Chinese Desalination Plant Cuts Energy Use 60% and Turns Brine Into Sellable Salt
Desalination has long carried a double burden. Conventional plants consume between 3 and 10 kilowatt-hours per cubic metre of freshwater they produce, and they leave behind concentrated brine that is costly to manage. A facility in Caofeidian, Tangshan, China, now claims to have solved both problems at once, cutting energy consumption by 60% against the … Read more