In the Desalination Process?

Desalination is a separation process used to reduce the dissolved salt content of saline water to a usable level. All desalination processes involve three liquid streams: the saline feedwater (brackish water or seawater), low-salinity product water, and very saline concentrate (brine or reject water).

What happens during the process of desalination?

Seawater is pumped into the desalination plant from the ocean and passes through pre-treatment filtration to remove most of the large and small particles. The filtered seawater is then forced under pressure through special membranes whereby the osmosis process that normally occurs in nature is reversed.

What is the process of desalination called?

desalination, also called desalting, removal of dissolved salts from seawater and in some cases from the brackish (slightly salty) waters of inland seas, highly mineralized groundwaters (e.g., geothermal brines), and municipal wastewaters.