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US
/diˌseɪɫɪˈneɪʃən/
]
[ UK /dɪsˌælɪnˈeɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /dɪsˌælɪnˈeɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- the removal of salt (especially from sea water)
How To Use desalination In A Sentence
- Environmentalists claim the highly saline water discharged from desalination plants could harm marine life.
- Skeptics, however, say nuclear-powered desalination is just a pipe dream.
- The device features low power consumption, big output, high desalination rate and high stability.
- The PX energy recovery device uses the principle of positive displacement and isobaric chambers to achieve extremely efficient transfer of energy from a high pressure waste stream, such as the brine stream from a reverse osmosis desalination unit, to a low-pressure incoming feed stream. SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page
- He believes desalination is part of the answer to Australia's water shortage.
- Guo Youzhi, head of the China Desalination Association, predicts the next five-year economic plan, due this spring, will ramp up incentives for alternative supplies of energy and water and set a target of 2m cubic metres of desalinated water per day, up 150% from current levels. Can the sea solve China's water crisis?
- Solar desalination plants, though requiring a great emphasis on cash rather than labour, seem the best long-term bet here.
- Improvements in utility services, road networks, sewage treatment, and water desalination have resulted in a better quality of life.
- Lying outside the hurricane belt, it receives little rain and must rely on the largest desalination plant in the world to quench the thirst of its population of 150,000.
- The influence on desalination and anti - pollution by the different cross - linking degree of Amphoteric resins was investigated.