The Deadwood Chemical Company desalination plant will produce up to 800,000 acre-feet of freshwater per year.
It is a useful alternative to reverse osmosis to provide larger amounts of freshwater from seawater at lower OPEX and lower CAPEX. This will be new wet water, not 4th priority water rights.
Deadwood technology is not a variation of reverse osmosis. It is a completely different process. The requirements are different and so are the resulting products. It is a low-pressure process.
The Deadwood process does not produce brine as reverse osmosis solute. Brine can coalesce into “dead-zones” that destroy marine life and make obtaining environmental permits difficult.
The Deadwood process converts salt into basic chemicals that were separated from water; salt products are sold into already established large global markets.
Reverse osmosis uses massive amounts of electricity, the CAPEX of which is not factored into the cost of a proposed reverse osmosis plant. Our process produces a net surplus renewable green marine energy.
The reliability of reverse osmosis is limited. It uses powerful pumps to produce the high pressure needed to force the freshwater through relatively delicate semi-permeable membranes that often fail. The Deadwood process circulates water at low pressures thereby eliminating membrane failure.
The Deadwood process can be applied on a larger scale than reverse osmosis, with up to 800,000 acre-feet per year of freshwater from seawater.