanced surface tubes; and an oxygen scavenging system.
Date: October 1971
Creator: Campbell, Keith S. & Williams, Donald L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Development of an Improved Solar Still (open access)

Development of an Improved Solar Still

Report concerning the study of multiple designs of solar distillers with the goal of increasing the fresh water ouptut.
Date: March 1962
Creator: Grune, Werner N.; Collins, Richard A.; Hughes, Ross B. & Thompson, T. Lewis
System: The UNT Digital Library
Investigation of the Mass Transfer Properties of Saline Water Systems (open access)

Investigation of the Mass Transfer Properties of Saline Water Systems

From Introduction: "This investigation was undertaken in order to obtain the appropriate property data for both binary and muticomponent salt solutions and to determine the usefulness of the simple Nernst-type equations, compared with more exact flux-driving force equations, for predicting species transport in molecular diffusion processes of importance in desalination research. The following sections present the details of the approaches taken to each of the tasks and the results derived from these investigations. Information less essential to the analysis of the results was included in the appendices."
Date: September 1966
Creator: Richardson, John L.; Getz, Richard J. & Segovia, Gilbert
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Oak Ridge National Laboratory Conceptual Design of a 250-MGD Desalination Plant (open access)

The Oak Ridge National Laboratory Conceptual Design of a 250-MGD Desalination Plant

From Introduction: "This report and the study which went into it form a part of the activities sponsored by the Office of Saline Water, U.S. Department of the Interior, in their accelerated program to develop large plants for the economical desalting of seawater."
Date: September 1966
Creator: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
System: The UNT Digital Library
Conceptual Design Study of a 50 Million Gallon Per Day MSF Desalination Plant and Test Module (open access)

Conceptual Design Study of a 50 Million Gallon Per Day MSF Desalination Plant and Test Module

Report issued by the Office of Saline Water over design studies for a 50 million gallon desalination plant. As stated in the introduction, "this report presents a conceptual design of a 50 MGD multistage flash plant and a conceptual design of a test module based on the 50 MGD plant design and proposed to demonstrate large plant design concepts. The report also includes a discussion of the more important engineering design studies employed in the development of the conceptual designs" (p. 1). This report includes tables, and illustrations.
Date: November 1966
Creator: Fluor Corporation, ltd.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Study of Two-Phase Metastable Flow (open access)

Study of Two-Phase Metastable Flow

From Abstract: "An experimental study was made to determine the flow rate of saturated water through short tubes of various lengths and diameters. Tubes of both rounded and sharp edge entrances were tested in the horizontal and vertical positions. Test results were analyzed and correlated."
Date: November 1966
Creator: Bryers, Richard W. & Hsieh, William S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Use of Waste Heat For Production of Fresh Water (open access)

Use of Waste Heat For Production of Fresh Water

From Summary: "This study has shown that waste heat sources are available at locations where salt or brackish water could be converted into fresh water by the utilization of waste heat."
Date: December 1966
Creator: Gitterman, Henry & Zwickler, Samuel
System: The UNT Digital Library
Engineering Evaluation of Factors Affecting Quality of Water Sources Available for Saline Water Conversion Plants (open access)

Engineering Evaluation of Factors Affecting Quality of Water Sources Available for Saline Water Conversion Plants

Report investing the "effects of contaminated raw water supplies on conversion processes," and studying "potential technical and economic advantages of combination saline water and sewage effluent conversion plants" (p. 1).
Date: December 1965
Creator: Sheppard T. Powell Associates
System: The UNT Digital Library
Saline Water Conversion Demonstration Plant Number 1, Freeport, Texas, Volume 4 (open access)

Saline Water Conversion Demonstration Plant Number 1, Freeport, Texas, Volume 4

Report documenting the ongoing progress and economic concerns of Saline Water Conversion Demonstration Plant No. 1 in Freeport, Texas.
Date: April 1966
Creator: Rogers, C. G.; Kays, D. D.; Born, J. H. & Rhinesmith, R. D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Optimum Brine Heater Outlet Temperature in Sea Water Conversion Evaporators (open access)

Optimum Brine Heater Outlet Temperature in Sea Water Conversion Evaporators

From Introduction & Scope: "This study was undertaken for the Office of Saline Water to determine the optimum brine heater outlet temperature in single-purpose sea water conversion evaporators for several fuel costs, based on balancing the increased performance ratio possible with high-temperature operations against the increased cost of pressure vessels, corrosion protection, and scale control."
Date: April 1966
Creator: Bechtel Corporation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Design Study of A Reverse Osmosis Plant for Sea Water Conversion (open access)

Design Study of A Reverse Osmosis Plant for Sea Water Conversion

Report presenting some of the progress made in saline water conversion so that the data can contribute to the long-range development of economical processes applicable to large-scale, low-cost demineralization of sea and other saline water.
Date: April 1966
Creator: Bray, Donald T. & Menzel, Horst F.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Study of the Disposal of the Effluent From a Large Desalination Plant (open access)

A Study of the Disposal of the Effluent From a Large Desalination Plant

From Introduction and Summary and Conclusions: "The disposal of the effluents from large desalination plants has been studied for two years by the Dow Chemical Company and Texas A. & M. University under contract to the Office of Saline Water. Recommendations are presented on the type, frequency, and intensity of pre-plant oceanographic and biological surveys and of post-plant monitoring and verification surveys."
Date: January 1968
Creator: Le Gros, P. G.; Mandelli, E. F.; McIlhenny, W. F.; Winthrode, D. E.; Zeitoun, M. A.; Pequegnat, W. E. et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Recovery of Salts from Saline Waters Via Solvent Extraction (open access)

Recovery of Salts from Saline Waters Via Solvent Extraction

From Abstract: "This report contains the results of a 15-month study of the chemistry of mixed iconic extractant systems and their possible application to the recovery of by-products from desalination brines."
Date: January 1968
Creator: Grinstead, Robert R. & Davis, J. C.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Large Reverse Osmosis System Technology and Module Development (open access)

Large Reverse Osmosis System Technology and Module Development

From Introduction: "This is the final report on a program of reverse osmosis research conducted for the Office of Saline Water, U.S. Department of the Interior, under Contract 14-01-0001-929. The purpose of the program was the development of larger spiral-wound reverse osmosis modules for economical application in large reverse osmosis systems."
Date: June 1968
Creator: Riedinger, A. B.; Laughlin, J. K. & Sudak, R. G.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation of Concrete and Related Materials for Desalination Plants (open access)

Evaluation of Concrete and Related Materials for Desalination Plants

Report examining the uses of concrete in evaporator-type desalting plants. Different types of concrete are evaluated, as well as structures, accessory coatings and sealants, reinforcement materials, and microstructures.
Date: May 1968
Creator: United States. Bureau of Reclamation.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Operation of Reverse Osmosis Pilot Plants (open access)

Operation of Reverse Osmosis Pilot Plants

From Introduction: "This report includes the sixth segment of a continuing effort begun early in 1963. Purpose of the work is the scale-up of reverse osmosis from a laboratory curiosity to an economical system for the production of potable water from salty feeds."
Date: August 1968
Creator: DeHaven, C. G.; Jarvis, M. A. & Wunderlich, C. R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Vertical-Tube Evaporator Pilot Plant Report, Volume 1, July 1, 1967 (open access)

Vertical-Tube Evaporator Pilot Plant Report, Volume 1, July 1, 1967

Report documenting the ongoing research and developments undertaken at a pilot plant with five vertical-tube evaporators.
Date: July 1, 1967
Creator: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
System: The UNT Digital Library