摘要 |
Water mineralization is performed by acidifying water, introducing and mixing carbonates in powder form into the acidic water, generating carbon dioxide in the water and adding turbidity to it. The treated water is then delivered through a reactor 80A with granular carbonates, in which the carbon dioxide in the water dissolves additional carbonates. The reactor acts simultaneously to add further minerals as well as alkalinity to the water, and to remove the turbidity out of the water by dissolving residual powder and filtering non-dissolvable particles. Carbon dioxide is recycled 128 by removing carbon dioxide from water exiting the reactor and introducing the removed carbon dioxide into water entering the reactor. A water mineralization system is also claimed. Preferably, the powdered and/or granular carbonates comprise at least one of: dolomite and calcite. The granular dolomite may be partially burnt dolomite. Water exiting the reactor can be mixed with desalinated water. A pH regulating module 118 may be arranged to adjust a pH of the mixed water by adding a base thereto.
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