Water is becoming an increasingly valuable commodity, with population growth demanding more and more amounts of this limited resource. Increased efforts are directed toward recycling and remediation, as well as desalination of the large quantities of seawater available. Dr. Bertwin Langenecker was a pioneer in utilizing hydrodynamic cavitation in a variety of applications that would remove dissolved solids from water and other liquids. His combination of intense cavitation using a rotor-stator combination, as well as simultaneously adding an adsorbent, demonstrated impressive results in desalination and waste water remediation. In this presentation, a description will be given of Dr. Langenecker's technology as well as a sampling of some of his most impressive results. Speculations as to why this approach works as well as it does will be presented.
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2 June 2013
ICA 2013 Montreal
2 - 7 June 2013
Montreal, Canada
Biomedical Acoustics: Session 2aBA: Bubbles Bubbles Everywhere I
June 02 2013
A method for desalination and water remediation by hydrodynamic cavitation
Lawrence A. Crum;
Lawrence A. Crum
Center for Industrial and Medical Ultrasound, University of Washington, Applied Physics Laboratory, Seattle, WA 98105
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Proc. Mtgs. Acoust. 19, 075028 (2013)
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Received:
February 04 2013
Accepted:
February 04 2013
Citation
Lawrence A. Crum, Michael Skinner, Scott Zeilinger; A method for desalination and water remediation by hydrodynamic cavitation. Proc. Mtgs. Acoust. 2 June 2013; 19 (1): 075028. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.4800921
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