Muddy River Technologies Inc

The Cyclonic Evaporator (CycloVap*) is a highly innovative, patented, and environmentally friendly evaporator which is set to revolutionize the way evaporators have been perceived within industrial and engineering communities.

While traditionally, evaporators have been plagued by high energy consumption which has often caused them to be financially unviable, they do have relative advantages over other systems designed to allow for water reuse.

Evaporators have the advantage of lower maintenance costs, than membrane systems such as Reverse Osmosis and Nano-Filtration. They also respond much better to fluctuations in the wastewater feed concentration and composition.

The CycloVap* is a unique, new evaporator. Its' design is based on traditional rising or falling film evaporators of the plate or tubular type. Due to greatly enhanced heat transfer coefficients and the ability to handle viscous and scaling materials without the premature loss of performance, the CycloVap* has solved the problem of high energy usage that has plagued other evaporators in the past.

The CycloVap* system works differently to other evaporator systems as it introduces the feed wastewater to the heating tubes in a very unique way. The Inline Swirl Generator (ISG*), another patented ACQUA product, imparts a very high tangential swirl on the incoming feed which causes the liquid to be distributed inside the heating tubes as a very thin film.

The film is able to heat very rapidly with minimal temperature difference due to the high heat transfer coefficients created by the very thin film rotating at high velocity. The heat transfer is further aided by the re-circulation of the non-vaporized liquid from the bottom of the heating tube.

From the heating chamber, the partially evaporated liquid is fed to the separation chamber where it 'flash' evaporates. An overhead duct allows the vapours to be released while the concentrate is pumped away.

To increase system efficiency, the vapour from the first "effect" can be passed to a second "effect" to be used as the steam heating medium. This allows the CycloVap* to develop multiple effects or optionally, employ the use of Mechanical Vapor Recompression.

Mechanical Vapour Recompression allows the CycloVap* to utilize the vapour generated through the evaporation process, and recompress it to form high pressure steam. Hence, the CycloVap* is much more energy efficient, through the creation of little or no fresh steam, and by using significantly less power in the process.

Finally, the steam vapour is condensed in the heat exchanger shells. If water purity is an issue, the mixture can be passed through a carbon filter. This allows for the reuse of the water, which again underlines the economic and environmental advantages of this system. The other output stream is the concentrate, which can be reprocessed or removed depending on the application.