Phosphorous Desalination

What might be a thought is to use a phosphorous screen and remove every other phosphor. If the phosphors were to vibrate at a low Hz, then they may make salt ions believe that they are dense concentrations of salt. If so, then salt should stay away from the filter as salt likes to evenly disperse in solute.

Any suggestions for testing would be welcome. While I am not able to pursue such an idea, someone who is interested in advancing desalination might be.

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1. James, are you working on this concept?

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   1. Aamir, I am hoping to be able to work on it later this year. There are a couple of different idea's I would like to try.

2. One thing I think will decrease the cost of desalination is vacuum. Most people would say that it would inhibit the flow of water. it would not. Since water will outgas at 29.02 hg's of vacuum if it is 24.4C, a little lower vacuum should increase the flow rate through a membrane. There is something I believe would allow for this which I call Negative Excitation. You see, when atmospheric gasses are expanded to about 28 times their size by increasing the size of an air chamber, the gas molecules will become much more excited while having less mass/energy than their state requires. As a result, water molecules should constrict in opposition and lose about all of their adhesion and cohesion. This should allow a centrifugal type pump to easily draw water through a membrane. And because of the vacuum, a control valve to limit the amount of water being drawn into the system would be needed. And what might save on cost is if pressure heads are used to generate the vacuum. The intake and discharge would cancel each other out meaning little energy would be needed to move the water through the system. And if a vacuum pump is not available to maintain the vacuum, then 2 other pressure heads could alternately be pumped down and refilled to maintain vacuum while allowing for some outgassing.