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New Technology From EFD Corp. Offers Drought Relief with Major Economic and Environmental Benefits
A logical solution to California's water crisis is the removal of salt
from the seawater lapping at its 1,100 mile coastline. Planned reverse
osmosis desalination plants will extract millions of gallons of fresh
water from the ocean; however, they will also exact a lethal price when
toxic, concentrated brine discharge is pumped back into the ocean -
creating marine dead zones. Now there is a new desalination technology
that can produce fresh water economically, in abundance and without
adverse environmental consequences.
This new desalination technology has been invented by Effluent Free
Desalination Corp. - EFD Corp. A mobile demonstration prototype will be
completed by the end of 2015, setting the stage for developing utility
scale facilities. EFD's desalination method can also purify agricultural
ruoff, manufactured water from fracking sites, and the concentrated
brine byproduct produced by reverse osmosis.
The EFD system borrows from traditional distillation technology, but
with two drought-fighting improvements. First, the EFD technology avoids
scale buildup, which damages desalination machinery, by separating the
heating and vaporizing processes and using pressure to raise the boiling
point to eliminate scaling. Second, through a super-heating process, the
water is instantly separated into fresh water steam and salt crystals.
Drinkable water is condensed from the steam and commercially valuable
salt is recovered. Leftover brine is recirculated through the system.
Nothing is returned to the ocean.
"California's legacy of innovation has built our state into the world's
role model for high tech success. Now it can use that same innovative
spirit to lead the world out of a global water crisis," said EFD
President and CEO Robbi S. Magnuson. "The difference - Silicon Valley's
technology defined the future. Our technology can save it."
Based in North Highlands, California, EFD holds U.S. and international
patents on its desalination technology. For more information, visit www.efdcorp.com.
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