INTEGRATED SOLAR THERMAL AND NUCLEAR ENABLED WATER PURIFICATION AND HYDROCARBON REFINING PROCESSES

摘要

Saline waters are made suitable for use in large quantities in petroleum refining operations by evaporative desalination of a water source having a dissolved salt content of at least 30,000 ppmw with the heat liberated during the steam condensation used as low quality heat for petroleum refining operations. Sea water is most suitable for evaporative purification processes.