Floating assembly to convert lake water into irrigation or process water by solar heating of internal water pool, evaporation and condensation

摘要

A floating water treatment plant abstracts water from a lake and renders it suitable for e.g. irrigation. The hull holds a pool of abstracted water which is heated and evaporated to condense on domed baffle plates and draining down curtains to troughs. The pool of water in the hull is heated by a snaked array of heating pipes (12) drawing energy fro e.g. solar radiation. Water is pumped into the hull from the surrounding lake and introduced by a snaked array of perforated pipes (2).