Presentation by Boey Marchena
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Early Desalination in the Caribbean with a Focus on the Netherlands Antilles
Presented: 08/30/15
Although there is evidence of desalination in the Caribbean as early as the late 17th or early 18th centuries, it was not employed commercially until the development of multi-effect distillation in the mid 19th century. Even then it was rare and sporadic. However the installation of a thermal vapor compression system in Curacao in 1928 initiated ...