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Desalination timeline

Key dates defining innovations and breakthroughs within the field of Water Desalination.

  
320 BC Greek philospher Aristotle writes of seawater distillation
70 AD Rome’s Pliny the Elder describes seawater distillation with condensation on fleece
200 AD Greece’s Alexander of Aphrodisias describes seawater distillation with condensation on sponges
975 AD Persia’s Muwaffaq and al-Harawi write that desalination is a suitable method of seawater conversion
1565 French explorer Jean De Lery reports seawater was successfully distilled during voyage to Brazil
1616 Spain’s Pedro Fernandez de Quiros discovers Australia and makes successful use of a small copper still
1675 Walcot files seawater distillation patent in England
1683 Fitzgerald files conflicting seawater distillation patents leading to protracted patent dispute with Walcot
1739 Hales recommends limiting recovery in simple stills to 33% to improve quality and suggests aeration to improve taste
1748 French physicist J.A Nollet describes “osmosis” as the liquid phase separation process using a membrane
1753 Watson and Appleby report on pretreating seawater with bone phosphate and quicklime
1756 Lucas publishes article skeptical of many distillation designs and especially critical of recommended additives
1759 Chapman reports on successful use of emergency seawater still on North Sea voyage
1761 Lind experiments with parabolic mirrors for solar distillation
1772 James Cook begins successful use of seawater still while circumnavigating the world
1790 Thomas Jefferson publishes Report on the Method for Obtaining Fresh Water from Salt
1793 Spain’s Phillip II assembles a crude still producing 40 barrels/day of fresh water while fighting the Turks in Tunisia
1828 Péclet hints at but does not build successful multi-effect evaporator
1843 Rillieux patents builds sells successful multi-effect evaporators
1851 France’s Alphonse Normandy patents first of series of vertical tube single stage seawater stills in UK
1862 Normandy stills installed at US sites in Key West Florida and Fort Pulaski Georgia and in Dry Tortugas
1879 Picard and Weibel describe then patent first mechanical vapor recompression system
1881 Seawater distiller installed on Malta
1885 Wilson designs installs 19 m³/day solar distiller in Las Salinas Chile
1886 Yaryan introduces rising film vertical tube evaporators
1888 Lillie introduces spray-film horizontal tube evaporator with provision for removing non-condensable gases
1895 Mirlees-Watson installs two six-effect seawater distillers in Sudan
1899 Kestner patents first of a series of rising and falling-film long tube vertical evaporators
1900 Addison Waterhouse’s US patent anticipates multistage flash distillation process
1907 Two small land-based seawater plants known as “The Kindasa” (the condenser) installed in Jeddah Saudi Arabia

 

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