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The technology to remove salt and other contaminants from water is now contained in a chip the size of a postage stamp. Created by scientists and researchers at MIT and in Korea, the tiny portable desalination units were created to help provide drinkable water in disaster areas, with a process called ion concentration polarization.
The original three Heat Recovery Steam Generators (HRSG) were replaced with eight standardised pieces of equipment and three new steam turbines that receive steam from the HRSGs via a common header. Three new 202.7MW back-pressure steam turbines were added to supply steam for the desalination units.
Four of the existing Multi-Stage Flash (MSF) desalination units were upgraded to eight million gallons per day each, and 14 Multi-Effect Distillation (MED) desalination units added 3.77 million gallons (14 million litres) per day each. The potable water storage tanks were upgraded to a total capacity of 80 million gallons (300 million litres) per day.
He added that it will take two years for all the desalination units to reach a total of 350 villages. The units are supplied by a US company, and will supply 900,000 people with potable water. d"These stations are set to produce 12 million liters of drinking water on a daily basis,a" the minister said.
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