Portable water purification system integrated to a heat transformer Original Research Article

Water is a natural resource essential for life and for most economic activities developed on earth. Population growth and lack of water in some regions of the world has led humans to design and implement new technologies to use water in an efficient way. Water quality requirements in the industrial sphere are higher everyday. Development of desalination technology through a water purification system integrated to heat pumps has taken more than two decades. Absorption heat pumps use low quality energy in a waste heat form and a small quantity of high quality energy. This characteristic has made possible using these systems in quite a few places. The following work presents the results of the experimental tests applied to a portable water purification system integrated to a heat transformer (TTAPPA), where the low quality waste heat is simulated and LiBr-water is used as a working solution.