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Fresh Water Generator

The document summarizes how fresh water is generated on ships. Fresh water is needed for various purposes like drinking, cooking, and machinery cooling. It is produced through evaporation of seawater using heat from the main engine jacket water. However, this water needs to be evaporated under vacuum since jacket water temperature of 70 degrees is not hot enough. The fresh water generator has two compartments - an evaporator where seawater is evaporated using vacuum, and a condenser where the vapor condenses back into fresh water for collection in tanks. An educator helps generate the required vacuum for evaporation.

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Fresh water generator, one of the important machinery on board a ship, is something
that cannot be done without. Fresh water produced from fresh water generator is used
for drinking, cooking, washing and even running other important machinery which use
fresh water as a cooling medium.

Fresh water is generally produced on board using the evaporation method.

There are two things that are available in plenty on ship to produce fresh water
:Seawater and heat.

Thus fresh water is produced by evaporating sea water using heat from any of the heat
source. The evaporated sea water is then again cooled by the sea water and the cycle
repeats.
Generally the heat source available is taken from the main engine jacket water, which is
used for cooling the main engine components such as cylinder head, liner etc. The
temperature available from this jacket water is about 70 deg. centigrade. But at this
temperature the evaporation of water is not possible as we all know that the evaporation
of water takes place at 100 deg centigrade under atmospheric pressure.

NOTE:Water Jackets are water-filled casings that

wrap around devices that require cooling. Inlet and
outlet vents allow water to circulate. For industrial
applications, Water Jackets are most commonly
found in reciprocating piston combustion engines

Thus in order to produce fresh water at 70 degrees we need to reduce the atmospheric
pressure, which is done by creating a vacuum inside the chamber where the
evaporation is taking place. Also, as a result of the vacuum the cooling of the
evaporated sea water will also take place at lower temperature. This cooled water is
collected and transferred to the tank.
Atmospheric pressure, also known
as barometric pressure (after the barometer),
is the pressure within the atmosphere of Earth.
The standard, or near-average, atmospheric
pressure at sea level on the Earth is 1013.25
millibars, or about 14.7 pounds per square inch

vacuum is a space devoid of air or matter

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