Mobile salt water distiller
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Title (Dublin Core)
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Mobile salt water distiller
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Subject (Dublin Core)
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en
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Article Title and/or Image Caption (Dublin Core)
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Title: Mobile beachhead unit distills salt water
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OUR overseas forces now are equipped with a
distillation unit that performs the amazing
feat of transforming salt water into drinking
water at the rate of 100 gallons an hour. Built
Dy the Cleaver-Brooks Company, Milwaukee, Wis.
the unit weighs four tons, is highly mobile, and
can be landed from a barge. Its prime mover
generally is a tractor, but a truck also can be
used. Fourteen men and one officer comprise its
operation crew. When it is used on a beach, the
crew drives a three-inch pipe to water level, in-
stead of pumping directly from the sea. This has
a dual purpose: to eliminate trouble from shifting
tides, and to tap water from which foreign matter
has been removed by seepage through sand. The
water is pumped into a 3,000-gallon canvas
sedimentation tank before it is pumped into the
unit. As the “first-effect” boiler begins to fill, an
oil burner underneath is ignited. The resulting
steam, generated in about 30 minutes, is carried
into a “second-effect” evaporator, and then into
a condenser attached to a cooling unit. From
here, water at a temperature of about 50 degrees
F. begins to flow out for consumption.
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Language (Dublin Core)
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eng
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Date Issued (Dublin Core)
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1943-08
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pages (Bibliographic Ontology)
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55
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Rights (Dublin Core)
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Public Domain (Google Digitized)
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Archived by (Dublin Core)
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Matteo Ridolfi
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Marco Bortolami (editor)
Popular Science Monthly, v. 143, n. 2, 1943
