The Deadwood Chemical Company (DCC) is dedicated to be the first environmentally friendly process for the removal of the salt from seawater. Likewise to be the first, to address the high costs associated with today’s outdated desalination processes. With that in mind we addressed, and eliminated those high-cost processes that currently are associated with the practice of large- scale seawater desalination.
Another of those costs was to the environment. The practice of returning of the brine as waste to the ocean, was not an acceptable answer as well. There is a use for the salt products contained in seawater. DCC set out with a process that would re-purpose the salt products, to distribute them into well-established markets this made perfect sense to us.
Brine that is returned to the ocean is at a cost of creating “Dead-Zones” with the increase of salinity through the coalescing, of this continual discharged into the ocean. This disposal creates an area unable to support an eco system, resulting from the heavy salt laden water pooling, and ever growing over time. As this brine water has become too heavy, it sinks, and it will not mix with the waters it is relocated into, without vigorous mechanical agitation.
Another of the costs is to the energy grid. Reverse osmosis can cause brownouts, and create times when the use of high-energy demands are prohibited, such as using life sustaining air conditioning.
The Trade Secret technology achieved the goal in mind, to re-purpose the salt into well-established markets, along with the creation of surplus energy. The process creates a surplus of energy to be returned to the grid from the process involving the salt removal from 800,000 acre-feet of seawater.
For 800,000 acre-feet of desalinated seawater by current reverse osmosis processes, the demand of energy is 24.3 billion BTUs a day. This was quite an undue burden we thought on the energy grid, and this high-energy use was not efficient enough and unacceptable to us.
Deadwood Chemical Company Process
Reverse Osmosis Process
