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orrk@lemmy.world 1 year agoSo the fun part is, all of what you mentioned, doesn’t matter, because you don’t actually need to get every bit of salt out of the reservoir, so you just flush out a good deal of it with more salt water!
you read this paper and its complexities and assumed that the things mentioned are inherently important to the functioning of the system, but like the Tesla-trucks and acceleration, they really aren’t.
all you need for the system to work is liquid, as long as there is more osmotic pressure pulling the water away from the salt than the hydrogen bonds produce.
low tech, easy to scale, and already being done
assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yes and no. I get what you’re saying. No wash is 100% efficient, nor does it have to be. It’s just going to set the number of runs the unit can do before it needs to go offline for more intensive cleaning. Short run times though lead to more expensive operation. What this work does is increase the run time by more efficiently removing salt.
Do you get what I mean? Long term salt buildup is going to cause problems, and the more slowly you can make that happen, the better.
orrk@lemmy.world 1 year ago
salt is not limestone
assassin_aragorn@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What does that have to do with anything?
orrk@lemmy.world 11 months ago
limestone deposited by water leads to a hard, not easy to remove build up as it will not readily redissolve into any water, unlike salt, that will gladly let its self be dissolved via osmotic pressure until the maximum salinity of water is reached
seawater for example has around 34-35 ppt salt, water is satisfied at around 260ppt, meaning that one saltwater flush of the system will clean out basically all the salt of like 7 prior runs