{"id":138,"date":"2017-01-31T21:02:06","date_gmt":"2017-02-01T02:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/?p=138"},"modified":"2017-02-02T14:49:29","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T19:49:29","slug":"salty-concentrate-is-not-a-well-known-key-cost-factor-in-desalination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/salty-concentrate-is-not-a-well-known-key-cost-factor-in-desalination\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Salty Concentrate\u2019 is a key cost factor in Desalination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most of us know that desalination is<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Desalination#Economics\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> expensive <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">but the major chunk of it also is to manage and dispose (<\/span><b>especially inland<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">) the salty concentrate that is a byproduct of the process! Along with the salty concentrate a good amount water goes waste too, so it is not only expensive but we are losing water. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A good improvement of existing solutions and technologies is to reducing the wastage of water in concentrate streams in addition to any ideas to improve the overall desalination process. There is currently a \u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.challenge.gov\/challenge\/more-water-less-concentrate-stage-1\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">challenge run by the Dept of Reclamation<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and is great one chemists out there or for that matter any creative thinkers with knowledge of desalination. For example, instead of dumping the concentrate deep underground, perhaps a creative inventor can come up with a <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">new product\/usage<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that uses the concentrate!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is awesome to read about<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/israel-proves-the-desalination-era-is-here\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Israel\u2019s success<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in desalination, from a severe drought to surplus! Cost wise they are paying less than what residents of LA pay per month. The process and innovation of using <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">lava stone<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, will definitely inspire you to tackle this challenge. Now, go tackle this #ProWoSo<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[Image Credit: Thanks to PublicDomainPictures via <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/en\/users\/PublicDomainPictures-14\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pixabay<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Most of us know that desalination is expensive but the major chunk of it also is to manage and dispose (especially inland) the salty concentrate that is a byproduct of the process! Along with the <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/salty-concentrate-is-not-a-well-known-key-cost-factor-in-desalination\/\" title=\"\u2018Salty Concentrate\u2019 is a key cost factor in Desalination\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[34,35,36,37,38,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-challenge","9":"tag-chemistry","10":"tag-desalination","11":"tag-economical","12":"tag-scarcity","13":"tag-water"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":146,"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions\/146"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pieneers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}