ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,221,360, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Bechtel Energy Technologies & Solutions Inc. (Houston).
"Low energy ejector desalination system" was invented by Jorge T. Aguinaldo (Tampa, Fla.), Joseph P. Kanzleiter (Houston), David Ladd (Sugar Land, Texas), Saurabh S. Tonapi (Katy, Texas), Baki E. Goktepe (Houston) and Mukesh K. Shah (Houston).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for treating a raw wastewater feed stream using a low energy ejector, which works as a heat pump to increase the pressure and temperature of a two-phase distillate stream used, in part, to heat the raw wastewater feed stream. The systems and methods ut...